Bob Ezrin says he regrets putting Paul Stanley in a bad spot during the creation of one of the three albums he produced for Kiss. During a Q&A session at the Kiss Kruise: Land-Locked in Las Vegas ...

Earlier this year, my colleague and bud Kelefa Sanneh suggested that music critics, as a lot, have gone soft—becoming submissive, overly agreeable, and, in some cases, nearly servile. He’s right, of ...

Paul is a father of four. He welcomed his son Evan with ex-wife Pamela Bowen Stanley on June 7, 1994. After his divorce, Paul ...

Peter Criss, Kiss' original drummer and 2014 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, is having a quite a month. On Dec. 7 he ...

Tyler, The Creator continues to defy expectations with Don’t Tap the Glass, one of the most intriguing rap albums of 2025. Nine months after CHROMAKOPIA and on the eight-year anniversary of Flower Boy ...

KISS performed their last live show on December 2, 2023, officially retiring from live performances after 50 years. This ...

Here's the main thing you need to know about our ranked list of the 15 best diamond-selling hard rock and metal albums: They're all damn good. Are you surprised? History is littered with platinum ...

Gene Simmons has always been a colorful character, and that is seemingly part of the reason he gave his second solo album a ...

The music world refused to stand still in 2025. This wasn’t a year for playing it safe. Across the globe and all over the stylistic map, music kept mutating in the weirdest, wildest ways. The artists ...

Many of those fans, accustomed to overpromised and underdelivered pipe dreams, scanned a lineup that included new material from Slick Rick, Ghostface Killah, Raekwon, De La Soul, Big L, Mobb Deep, and ...

Kiss received Kennedy Center honors on Saturday, accepting medals from President Trump himself in the Oval Office. You can watch a clip of the band being given the honors below. In addition to Kiss, ...

I joined Paste in 2023 and, in my tenure as editor, this year’s AOTY list is my favorite by far. The publication has been doling out these rankings since 2002, affixing an “Album of the Year” ribbon ...