The elusive rock icon, 73, just announced “Ride the Serpent,” his first piece of original material in more than 20 years, and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Kiss debuts its half-century-old live album Alive! in the U.K.

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

Find out all about the 12 kids of KISS members Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley, Ace Frehley, Peter Criss, Tommy Thayer and Vinnie ...

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 ...

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. Ezrin revealed that while he was being interviewed for an (excellent) ...

For its new "Wish You Were Here 50" box set, Pink Floyd added a legendary audience recording of a 1975 concert in Los Angeles ...

Peter Criss really doesn't want you to buy his new album digitally. The former Kiss drummer has put his brand-new self-titled ...

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 ...

We’re at the end of yet another year where commentators and fans speculated on the health of the rap world. In October, it was reported that, for the first time in 35 years, there were no rap songs in ...

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 ...