KISSasylum.com wants to wish the Catman a very, very Happy Birthday!

Here’s an interview with Peter from last summer with Tim Sullivan, producer for the Movie Detroit Rock City. Peter and Tim go over their mutual love of horror films and magazines – surprising it being more of Peter’s than Gene’s bag.

Paul Stanley’s appearance on VH1’s Rock and Roll Fantasy Camp is now available online in it’s entirety. Paul mentors, interacts and then plays on stage with the Rock and Roll campers. Quite a fun piece of video. If you missed this, it is worth checking out.

Gene Simmons joins the late Christopher Hitchens for a lively debate about the Vietnam and Cold wars in this classic two-part clip from May 2001 on Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher.

Ken Hess | ZDNet

Gene Simmons and Ken Hess get together to discuss the Ortsbo communications software program.

Listen to the Gene Simmons podcast interview here.

A few days ago, I had the rare pleasure of interviewing Gene Simmons: Father, husband, entrepreneur, musician, businessman extraordinaire and Ortsbo partner along with Ortsbo President, David Lucatch. Ortsbo is an exciting new service that translates, in real time, your tweets, Facebook updates, chats, texts and more into whatever language you need to communicate with. You may remember my previous post, “Ortsbo: Return to Shinar,” where I described the Ortsbo service and what it can do for you.

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Revolver

Gene Simmons named among the top 100 greatest living rock stars of today. Not sure where the other three rank on this list, but you’ll have to buy the issue to find out as it is not published online.

York Dispatch

LOS ANGELES—A Connecticut man affiliated with the Anonymous hacking group was arrested Tuesday on federal charges for an attack on a website belonging to Kiss bassist Gene Simmons, authorities said.

Kevin Poe, of Manchester, Conn., made his initial appearance Tuesday in federal court in Hartford, Conn., and was released on $10,000 bond. An email message left for deputy federal public defender Deirdre Murray was not immediately returned.

Poe was indicted in Los Angeles on two counts: conspiracy and unauthorized impairment of a protected computer. If convicted of both, he faces up to 15 years in prison.
Poe and others linked to Anonymous conducted a “denial of service” attack over a five-day period last October against Simmons’ computer systems, sending tens of thousands of electronic requests designed to overload the server and render www.GeneSimmons.com useless.

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Peter Criss
Peter Criss has made a set of 25 autographed photo’s available for sale to help people in need this holiday season. 100% of the proceeds will be going to a family who lost their home and everything they owned due to a house fire. Peter thanks you, the Kiss Army and KISSasylum.com for your help in helping this family.

Click the link below for more info on how you can purchase these photos and in doing so donate to a good cause.

Peter Criss autographs at KISSmuseum.com

KISSmuseum.comDo you want long, sad faces on Christmas or do you want your online KISS Christmas shopping delivered as fast as humanly possible? KISSmuseum.com guarantees delivery before Christmas for all U.S. orders placed before December 20, (we will also offer overnight shipping after that date for last-minute shoppers). All orders go out in less than 24 hours – we are working 7 days a week all this month!

Visit KISSmuseum.com for all your KISSmas shopping!

The 1987 Classic song Crazy Crazy Nights has been re-vamped by vocalist Sun for Moon for the current 2011 Smirnoff ad playing on TV, online and in theaters. A very different take on the original, but very well done…

Gene gives his feelings in a street interview about Madonna and other singers who lip sync their performances. Can’t say we blame him and his candid response makes us realize how we have come to accept such crap unquestionably.

TMZ

Madonna has no business performing at the Super Bowl … this according to legendary KISS frontman Gene Simmons, who thinks the game would be better off with a “real band.”

Simmons was leaving Boa in Hollywood last night when we asked how he felt about Madge headlining the Super Bowl halftime show — to which Gene sarcastically replied, “I love all karaoke singers, I love all the girl singers who get up and sing with tapes … shame on you!”

Gene added, “By the way, Madonna’s terrific … I hate the tapes.”

It seems like KISS has unsurprisingly and once again been snubbed by the politics of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame…

Pollstar

Scott Legato / RockStarProPhotography.com

The Rock Hall released its list of inductees for 2012 today, naming Guns N’ Roses, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Donovan, The Faces / Small Faces and Laura Nyro among the honored, while ignoring folks such as Joan Jett And The Blackhearts, Heart, WAR, and The Cure for the career-spanning honor.

