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ACE FREHLEY: 'Greatest Hits Live' Cover, Track Listing Revealed

The track listing has been revealed for the new ACE FREHLEY (ex-KISS) compilation titled album, "Greatest Hits Live", due on January 24, 2006 via Megaforce Records. According to a press release, this CD "represents some of the best work from legendary KISS guitarist Ace Frehley during the period aft...

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DEMIRICOUS Hard At Work On Debut Video

Indianapolis-based death/thrash metal band DEMIRICOUS are currently working on their debut video for the track "Vagrant Idol" with acclaimed director Dale "Rage" Resteghini (HATEBREED, MUDVAYNE, ILL NINO, SHADOWS FALL). Co-directing is Resteghini's protégé Frankie Nasso (SWORN ENEMY, DANNY DIABLO, A...

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Original KISS Guitarist To Co-Host 'Merry KISSmass Special'

Original KISS guitarist Ace Frehley will be co-hosting the "Merry KISSmass Special" with Eddie Trunk on December 23. The show will be heard live between 11:00 p.m. and 2:00 a.m. on Q104.3 FM in New York City as well as streamed live at www.q1043.com. It will be heard on all other outlets the ...

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YNGWIE MALMSTEEN And RICHIE SAMBORA Were Asked To Audition For KISS In 1981

According to Kiss Kollector Online, both Richie Sambora and Yngwie Malmsteen recently stated in interviews that they were asked to audition for KISS. The two guitarists are believed to have been contacted by KISS around 1981 when Ace Frehley was too incapacitated by drugs to play with KISS any longe...

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Give Me the Fear

Produced by the same guy who brought you THE DARKNESS, and already hyped to the rafters by the ever-fickle U.K. press, London denimboys TOKYO DRAGONS are yet another band pulling the mirrored shades, leather vests, and moustaches so ironic they hurt, all in the name of "real rock and roll". The thin...

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KISS Guitarist Helps Elementary School Students Form School's First Full Band

The Oregonian is reporting that KISS guitarist Tommy Thayer presented 12 new musical instruments to the students of Oregon's W.L. Henry Elementary School to boost the school's band program from three members who provide their own instruments — two clarinets and a flute — to a full-force 15-piece ens...

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Their Rock Is Not Our Rock

I've never understood the big deal about FIREBALL MINISTRY. The quartet is a solid rock band with a decent sense of melody, but they aren't the saviors of rock and roll. Maybe I haven't been exposed to enough of the music on previous releases (though I did recently see a strong live performance from...

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Judge Allows Lawsuit Against KISS Bassist GENE SIMMONS To Proceed

Samuel Maull of Newsday.com has issued the following report: A woman who claims to be a former girlfriend of KISS rocker Gene Simmons can proceed with a defamation lawsuit in which she says he made her sound like a "sex-addicted nymphomaniac" during a VH1 television show, a judge has ruled. State Su...

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IGNITE Frontman Starring In 'Quadrophenia' Production

According to PunkNews.org, IGNITE frontman Zoltan Teglas will be appearing in the upcoming production of THE WHO's "Quadrophenia" later this month at The Grove in Anaheim, California. Teglas will be playing "Ace Face" — the character played by Sting in the film version of the rock opera. "Ace Face"...

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Holy Hell

Thanks to labels like SPV and Candlelight, albums like "Holy Hell" that would have once been consigned to import purgatory are seeing the light of day in the USA (albeit months after their release elsewhere). And thank the metal gods for it! Former IMPELLITTERI and AXEL RUDI PELL vocal powerhouse Ro...

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MOTÖRHEAD's LEMMY To Address Welsh Assembly On Drug Abuse

MOTÖRHEAD frontman Lemmy Kilmister has accepted an invitation by Tory Welsh assembly member William Graham to address the assembly on drug abuse. The 59-year-old singer will give his talk on Thursday (Nov. 3) — before a gig in Cardiff. "Frankly, young people are more likely to listen to him," Graham...

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Muscle, Guts and Luck

Unabashed shitkicker rock and roll from Boston. LAMONT are one of those bands that's rattling around the country in a bombed-out van at any given moment, en route to a gig for 26 people at a broke-dick bar in Nowheresville, living that particularly no-hope strain of the rock and roll dream, sleeping...

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MOTÖRHEAD: 'Stage Fright' DVD To Receive U.S. Release In January

SPV USA has set a January 10, 2006 release date for MOTÖRHEAD's 30th anniversary DVD, entitled "Stage Fright". A four-minute trailer for the DVD has been posted online at this location (Real Media). "Stage Fright" was recorded during a show at the Phillipshalle in Düsseldorf on December 7, 2004. The...

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Recap Of ACE FREHLEY's Appearance At SOBER TEENS FESTIVAL

Kiss Kollector Online has posted the following recap of original KISS guitarist Ace Frehley's at the third annual Sober Teens Festival on Sunday (Oct. 16) at Carmel High School in Carmel, New York: "[On Sunday], Ace Frehley visited the annual Sober Teens Festival at Carmel High School in Carmel, NY,...

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Classic MOTÖRHEAD Albums Receive Special Treatment

In celebration of three decades of one of the most underrated, influential and downright noisy bands to ever walk the face of the planet, Sanctuary Records will be issuing commemorative, 30th anniversary editions of some of MOTÖRHEAD's most important and memorable albums, as well as a collection of...