KISS Schedules Las Vegas Concert

KISS will perform at the The Pearl Concert Theater at The Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas on Friday, August 29, 2008 at 8:00 p.m.

KISS is currently celebrating 35 years of rock 'n' roll domination on its record-breaking European tour where shows in Helsinki, Finland and Oslo, Norway sold out less than one hour after tickets went on sale and fans in Stockholm, Sweden bought all 32,000 tickets in just 20 minutes. KISS has added only a few U.S. summer tour dates, including their stop at The Pearl. In honor of its 35th anniversary, the band plans to play its "Kiss Alive" album in its entirety as well as a few surprises and rarely played live KISS classics.

Tickets for KISS are $153.00 and $303.00, plus any additional service fees and go on sale Saturday, June 21, 2008 at noon. Please visit any Ticketmaster location, call 702-474-4000 or visit www.ticketmaster.com to purchase tickets. The Pearl Box Office is open from noon to 7 p.m. daily. Doors will open at 7:00 p.m. and showtime is 8:00 p.m. The Pearl is home to Miller Lite Live, presented by Cricket Wireless; for more information on upcoming concerts, please call 702-942-6888.

Metal Hammer has posted video footage of KISS' Download Festival press conference, which was held on Friday, June 13 at Donington Park, Leicestershire, UK. Watch the eight-minute clip below.

On the topic of whether KISS plans to ever record new material, bassist/vocalist Gene Simmons stated, "This is something that's been asked everywhere we go. In all seriousness, it's unfortunate, the record industry is dead, it's six feet underground, and unfortunately, the fans have done this they've decided to download and file-share, there's no record industry around, and we're gonna wait until everybody settles down and becomes civilized and as soon as the record industry pops its head, we'll record new material." Guitarist/vocalist Paul Stanley added, "The truth is we have no plans to record. The reason we don't record is because any classic band that hits the road, the last thing you really wanna hear is their new songs. Everybody says, 'Go out and do a new album,' but if you put on a live DVD of any classic band, turn off the sound and I'll tell you when they're playing a new song it's when everybody sits down. So everybody says, 'Go do a new album,' but who goes to see the STONES to hear a new song? Who goes to see MCCARTNEY, THE WHO; who goes to see any of the classic bands to hear new songs? If you're playing a new song, that means you can't play a classic song. So, really, what's the point?"

Asked if there is any truth to reports that there is going to a TV show to find new members of KISS, Paul Stanley replied, "That kind of got blown a bit out of proportion. There is a always a chance Because we're KISS, we define ourselves by all the rules we bring we're not like other bands. Is there a chance of doing a 'KISS II,' so speak? Sure. But it's not gonna take the place of KISS if we were to do it. We're in the midst of our most successful, biggest tour of Europe ever this is the most successful tour we've ever done, bar any of the past 35 years. So we have no plans to stop. What we do outside of being a touring band, it's up for grabs. We don't live within the boundaries of other bands. They wish they could be KISS; we don't wish we could be them."