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Ace Frehley, the wild Spaceman of Kiss who played guitar in the band throughout their Seventies heyday and again during the reunion period in the Nineties, inspiring an entire generation of musicians to pick up the instrument along the way, died today in Morristown, New Jersey. He was 74. Lori …

Kiss’ Gene Simmons is recovering at home after crashing into a parked car while driving in Malibu Tuesday, Oct. 7. According to NBC 4 Los Angeles, the accident occurred before 1 p.m. local time on a stretch of the Pacific Coast Highway. Simmons reportedly told deputies from the Los Angeles …

Kiss, Sylvester Stallone, Gloria Gaynor, George Strait, and English actor Michael Crawford will receive the Kennedy Center Honors at a Donald Trump-hosted ceremony in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 8. This is the first Kennedy Center Honors since President Donald Trump took over as chairman of the prestigious Kennedy Center earlier …

Kiss co-founders Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley —who will be among this year’s Kennedy Center Honors recipients after Donald Trump‘s takeover and populist revamping there —haven’t had much to say about the president during his second term. But before that, they were fairly vocal about Trump, with opinions from Simmons, …

In unexpected casting, Nick Jonas will apply the Starchild makeup and strap on the guitar to portray Paul Stanley in an upcoming Kiss biopic. According to Deadline, Jonas will also provide his own vocals on Kiss‘ Stanley-sung classics in Shout It Out Loud, an authorized, McG-directed biopic about the Rock …

Peter Criss will emerge from a long period of inactivity this year with the release of his first album since 2007’s One for All. “I want to let the Kiss Army and all my rock fans know that my new ‘rock’ album will be coming out this fall,” Criss tells …

Did you really think Kiss were done? Only 481 days have passed since the group, which has reunited several times, played the last date of their End of the Road World Tour — a concert they billed as “The Final Concert” and monetized with a pay-per-view stream — and the …

Gene Simmons partook in one of the most venerable local television news traditions we have: celebrities doing the weather report. On Thursday, the Kiss frontman stopped by Fox 11 in Los Angeles to join — and repeatedly neg — meteorologist Adam Krueger for the weekend weather report. The segment opened …

After a judge warned they might have something to lose after all, Kiss frontmen Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley have settled the wrongful termination lawsuit brought by the iconic band’s longtime hairstylist. The “Nothin’ to Lose” musicians were speeding toward a Jan. 22 trial when lawyers on both sides informed …

A judge is urging Kiss rockers Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley, music manager Doc McGhee, and Kiss’ touring company to consider settling a lawsuit brought by the famed band’s longtime wig stylist over alleged mistreatment on tour. The lawsuit, first filed in February 2023, alleges Kiss deprived plaintiff David Mathews …