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GENE SIMMONS To Launch 'Sexercise' Workout Video: Clip Available

"Extra" was at a recent casting call for KISS bassist/vocalist Gene Simmons' new workout video, "Sexercise" (sex + exercise = sexercise. Get it?). "The idea is to do something that makes you look sexy and is also a workout," Simmons explained, with his 13-year-old daughter, Sophie, sitting next to h...

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STRAPPING YOUNG LAD: 'The New Black' Tentative Track Listing, Studio Report Available

Canadian extremists STRAPPING YOUNG LAD have set the tentative track listing for their new album, "The New Black", due in July 2006 via Century Media Records. The follow-up to last year's "Alien" was recorded at the Armoury and Profile studios in the band's hometown of Vancouver, British Columbia an...

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KISS Members To Be Inducted Into LONG ISLAND MUSIC HALL OF FAME

Original KISS members Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons and Peter Criss will be among the first inductees in the Long Island Music Hall of Fame. Over the next two years the Hall will be honoring artists or groups that were either born on Long Island, or resided on Long Island for a significant portion of t...

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GENE SIMMONS Desperate To Get His Hands On KISS COLA Bottle?

According to a posting at lKissNews.de, KISS bassist/vocalist Gene Simmons is desperately trying to get his hands on a French Kiss Cola bottle, which Coca Cola in France sent out to some people in the media for promotional purposes in a limited quantity (approximately 500 pieces). The bottle is one...

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GENE SIMMONS' Longtime Lover To Publish 'Kiss And Tell' Book In May

According to KissKollector.com, KISS bassist/vocalist Gene Simmons' longtime girlfriend Shannon Tweed's long-awaited book "Kiss and Tell" is scheduled to be published in May 2006 via Phoenix Books. The list price for this 192-page hardcover book – with a foreword by Gene himself – is $ 24.95. Appara...

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GENE SIMMONS: 'My Life Is An Open Book'

Rod Harmon of the Sarasota Herald-Tribune recently conducted an interview with KISS bassist/vocalist Gene Simmons. The question-and-answer session follows: Q: Why are you coming to [the Sarasota Film Festival], and what are you going to be doing once you get here? Gene: Well, first of all, "Funny Mo...

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SHADOWS FALL Drummer Jams With DREAM THEATER In Connecticut

SHADOWS FALL drummer Jason Bittner has issued the following update: "Last Wednesday (March 29) Matt [Bachand, guitar], Jon [Donais, guitar] (and their ladies) and I headed out to Wallingford, CT to catch the DREAM THEATER 20th anniversary show!! As some of you might now, Mike Portnoy (DREAM THEATER...

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JUDAS PRIEST Turn Down Reality TV Gig

Starpulse.com is reporting that JUDAS PRIEST have snubbed the opportunity to appear in a reality TV show because they fear it will cast a shadow over their other achievements. The British heavy metal legends weren't willing to risk being ridiculed, despite the success of shows such as "Rock School"...

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KISS: Original Marvel Comics Super Special Painting To Be Auctioned

The original KISS cover art painting for Marvel Comics Super Special with graded CGC copy of the same issue is being auctioned off on eBay this Friday, March 31 beginning at 12:00 PST. Painted by Alan Weiss and Gray Morrow, this wonderful artwork, accomplished with mixed media, was used for the wrap...

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MICHAEL ANGELO BATIO: New Audio Interview Posted Online

TalkingMetal.com has posted episode 53 of their "Talking Metal" podcast. The episode features a brand new interview hosts Mark Strigl and John Ostronomy conducted with legendary guitarist Michael Angelo Batio as well as an interview Ostronomy conducted with Yngwie Malmsteen last fall. In the intervi...

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KISS Featured On 'Legends Of Heavy Metal & Rock' DVD Set

According to KissKollector.com, Icestorm Entertainment in Germany is releasing a three-DVD box/digipack on the history of heavy metal and rock, entitled "Legends of Heavy Metal & Rock". The 500-minute documentary features KISS, BON JOVI, POISON, DEF LEPPARD, DAMN YANKEES, SCORPIONS and others. K...

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GENE SIMMONS To Wave Flag At Today's INDY Race In Miami

Sarah Talalay of Sun-Sentinel.com has issued the following report: NASCAR might be more fitting his KISS persona, but Gene Simmons is all about Indy these days. The KISS founder and his business partner, Richard Abramson, a veteran Hollywood marketer, film producer and talent manager, who together f...

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KISS-Themed Coffeehouse On Track For Spring Opening

Dawn Bryant of MyrtleBeachOnline.com is reporting that the first KISS Coffeehouse is getting ready to stir it up at Broadway at the Beach, with an early May debut planned. Brian Galvin - the man behind this latest, and one of the most unusual, creations for the famed rockers - was in town last ...

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Original ANTHRAX Singer To Guest On 'The Vault Of Metal' This Wednesday

Neil Turbin, the original voice of ANTHRAX, will appear on "The Vault of Metal" this Wednesday, March 22, 2006 with DJ Raven the Devil at 9 p.m. (EST) / 3 a.m. (CET). Turbin will talk about his new band NEIL TURBIN'S DEATHRIDERS' upcoming album, "A Fate Worse than Death", and will be taking live req...

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GENE SIMMONS Named Grand Marshal Of Honda Grand Prix Of St. Petersburg

Waving the checkered flag at this year's Honda Grand Prix at St. Petersburg will be none other than venerable entrepreneur and rock legend, Gene Simmons, it was announced on Monday (March 20) by event officials. Watch on Sunday, April 2 (live on ESPN at 3:45 p.m. EST) as Simmons kicks off the second...