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Hello KISS fans everywhere!  I hope your summer has been a great one.

Yes it's winding down, but the good news is that the bigger & better NEW JERSEY KISS EXPO is back, on Saturday September 8th from 12-8pm in Edison, NJ!  Special guests are PETER CRISS (!), BRUCE KULICK, BOB KULICK and more!!

As always, KISSROCKS.net will be there - so come by our tables to check out our vast collection of vintage & 80s KISS merchandise, or just to say hi.

It's only 5 days away so make your plans to attend NOW!  Visit www.njkissexpo.com to purchase tickets and to get all the info you need for this awesome event. Do not miss it!!

and oh yeah, 'Rock on!'

See you next Saturday @ the Expo,
Jon
www.kissrocks.net

Destroyer: Resurrected is currently available at Amazon for the bargain price of £6.65 inc postage. You can order a copy from Amazon here.

KISS are appointed 'Games Masters' for the BBC's alternative Olympics! The 'Rock Games' is a musical version of the Olympics where rock & pop stars go head to head at 'silly' versions of Olympic sports.

Gene Simmons & Paul Stanley of KISS as 'Games Masters' will be delivering the rules of the games to stars such as Slash!

See the rock legends introduction here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00wrq7m

The full series can be viewed here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00wrqrk

Shannon Tweed tweed yesterday that Gene Simmons Family Jewels hadn't been picked up by A&E for the new series. However, someone then replied to say that a rescue was in the works. Not sure what is going on now, but the following statement from Gene on Ultimate Classic Rock looks pretty conclusive:

"Reality TV viewers won’t have Kiss frontman Gene Simmons to kick around anymore.

After seven seasons — leaving it with a longer run than ‘I Love Lucy’ or ‘The Honeymooners’ — ‘Gene Simmons Family Jewels’ has received its pink slip from the A&E Network. While the show never drew huge numbers, it was a genuine ratings phenomenon for the cable network, which has seen its profile rise considerably in recent years, largely thanks to the notoriety that tends to come with pointing a camera at Gene Simmons.
 
“For seven great seasons, Gene, Shannon, Nick and Sophie have been part of the A&E family, and we could not be more proud of the unparalleled run of ‘Gene Simmons Family Jewels,’” the network said in a statement originally issued exclusively to the Hollywood Reporter. “On behalf of everyone at A&E, we’d like to thank the production team at Thinkfactory Media, Gene and his amazing family for their partnership, collaboration and for opening up their lives, warts-and-all, to us throughout the years.”
 
According to Simmons, the decision to end the show stemmed from the ever-popular “scheduling conflicts.” In their own statement, the Simmons family responded, “With Kiss on tour and with my other business commitments, we have decided to draw the final curtain on our show … This is not the end of our story, it’s the beginning of a new chapter.”

Examiner.com have published the following article with the full track list for Monster:

The track list for Monster, the highly anticipated 20th studio album from legendary rock band Kiss, was revealed on Tuesday. The album will be released on Oct. 16 and is promised to be one of the band's best. The full track list is
 1.Hell or Hallelujah
 2.Wall of Sound
 3.Freak
 4.Back to the Stone Age
 5.Shout Mercy
 6.Long Way Down
 7.Eat Your Heart Out
 8.The Devil Is Me
 9.Outta this World
 10.All for the Love of Rock & Roll
 11.Take Me Down Below
 12.Last Chance
 13.Right Here Right Now

Full article can be read here.

J.M. Blaine, non-fiction editor at the L.A. literary website The Nervous Breakdown. has sent details of an interview they have done with Chuck Klosterman
on KISS. You can read the first of the 3 part series by clicking here.

There's a KISS article in the Daily Mail today which talks about the Monster book, knee ops and, er, hip replacements. Read it at the Daily Mail site

The Express printed the following article on Sunday:

ROCK BAND Kiss, of the heavily made-up faces and extravagant costumes, have unveiled their latest release, a book entitled Monster. It weighs a suitably monstrous 4st and, when opened, measures 5ft wide.
“A band that is bigger than life deserves a book that is bigger than life,” says singer and guitarist Paul Stanley to cheers from the assembled media. “Size does count,” adds Gene Simmons, the bassist with the legendary long tongue and Lothario reputation. “It is the Rolls-Royce of books,” he says, explaining how each tome is hand-bound, and goes on to describe the fanatical devotion of the sort of fan likely to cough up the necessary £2,700 to acquire a copy of Monster as “Kisstianity”.

“It sounds cultish but some people have dedicated their lives to Kiss,” says drummer Eric Singer.

 So do they worry that fans may take their ardour for the band, who have sold more than 100 million records worldwide since forming in 1972, too far? “Well,” says Simmons, “Eric has someone stalking him right now.”

Kisstinianity, he says, “is a religion of sorts, only without anybody having to die for anybody else’s sins.”

Hell Or Hallelujah is up for consideration as one of Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week, to vote please go to their new redesigned website: http://tinyurl.com/cxvvf62

Voting closes Friday, July 13 at 9am GMT.

Every week they are posting up new videos and links to tracks, and getting readers to vote for their favourites, revealing the results on a weekly basis and then putting together a Tracks Of The Month list at the end of each month.

The following 4 minute clip was shown on BBC Breakfast several times this morning. It contains footage from backstage at the London show as well as the Monster book launch: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-18758702