Tour supporting new album comes to Save Mart Center.

By Mike Osegueda / The Fresno Bee

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

This year, the band launched a first-ever fan-routed tour and released "Sonic Boom," its first album in 11 years (which entered the pop charts at No. 2, a career high for KISS).

If you ask Paul Stanley, KISS' co-leader, the band that booms into Save Mart Center on Saturday night is KISS at its best -- with co-leader Gene Simmons at his side, as well as recent additions Tommy Thayer (guitar) and Eric Singer (drums).

We talked to Stanley about the fan-routed tour, its new album and why critics and multigenerations seem to love KISS these days.

Here's KISS with their custom Sacramento Kings jerseys that were presented to them backstage at the Arco Arena last night.

Jonah Rocks was invited by Kiss drummer Eric Singer to be his guest at the Kiss soundcheck and concert. Eric took Jonah up on stage to check out his drum kit. Thank You Eric, Paul, Tommy, and Gene, it was wonderful to meet you guys. Also a big thanks to Kiss management, security, and all of the Kiss crew, you guys are the best. Jonah will never be the same. LOL. Jonah loves you Eric!

CLICK HERE to watch a clip of Jonah playing Eric's drum kit!

KISS is featured on the cover of the latest issue of the most popular Greek Hard Rock & Heavy Metal magazine, ROCK HARD Greece.

This Nov/Dec issue #47 will be at the newsstands Nov. 19th.

Thanks to our German friend Marcel Mueller for sending the image to KOL.

Concert photo stills from Kiss' 11/15/09 Alive 35 Sonic Boom CD tour at Key Arena. "Deuce" live is direct from the Seattle show! I shot these photos in 8 minutes during the songs "Deuce" and "Strutter." I saw Kiss for the first time in this same building nearly 30 years before this date on 11/21/79!

Savoia Photography

Check out these photo of the KISS Army rockin' away on the Alive 35 Tour!

Photos by Spiro Papadatos for KISSOnline.

Check out this great fan-filmed clip of "Detroit Rock City" live in Seattle!

Paul is featured on the cover of the latest issue of the Swedish rock magazine, FUZZ.

By ALAN SCULLEY
Special to The Press-Enterprise

The 1998 Kiss studio CD, "Psycho Circus," looked more like a last gasp than the celebrated event it was intended to be.

The CD was billed as the return of the original Kiss, since it came in the midst of the reunion of guitarist/singer Paul Stanley and bassist/singer Gene Simmons with the two other original members, guitarist Ace Frehley and drummer Peter Criss.

"Psycho Circus," though, ended up being a lackluster effort on a musical level, and far less than advertised when it came to being called a triumphant return of the classic Kiss lineup.

So Kiss had something to prove when the band decided it wanted to make a new studio CD last year. For one thing, this was a new lineup for Kiss, with guitarist Tommy Thayer making his full-fledged debut and drummer Eric Singer, who since 1996 has been the band's drummer whenever Criss wasn't in the lineup, back on board.

Here's the trailer for KISS's first-ever live streaming concert!

FIRST KISS: KISS CELEBRATES GUITAR HERO RELEASE WITH THEIR FIRST WEB CONCERT ON FACEBOOK VIA USTREAM PRESENTED BY BUD LIGHT GOLDEN WHEAT

Bud Light Golden Wheat presents the legendary rockers KISS ( www.kissonline.com) on Facebook via a Ustream streaming link live from their show at the Staples Center in Los Angeles at 9 pm PST on Wednesday, November 25. This is the first-ever live web concert for one of rock's most iconic bands as KISS celebrates the November 19 release of their new, three-track Guitar Hero pack featuring Modern Day Delilah, I Was Made for Loving You and Lick It Up.

Users can watch and interact by visiting the official KISS Facebook page at facebook.com/KISS or on Ustream at www.ustream.tv/channel/kiss-live to connect with other KISS fans for a personal chat and live video experience in real-time during the show. Users who own an Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft can click the Guitar Hero banner at the bottom of the screen and go directly to Xbox LIVE Marketplace on Xbox.com to purchase the KISS three-song track pack and queue it up for download to their Xbox 360 console. PlayStation3 computer entertainment system and Wii owners can purchase the track pack through the in-game music store in either Guitar Hero 5 or Band Hero.

Check out this commercial for the KISS Guitar Hero 3-song track pack, available today!

Here's KISS in front of the packed Key Arena in Seattle!

Photo by Dean Snowden for KISSONLINE

Band, complete with makeup, will play Saturday at Save Mart Center

By EDNA GUNDERSEN

"Look at Kiss culture," says Gene Simmons, radiating pride. "People tattoo their bodies with Kiss faces, name their children after our songs, have Kiss conventions."

"This is Planet Kiss; we just live on it. The stage is holy ground, and what we do is electric church."

Holy hyperbole! The kabuki kibitzers of big-top rock are back in greasepaint and spandex, armed with a new album and a fresh stage spectacle to solidify a legacy built on thundering riffs, pyrotechnics, superheroic role-playing and hucksterism. That new stage spectacle comes Saturday to the Save Mart Center on the campus of California State University, Fresno.

There is a story and review on KISS' SONIC BOOM album in the latest issue of the German Playboy Magazine!

Thanks to Harald Streibl for sending KOL the image!