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Words & Images by: Tracy Nunnery KISS :: 11.22.09 :: Oracle Arena :: Oakland, CA KISS :: 11.22 :: Oakland, CA If you show anyone in the world a photo of KISS , it's pretty likely that they will tell you right away who it is.

Mini Kiss: They can't play, but they're cute. Details: Kiss is scheduled to appear Tuesday, December 1, at Jobing.com Arena in Glendale.

Kevin Waschuk scored a big coup for garage guitarists everywhere who fantasize about playing with their favourite rock band.

ROCK legends Kiss will slap on their make-up to play their first gig in Scotland for 17 years.

FIVE years later and Kiss is still at it! Admiring the crowded stadium it would not be far-fetched if Gene Simmons or Paul Stanley hid out among their fellow Kiss Army troops.

Say what you will about KISS, but even after all these years, the face-painted foursome is still provocative.

Do you think the guys in KISS give a flying fart that they actually look even more ridiculous in 2009 than they did back in the glory days of 1975? Despite steadfast denials from the band, rumours have persisted for decades that KISS is actually a secret acronym for something.

Fireworks, concussion bombs, fog and pyro are a normal part of most big rock concerts these days.

Kiss was never a band that required much use of the mind. Saturday night at Target Center, though, the makeup-wearing rock icons' success depended entirely on mindset.

There was no lack of sweetly surreal moments at Saturday night's Monsters of Folk show, from a ninja assassin swaying gently to a soft ballad to a 6-foot rabbit trying to hump Gene Simmons' leg.

Gary Kelly , Southwest's chief executive, was made up as Kiss rocker Gene Simmons for a recent Halloween.

All things music from the Tennessean.com entertainment staff. Click to see a photo slide show fromA KISS Even with Halloween just a few days away, there was no question why the freaky makeup-wearing masses had descended on lower Broadway in Nashville.

DOUGLAS man Kriss Lane was recently crowned Kiss Kwizz Champion by UK radio station Planet Rock.

Gene Simmons unfurls his tongue as he and Paul Stanley, right, give the crowd exactly what it came for.

So if Randy Simms can get himself into a load of hot water with some people, then we can only wait and watch to see what will happen to Gene Simmons for uttering these bon mots - among others - about his partner, Shannon Tweed: Look, it's the 21st century, and the thing women have been clamouring for is finally upon us: you're free.

Those grease-painted glam lords of campy metal are at back at it. Thirty-five years after their first album , Kiss has just put out "Sonic Boom ," a new studio disc that's being sold exclusively next to the Cheerios and Windex at Walmart stores nationwide.

Ask Gene Simmons, and he'd tell you that rock and roll musicians do it for the money and the girls.

Tomorrow's Kiss show at Hampton Coliseum brings mixed feelings for many loyal soldiers in the Kiss Army.

The Kiss bassist on his ego, his Playmate, his surprisingly normal kids, and his very traditional parenting style Famous for onstage blood-spitting and tongue-waggling, the Kiss bassist and singer also appears in a hit reality show, now in its fifth season, with actress and former Playboy Playmate Shannon Tweed and their two children.

The veteran rocker has managed to avoid succumbing to addiction by avoiding alcohol and drugs altogether since finding fame as the bassist for the hard rock band.