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Rolling Stone ranks KISS' 1974 self-titled debut as the band's best album. Here's why the classic record still influences ...

And in the early 2000s, Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons, the leading figures and main songwriters in Kiss, were asked to name ...

Say what you want about Kiss, but there's a reason they've become one of the most influential and best-selling rock groups in music history. Through their unforgettable onstage set designs and special ...

The explosive concert favorite never charted, yet it became one of the band's defining rock anthems.

A famous and frequently bootlegged 1976 Kiss concert is finally getting an official release. Kiss Destroys Anaheim ’76 ...

Released in honor of the gig’s 50th anniversary, ‘KISS Destroys Anaheim '76’ captures the hard rock band’s largest show up to ...

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Kiss‘ career has been quite the roller coaster ride, with more ups and downs than most bands could survive. Some of those low points have been the result of self-inflicted wounds. Over the years Paul ...

If you want to know who played which instruments on a Kiss album, the liner notes will probably not tell you the complete story. “A lot of the Kiss records, the way things are done is that sometimes ...