Releases are in alphabetical order KISS – 20th Century Masters – The DVD Collection (2004) KISS – 40 (2014 Japanese with bonus track) KISS – 40 (“Best of Kiss 40” 2015 Universal Japan) KISS – Alive! 1975–2000 (2006, 4 discs, Best Buy bonus CD, iTunes bonus track) KISS – Alive! (1975) KISS – Alive II […]
RECORD STORE TALES #1007: Kissathon Tomahawk According to my Facebook memories, on this day in 2009 I was listening to a massive all-encompassing Kissathon. This was done so I could review all the albums before the release of Sonic Boom. The first run of Kiss reviews here on this site came from that 2009 Kissathon. […]
Back for Round Three. For the first two Unmasked reviews, click here and here. – Unmasked (1980 Casablanca, 1997 Mercury remaster) This has been a weird year. Comforting, nostalgic sounds in the age of Covid have dominated at LeBrain HQ. There are two Kiss albums that have been absolute joys this summer for blowing the blues away. They have […]
Since I already had the 1986 Saga scheduled all week, I didn’t want to schedule a formal live stream for this weekend like I usually do. Instead I decided to just wing it and go live whenever I felt like it. Streaming periodically through the day like this, we had almost 3 hours of jibber […]
The KISS RE-REVIEW SERIES Part 47: The Conclusion Two years ago, I bought this CD to use as the final review for the KISS Re-Review Series. I hadn’t played it. I hadn’t even opened it. I wanted to save it for our conclusion…so here it is. A lot happened since we started, most notably the […]
GETTING MORE TALE #750: KISS II Kiss frontman Paul Stanley seems emboldened by the monumental success of their End of the Road tour. Why “emboldened”? Because they’re pulling it off with only half the original band. Ace Frehley has not shown up to sing “Shock Me” and Peter Criss seems happily retired. Tommy Thayer and […]
GETTING MORE TALE #711: Why Kiss Need to Suck it Up and Bring Ace Frehley Back In a recent episode of Rock Talk with Mitch Lafon, former Kiss guitarist Ace Frehley said, among many things, that it would take $100,000 per show for him to play on Kiss’ recently announced End of the Road tour. While […]
Guest review by Holen MaGroin It may be considered a childish holiday, but it’s not about candy! Here’s HOLEN MaGROIN with the next in his series of Halloween themed reviews. For the last, Soundgarden’s Screaming Life/Fopp EPs, click here. BATMAN (1989 Warner Bros.) BATMAN RETURNS (1992 Warner Bros.) Directed by Tim Burton Given the […]
The KISS RE-REVIEW SERIES Part 38: – Hot in the Shade (1989 Polygram) Step one: Get Gene Simmons’ demon head back into the game. Step two: Record a rock album, not a Bon-keyboard-Jovi-Kiss hybrid. Throw in the kitchen sink while you’re at it. It’s Kiss, so what’s wrong with excess? Why not a new album with 15 […]
The KISS RE-REVIEW SERIES Part 22: – Creatures of the Night (1982 Casablanca, 1985 Polygram reissue, 1997 Mercury remaster) The internal problems with Kiss continued full-bore into their next album, the surprisingly powerful Creatures of the Night. Ace Frehley was on the cover, and in the music video, but like Peter Criss before him, he didn’t play […]
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