Here's the Ohio KISS Army at last night's show in Cincinnati!



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Shout It Out Loud; Legendary Rock Group KISS and ACC Network Will Rock 2012 ACC Football

Multi-Platinum Selling Group’s Single “Hell or Hallelujah” Will Kickoff ACC Network Telecasts



Legendary multi-platinum group KISS will rock ACC Network telecasts of Atlantic Coast Conference football, it was announced today by Raycom Sports. Through this partnership of rock royalty and premier college football, KISS’ new hit single “Hell or Hallelujah” will set the tone for the kickoff of each week’s syndicated game.

Rock legends KISS is the juggernaut of them all having already broken box office records set by The Beatles and Elvis. Their 40-plus year history includes -- 28 U.S. gold albums, the most gold records for any American rock band, 40 million sales in the U.S., and a total exceeding 100 million worldwide. Their 20th studio album MONSTER will be released October 16, The band’s first single from MONSTER, the full-throttle, autobiographical rocker “Hell or Hallelujah,” immediately went #1 on the iTunes rock charts in the U.S., and numerous countries around the world including Australia, Finland, Norway, Sweden and more.

KISS returns with Monster, a 12-track, straight-ahead rock ‘n’ roll album features collaborations among all four members - including co-founders Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons and longtime members guitarist Tommy Thayer and drummer Eric Singer - in an album that shows the band at the top of its game.

“We are honored to have KISS open our ACC football telecasts,” said David Barringer, producer for Raycom Sports. “KISS’ music and college football go hand in hand. They are part of the fabric of America and American culture. Their pure, high energy music is going to be a great addition to our games.”

KISS leads a star-studded list of performers featured in Raycom football and basketball telecasts over the years, including Rascal Flatts, Brooks & Dunn, Jason Aldean, Daughtry, Sugarland, Alison Krauss, Chris Brown, Lil’ Mama, T-Pain, David Cook and Ricky Skaggs.

If you think all Minnesota Kiss fans are 40- or 50-somthings, you'd be wrong, Frank Vascellaro reports

KISS appears on the cover of the new issue of Metal Hammer Norway. The issue features an interview with Gene Simmons and Eric Singer from the Norwegian Kollen Festival.

Here's KISS with the Minnesota KISS Army at the SOLD OUT State Fair show in Minneapolis last night!



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My 5 year old son is a HUGE KISS fan. He had his KISS themed birthday party back in April and he was able to experience his first (and hopefully not last) KISS concert last week in Concord. He felt like a rockstar walking around with the boots we made him for the show and the make up his sister put on him. The kids loved the concert and it was just as exciting to experience their first KISS concert with them, as it was for me seeing KISS for the first time about 32 years ago.

Joey Vela

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KISS IS EVERYWHERE!

Check out the Demon walking down the street with music legend Bob Dylan in his new video for the song "Duquesne Whistle!"

Thanks to our friend Fabio from Deuce News for sending KISSOnline the sighting!

Hey guys,

Just a quick note to let you know what a great night my boy and I had yesterday at the show in Denver. I've lost count of all the KISS concerts I've been to over the years but last night was my 5 year old son's first and we will both remember it for the rest of our lives. When you first took the stage, he looked at me wide eyed and said, "Whoa Dad, KISS is so loud they shake the Earth - this is awesome!" It's nice to know that when I spend money to watch you live, I will always get my money's worth - and then some!

Derek and Dalton KISS fans for life!

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Here's KISS with the Missouri KISS Army at the packed Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre in St. Louis last night!



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Here's KISS with the Oklahoma KISS Army at the SOLD OUT BOK Center in Tulsa last night!



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State Fair: It's KISS. It's Motley Crue. For these brothers, it's destiny.

By Ross Raihala

Tim Meyer was "blindsided" by the news.

"I was completely shocked," he said. "I had goosebumps. Within seconds, I called my brother."

What was the fuss? Two of rock music's most flamboyant bands -- Kiss and Motley Crue -- had just announced a joint summer tour, with a show booked at the Minnesota State Fair Grandstand on Wednesday, Aug. 29.

"It felt like nothing else mattered now," said the 36-year-old welder from Plymouth. "There's nothing that can top this concert."

For Tim Meyer and his older brother Brian, it won't be just another night of music under the stars. Instead, it's a rare convergence of the men's near-lifelong passions. Brian, 41, fell for Kiss as a second-grader growing up in Faribault. A few years later, Tim discovered Motley Crue.

"We shared a bedroom and I put up my Kiss posters on one side, and he put his Motley Crue pictures on the other side," Brian said. "We wanted to cover all the walls, and when we did, our mom said, 'OK, pick one and the rest go down.' "

But that wasn't the end of the Meyer brothers' obsessions. If anything, it was just the beginning.

Brian now lives in Owatonna with his wife and 18-year-old son. Not only did he hold on to all the Kiss memorabilia from his youth, he continued to add to the collection. He bought his current house in 2001, specifically because it had room for him to create a Kiss museum in the basement.

Here's KISS with the Colorado KISS Army in Grand Junction last night!



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by Chris Epting

Just one band could pull this off – the biggest book in the land, KISS! The KISS Monster Book, that is.

This new large-size (three feet long by two-and-a-half-feet wide) limited edition collection features 40-years of KISS with an intimate collection of 127 photographs by world-renowned rock photographers, including rare and never-before-seen images sourced from the band's own archives.

The massive book is a collector's goldmine, with just 1,000 copies available and individually signed, dated and numbered by the four members of the current lineup. Printed in high-definition links by one of the world's finest limited-edition and large format printers, each copy has been hand stitched-and-bound in Italy, by the same binder used by The Vatican.

As vocalist/guitarist Paul Stanley joked recently, "This book is way beyond my expectations. The photos are incredible at this size. It's not a coffee table book, it's a coffee table!"by Chris Epting

KISS IS EVERYWHERE!

KISS are appointed 'Games Masters' for the BBC's alternative Olympics! The 'Rock Games' is a musical version of the Olympics where rock & pop stars go head to head at 'silly' versions of Olympic sports.

Gene Simmons & Paul Stanley of KISS as 'Games Masters' will be delivering the rules of the games to stars such as Slash!

See the rock legends introduction here:http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00wrq7m

The full series can be viewed here:http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00wrqrk

Thanks to Paul from KISSin' UK for sending KISSOnline the link!

Here's KISS with the Oregon / Washington KISS Army at the Sleep Country Amphitheater in Ridgefield, Washington (just outside Portland, Oregon) last night!



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