KISS DAY will take place on May 12th (Saturday) at Oca in São Paulo: a whole day dedicated to KISS with live concerts from tribute bands KILLERS and Rock Soldiers. You'll also have the chance to have the make up of your favorite KISS member on, plus a never-seen-before DVD projection of our KISS Fest I !!!"

The event programming leaves nothing to be desired to any true KISS fan, being also a unique opportunity to visit the memorabilia exhibit and to know a little more about this musical genre that makes our heads spin! Let´s meet, take a bunch of pictures and have many talks among all members (as any true hardcore KISS FAN would) !

Schedule: Saturday May 12th, 2012 Oca - Ibirapuera Park - São Paulo Timetable: 11 AM: DVD projection of the unseen-before KISS Fest I (2007) 3 PM: KILLERS Tribute Band 7 PM: Rock Soldiers Tribute Band

So put on your costumes and "Welcome to the Show"!! BRAZILIAN KISS ARMY - BKA!! BRAZIL..

Cinthia Mendes, Ricardo Lopes and Márcio Augusto!!!

LETTERS

I recently went out for the Expert Field Medical Badge. On one of the last tests in the exercise I decided I wanted to use war paint to rep KISS since the following platoons decided to do the traditional boring camo. After I painted my face, 3 other buddies decided to aid me in making the band. What was our motto when our platoon was called to attention? "I WANNA ROCK AND ROLL ALL NITE....and party everyday." It was a big hit. Your band rocked out before my generation and you're still rocking through my generation!

PFC Harriel

ps- yes I did get the badge!

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Check out these great KISS tattoos! Thanks to the KISS Army for sharing them with the band. Please keep sending KISSonline your KISS tattoos, artwork, letters and photos!

Check out this great photo spotted on the KISS ARMY Norway fan site. Looks like the Norwegian KISS Army is getting ready for KISS' Kollen Festival show in Oslo, Norway on Saturday, June 30th, 2012!

Check out KISS in this new "Adopt the Arts" video along with Steven Tyler, Jane Lynch, Matt Sorum, Macaroni, Johnathon Schaech,Tony Okungbowa, Shay Carl, Epic Lloyd, Hiimrawn, Davin Dell'osa, Wayne Hoffman, and the awesome artwork of Mary Doodles!

It is the mission of Adopt the Arts Foundation to bring together well-known artists, public figures, and the general public to save the arts in America’s public schools. Adopt the Arts Foundation is dedicated to improving the academic performance of every child through the gift of making art and music to our public school students.

Go to www.adoptthearts.org if you want to help get it back.

KISS IS EVERYWHERE!

Hello KISS!

Here are a few pics from an extremely popular TV show here in Malta.

Each week a theme is chosen and last week the theme was KISS!

The producers contacted me (obviously knowing that I’m a super KISS freak) and I provided guitars and boots from my collection.

The programme was fantastic and the girls looked great – and at one point I had to but in and get my pic in there !!!! :)

A true fashion tribute to the rock gods KISS !

Njoi

Gianni / Malta

By Andrew Barker

Last week, Kiss co-founder and frontman Paul Stanley was busy preparing for an upcoming co-headlining tour with Motley Crue, just after putting the final touches on the group's studio record, "Monster," which is due out this fall and will be inevitably followed by yet another tour.

By now, this is all old hat for the 60-year-old arena rock veteran. Yet as staunchly stratified as Kiss' flashpot-and-greasepaint-aesthetic has become, the group seems set to enter its 40th anniversary year in 2013 amidst a music industry that has in many ways reformed into the band's own image.

Though no longer attempting to stay abreast of every change in the musical weather, -- as it did with disco and glam metal in its middle period -- Kiss has managed to keep its name in the pop music conversation admirably well, slotting in on "American Idol" and launching a previous co-headlining tour with Aerosmith. Yet what's perhaps most remarkable is the degree to which Kiss' longtime operating procedure -- aggressive multimedia licensing and an overall reliance on touring over record sales -- has positioned the group for the industry upheavals of the last decade.

The band has a catalog of 3,000 officially licensed, branded Kiss products, and recently signed a worldwide licensing deal with Hello Kitty owner Sanrio. (Kiss beer, coffins and condoms have also recently joined its immense catalog of apparel and toys.) Of course, Kiss' uber-capitalist stance was once regarded as anathema to the countercultural spirit of rock and roll, yet given the explosion of music branding, licensing and marketing agencies over recent years (as well as such ventures as Dr. Dre's Beats by Dre electronics line and David Guetta's new sponsorship platform), the band's gung-ho branding approach now seems to rival only George Lucas' "Star Wars" merchandising deals in its prescience.

"Our credibility is defined by our own criteria, and we are as credible as we are profitable." Stanley said. "It's undeniable that the (non-traditional) revenue streams can be enormous, and to not maximize your potential outside of music would be absurd. It is the music business, and the business element doesn't negate or detract from the other end of it. We're a band, and we're a brand. And without one, the other suffers.

