The 7-Eleven chain of stores now offers these nice Kiss Dr. Pepper cups. These are available at 7-Eleven stores all over the US. If you live outside the US you can now buy the cups at Ebay. Check this out here.
After some intense internet rumors Lady Gaga finally got to meet Kiss. This took place backstage before the show at PNC Center in Holmdel a few days ago. Lady Gaga has published these photos on her Twitter page. Eric Singer has also published some photos on his webpage.
The English Classic Rock Magazine has revealed the nominees for this year's Classic Rock Roll Of Honour. Kiss are nominated in the categories Album Of The Year and Band Of The Year.
On Monday (August 16th) the official Kiss 2011 calendar will be released. Amazon has now published some photos from the calendar. Here you can see the January picture. The calendar can now be ordered here.
As mentioned here yesterday, Kiss has recorded the Wings song "Venus And Mars" for an upcoming Paul McCartney tribute CD. Today Kissonline has mentioned this as well so this is now confirmed and official.
August 31st sees the release of the new Kiss compilation CD "Kiss Icon". This is a double disc and this is not to be confused with the 4-CD set "Kiss Icons" that was released in 2008. The new compilation can be pre-ordered here.
Bruce Kulick reveals on his webpage that he will go to Australia to take part in the AIMS show in Melbourne October 2nd and 3rd. He will also hold a guitar clinic at Allans Music in Sydney October 4th.
There is a rumor about Kiss recording the Wings song “Venus and Mars” for an upcoming Paul McCartney tribute album. This rumor got extra strength after The Weekender mentioned this. Here is a quote from the interview that was published today (August 11th):
“We don’t talk about acid rain or who’s going to save the whales or what political party you should vote for — we don’t care about that. Most people yawn when they start to hear that,” bassist/vocalist Gene Simmons told the Weekender from Los Angeles where the band was recording “Venus and Mars” for an upcoming Paul McCartney tribute album.
The music inluded in the upcoming Madden NFL 11 game has now been revealed. "Rock And Roll All Nite" is included in the game, together with tracks from bands like AC/DC and Guns N' Roses.
The German company RME has published a fourteen minute long film about the recording and producing of the Simfy Live recordings that have been available at the latest Kiss tour. Watch this interesting documentary (in two parts) here:
Shannon Tweed has published these two private photos on her Twitter page showing Gene during Tommy Thayer's Golf Tournament and the prize for "World's Worst Golfer" that Gene won...