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Kiss

December 2023

  • Kiss

    Kiss unveil digital avatars at final ever show: ‘We can be forever young and forever iconic’

    A towering, high-tech version of Kiss took over from the band at Madison Square Garden, created by the team behind Abba Voyage

September 2023

  • Incoming AFL CEO Andrew Dillon with KISS members at a promotion event before the grand final

    Sportblog
    From the Killers to Kiss: grand final entertainment will forever be hit and miss

  • Kiss Live in Birmingham<br>For Guardian live music review. Rock band Kiss play live at the Resorts World Arena at the NEC in Birmingham as part of their End of the Road Tour 5th June 2023. Pictured are band member and bassist Gene Simmons in concert. Photo by Fabio De Paola

    Gene Simmons on Kiss, sex and calling it quits: ‘As long as your schmeckle works, you feel immortal’

June 2023

  • Eating hellaciously well at Hellfest festival, France.

    Slipknot and a chilled muscadet? Hellfest, the metal festival that’s also a gastronomic paradise

    With its wine and oyster pairings, lobster rolls, oozing cheeses and metal-themed supermarkets, Hellfest has turned the small French town of Clisson into a foodie destination for metalheads
  • Gene Simmons playing in Birmingham on Monday during Kiss’s End of the Road tour

    Kiss frontman Gene Simmons given tour of parliament by DUP’s Ian Paisley

    American rock star enjoys ‘controlled chaos’ of Angela Rayner and Oliver Dowden facing off at deputy PMQs
  • An excuse to drool ‘blood’ … Gene Simmons of Kiss playing in Birmingham.

    Kiss review – typically explosive end to rock’s silliest band

    The solos are dull, the banter crass, the songs often lacking in interest – and yet Kiss’s final tour is also a barrage of amazement

October 2022

  • The Beatles pose for an early group portrait backstage in 1962. Left to right: Ringo Starr, John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison.

    ‘My teenage hormones were raging!’: stars salute the Beatles’ Love Me Do at 60

    It confused Gene Simmons, inspired Judy Collins and changed one pop star’s mum’s haircut. Here, musicians recall the impact of the Beatles’ debut single

August 2022

  • KISS, performing live in Toronto, Canada in 2019

    Kiss’ final tour review – a glorious, absurd triumph from kings of rock’n’roll theatre

    In their final Australian tour, Kiss bring bombast and pyrotechnics to the masses with clown costumes, fake blood and leg-breaking heels

June 2022

  • Bringing the 90s back … Jonathan Davis of Korn.

    Download festival review – monster metal weekend roars back to full volume

    At capacity again after two years of Covid, jubilant crowds greet showstopping turns from full-glam Kiss to musically flashy Iron Maiden and the fury of Bleed from Within

October 2019

  • Clockwise from top left: Alice Cooper, Misfits, Insane Clown Posse, Attila, Kiss and Mayhem

    Kiss, Misfits, Mayhem: which metal band has the scariest makeup?

    With Halloween looming, Tobias Forge of Ghost ranks rock’s most menacing faces

July 2019

  • KISS, LIVE, 2019

    Kiss review – rock's cartoon characters say final farewell … again

    Under reams of confetti and pyrotechnics, the face-painted rock gods have enough bangers to go out with a bang

June 2019

  • The Ramones

    Music gave me something to believe in – and kept me alive

  • Rocketman

    Punch-ups, overdoses and Riverdance: why Hollywood can’t resist an evil rock mogul

December 2017

  • Gene Simmons sitting on a bank safe

    This much I know
    Gene Simmons: ‘I’ve never got high or drunk in my life’

    The musician and Kiss frontman, 68, on what he learned from his mother, what capitalism means to him and why he’s so proud of his hair

November 2017

  • Gene Simmons pictured in New York earlier this month.

    Gene Simmons banned for life from Fox News over his behaviour

    Kiss frontman reportedly barged in on a meeting where he exposed his torso to staffers, mocked their intelligence and told lewd jokes about Michael Jackson

June 2017

  • KISS perform at the O2 Arena in London, 31 May 2017

    Kiss review – bombast and nostalgia from a slick, monetised hit machine

    After Gene Simmons waggles his tongue for the 100th time, it feels as if you are humouring a beloved grandad’s party trick – then paying them

July 2016

  • 2009 Toronto International Film Festival, Toronto, Canada - Sep 2009<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Canadian Press / Rex Features ( 1005198e ) Michael Caine 2009 Toronto International Film Festival, Toronto, Canada - Sep 2009

    Shortcuts
    From Michael Caine to Whoopi Goldberg: how celebs chose their stage names

    Born Maurice Micklewhite, the star of The Italian Job has legally changed over to his stage name. But where did he get it? And what about Joan Crawford and Bono?

May 2016

  • Gene Simmons: ‘I’m totally against advertising who I want to vote for, and I haven’t made up my mind, quite honestly.’

    30 minutes with …
    Gene Simmons: ‘I still fly up to the top of the rafters and spit fire’

  • Gene Simmons … admits he was not in the right.

    Gene Simmons apologises after calling Prince's death 'pathetic'

April 2016

  • "Machete Kills" - Los Angeles Premiere - Arrivals<br>LOS ANGELES, CA - OCTOBER 02: Gene Simmons arrives at the "Machete Kills" - Los Angeles Premiere at Regal Cinemas L.A. Live on October 2, 2013 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Steve Granitz/WireImage)

    Gene Simmons says NWA in Rock & Roll Hall of Fame is like Led Zep in Rap Hall of Fame

    As the rap stars are inducted, NWA’s MC Ren tells the Kiss guitarist: ‘Hip-hop is here to stay. Get used to it’
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