But perhaps the two bands most overlooked by the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame are KISS and Rush. At least, that’s what their fans will tell you.

Every year the Hall announces its new inductees and every year fans of both bands take to online message boards to voice their displeasure. In fact, of the first five comments posted on Pollstar.com this morning in reaction to the Rock Hall’s announcement, four noted the absence of the Canadian power trio, with one reader calling today’s announcement “the yearly Rush diss.”

Chris Epting | Noisecreep

Nick and Sophie Simmons, offspring of the newly married Gene Simmons and Shannon Tweed made some news recently when they debuted their first performance together in Canada last weekend at the River Rock Casino Resort as part of the Grey Cup Festival.

As Rockstar Weekly covered it, “Who would have thought that the offspring of Playboy Playmate Shannon Tweed and KISS demon Gene Simmons would hit the stage at the River Rock Casino as a viable lounge act? Nick and Sophie Tweed-Simmons performed four shows this weekend in Richmond, BC in their official singing debut. The duo, who performed for about an hour each, played classics mostly dating from the ’40s to ’60s from such artists as Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, The Jackson 5 and Cab Calloway.”

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Our friend Rutger from Holland sent us this amazing clip from the recent KISS Expo in Holland. Says Rutger,

“Ik beloof, dit is de laatste spammer mbt de expo van vorig weekend. Maar deze is dan ook wel heel cool en moet je gezien hebben… Kiss drummer Eric Singer spreekt een aankondiging in voor onze band, Kiss on the Rocks. Voor wie het herkent, dit is het befaamde ‘you wanted the best, you got the best’ intro dat Kiss zelf altijd voor een show doet. Alleen nu dus speciaal voor Kiss on the Rocks”.

I don’t know either, but the clip speaks for itself. Eric Singer introduces the tribute band KISS on the Rocks before they go into an exciting rendition of DRC. Eric’s expo appearances are always an event in themselves. His participation and interaction with the fans is something everyone  remembers for years to come and his current string of European KISS expos are no exception.

Sam Dunn at the 2011 NY/NJ KISS Expo

An amazing and important 11 part documentary has somehow gone under the radar for most KISS fans, which embarrassingly includes us here at KISSasylum.com. VH1 Classic’s Metal Evolution series episode #2 appropriately opens up at the 2011 New Jersey KISS Expo as film maker and narrator Sam Dunn begs the question, “What are the origins of American Metal and how do we get to KISS?” Most importantly this show includes current 2011 interviews with Peter Criss and Ace Frehley as well as amazing concert footage from the early days.

Episode #2 has already aired but luckily is now downloadable from iTunes in case you missed out. But hang on, because an inside source has revealed to us KISS will be even more prominently featured on episode #9, Shock Rock, which airs January 21, 2012.

Metal Evolution Teaser – 50s (VH1) from Banger Films on Vimeo.

Johnathan Hardick | The Express-Times

It’s a very Scooby-Doo issue of “Archie Comics” No. 627 when the rock band Kiss comes to Archie’s home town of Riverdale to stop a group of monsters from turning everyone into mindless zombies.

“Archie Meets Kiss Part 1: Riverdale Rock City” was released Wednesday.

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CBR TV | CBR News Team

The confusion of KISS’s collaboration with Archie Comics is put to rest here as CBR TV explains why it’s not at all unusual considering KISS’s extensive past history with the comic book industry.

Though they may be known for their blood-spewing theatrics and hard rock riffs, the leaders of chart-topping band KISS also have a long legacy in comic books — one that continues today with “Archie Meets KISS,” the four-part story that launched this week in “Archie” #627. In celebration, Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley showed up in the CBR TV Studios in LA earlier this week (sans makeup) to discuss the project and their long-standing connection to the comics medium.

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Monster Mini Golf

The upcoming KISS-themed Monster Mini Golf of Las Vegas wants you to be part of the permanent decor. Submit your photo before the opening in early 2012.

To commemorate the launching of the first KISS By Monster Mini Golf, you the fans, of this legendary band have an opportunity, for a limited time only, to become immortalized as part of the décor.  The Kiss Fan Paper will be created with photos sent in by KISS fans doing what they do best, showing us their “KISS”.

The walls of the venue will be adorned with
admirers and will take on a new meaning for the
“place to be seen.”
To learn how to become immortalized “Forever”
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