ARCHIE MEETS KISS COLLECTOR'S EDITIONS IN STORES NOW!

The biggest band in rock history invades Riverdale! When the Archies find their town overrun by monsters because of a spell gone wrong, can rock legends KISS save the day? Sabrina the Teenage Witch is also featured adding a magical touch to this epic crossover. Prepare for the craziest match up in Archie history since Archie Meets The Punisher! This collects all four parts of the storyline, reprints of the variant covers by Francesco Francavilla, and a foreword by Gene Simmons. The hardcover Collector's Edition also contains 48 pages of extras not found in the regular trade paperback edition including a KISS photo gallery, the original pitch and script and other bonus material! A must-have full-color edition for KISS and Archie fans alike!




Written by Alex Segura, art and cover by Dan Parent.
Hardcover, 160 pages; trade paperback, 112 pages

Both Collector's Editions are available at retailers and online stores.

KISS IS EVERYWHERE!

Hello KISS FANS,

KISS IS EVERYWHERE!!!! My daughter Lauren sent me this picture of a "KISS Terrier" mural from Austin Terrier Restaurant in Austin, Texas.

Take Care,
Michael L. Aldana

LETTERS

KISS IS EVERYWHERE!!

Thanks to our friend Stig Karlsen for sending us this subtitled video clip from the Norwegian family game-show AMIGO GRANDE. The show aired yesterday on NRK in Norway. Tribute band K.I.S.S. rocked the show, and the real KISS surprised a young contestant!

A big Congrats to Karis & Martyn from the UK, who were married at "The Hotter Than Hell Wedding Chapel" at KISS by Monster Mini Golf, Vegas on Thursday. May your lives continue to Rock!

Illustation: DAVE CROY/THE WORLD-HERALD

The following are excerpts from a story By Michael O'Connor / WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER

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You also can cruise with groups like Lynryd Skynryd and KISS — bands that have been around a few decades but still draw passionate fans ready to rock and roll all night.

Convenience is a big part of the music cruise appeal.

Head to your local arena for a concert and you'll face some hassles: heavy traffic, long bathroom lines and driving home after a night of partying.

Step on a music cruise and your favorite bands, drinks, food and bed are all right there.

The cruises also give fans a chance to connect with musicians in a way they can't in a 15,000-seat arena, said Ben Ferguson, spokesman for Sixthman, which organizes cruises for 311, KISS and dozens of other artists from Lucinda Williams to Weezer.

Paul Sanne of Norfolk, Neb, jumped on a KISS cruise with his wife last fall and will never forget the concert on the first night. The band, including original members Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley, walked onto a stage in jeans, boots and no makeup. The musicians told the crowd how pumped they were to join the cruise, thanked the fans and ripped into songs like “Hard Luck Woman.”

“It was more personal,'' Sanne said. “You could tell they were having a good time.”

Another concert featured KISS in full makeup. Sanne, 45, loved that the band played not just hits, but B-side songs fans might not hear at a typical KISS concert.

The topper?

On the third day of the cruise, he and his wife, Michelle, posed in a group picture with KISS. The couple had a few moments to tell the band how much they loved the vacation. KISS member Simmons told them he was up for another cruise, and stood behind Paul and put his hands on his shoulders for the photo shoot.

By Kiran Hefa
Photo by Jared McMillen

Wayde King and Brett Raymer have worked on their fair share of impressive fish tanks, but a recent addition to their resume introduced them to some very special collaborators.

"It was pretty painless," Raymer says of working with Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley of KISS, who came out to admire their handiwork at the grand opening of a KISS-themed miniature golf course in Las Vegas, where the duo built a tank bearing the band's logo.

The structure is just one of many the pair, who are also brothers-in-law, construct in the newest season of Tanked, which airs Saturdays at 9 p.m. on Animal Planet. Later this week, King and Raymer will head to the home of 30 Rock star – and noted animal lover – Tracy Morgan to install a shark tank.

Gene Simmons visited and half the city showed up.

He not only offered interviews, but accompanied by his wife Shannon Tweed, covered the Historical Center, came to the Palace of Government and had a brief meeting with the President Ollanta Humala.

As published in the web edition of El Comercio, the legendary bassist of KISS' tour was to film an episode of 'Gene Simmons Family Jewels', his 'reality' TV show, dedicated to our country.

Around 10am in the morning, Simmons came to the district of Lima, visited the Golden Palace, attended the changing of the guard of the Hussars of Junín and met with the President, who was accompanied by first lady Nadine Heredia.

"The whole world loves Peru; its food, its women, its history. This is not a small country in a small continent. This is a modern country in the twenty-first century that would impress anyone," said Simmons to ElComercio.pe