May 28 :
CHRIS JERICHO's KISS covers Band KUARANTINE is back with fourth
single, 'Silver Spoon' From
:
Blabbermouth.net
In 2020, FOZZY singer Chris Jericho joined forces with TRIXTER/FOZZY
bassist P.J. Farley, guitarist Joe McGinness and drummer Kent
Slucher to form a 1980s KISS cover band called KUARANTINE. The
band's latest single, a version of "Silver Spoon", which originally
appeared on KISS's 1989 album "Hot In The Shade", can be streamed
below. The new track, available via Madison Records with
distribution by The Orchard, was the second most added song this
week on the Billboard Rock Indicator chart and marks the fourth
release from KUARANTINE, which has been entertaining fans with its
versions of KISS rarities and some good ol' fashioned rock music.
KUARANTINE's version of "Silver Spoon" has even drawn praise from
KISS frontman Paul Stanley, who said: "My favorite song on 'Hot In
The Shade' by far. Sounds great… well done!"
KUARANTINE first debuted in May 2020 with the release of "No No No",
which reached No. 25 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart. The
band has since issued its versions of "Heart Of Chrome", featuring
former KISS guitarist Bruce Kulick, and "Love's A Deadly Weapon",
amassing nearly half a million total views on their videos on
YouTube and close to 200,000 total streams across DSPs.
May 26 :
Italian KISS tribute album released by LESTER - Kover All Over From
:
KISS Related Recordings
On May 23 Italian Rocker Lester Greenowski have released his KISS
tribute album "LESTER
- Kover All Over", recorded almost completely during the COVID-19 pandemic 2020 and
2021.
The album is available on various digital platforms, like
Spotify
and
Bandcamp.
Track Listing:
01 Radioactive
02 Got To Choose
03 New York Groove
04 Kissin’ Time
05 Cold Gin
06 Strutter
07 Parasite
08 It’s My Life
09 Getaway
10 I Love It Loud
11 Radioattiva (Italian version)
In 2001
Lester Greenowski released an EP entitled
Starring in "Learning To Kiss"
which EP was recorded with
Italian Kiss Tribute band Electric Circus.
Lester was the singer of Land$lide Ladie$, one of the band featured on 2003's Italian's
Kiss Better Tribute
compilation album.
May 21 :
THAYER - St. JAMES - The Lost Tapes 5 track EP release date From
:
Jamie St. James & Tommy Thayer
On June 3 Tommy Thayer and Jamie St. James
will release a
5 track CD EP entitled "The Lost Tapes".
Track Listing:
• Sweet Sensation
• American Man
• Time
• Ballad of the Bullet
• Work It
We’ve been friends a long time. We were talking the other day and
realized that we’ve known each other, written songs, and played in
bands together since we were 18 years old. That’s well over 40
years! Here’s five songs we uncovered recently that we’d almost
forgotten about. These recordings were saved for more than 30 years
on 2” analog multitrack tape and two track mixes on 1/4” tape, but
were unfortunately disintegrated beyond use. After some digging, a
DAT tape and a cassette were the only usable sources we could find.
These recordings were almost lost forever. Now thanks to a bit of
digital polishing, these songs have come to life! We thought they
should see the light of day.
Enjoy — Jaime and Tommy
May 6 :
SHAMELESS unveil video for Simmons cover of “Love Is
Blind” From
:
Pride & Joy Music / Shameless / Alexx Michael
SHAMELESS unveiled a video for their cover of the Gene Simmons'
unreleased 1977/1978 song “Love
Is Blind” from their upcoming new
studio album “So Good, You Should
...” which will be released on
May 20th, 2022. Also
Kiss legend
Bruce Kulick
is featured in the song and video.
For “So Good, You Should…”, Michael again teamed up with
guitarist partner BC, Charlotte Tybalt, Dennis Post, Stevie
Rachelle (Tuff), Frankie Muriel and Tod T Burr to release their
first ever covers album which also includes 2 brand-new tracks.
Due to the pandemic making in-person studio recording
impossible, Shameless recorded the recorded the record at 12
different locations all over the world including Munich, Los
Angeles, Las Vegas, St. Louis, Copenhagen and Auckland, New
Zealand.
The band already released the single “Live
Your Dream”
with Charlotte last year in conjunction with Michael's book
“Looking Inside: The Stainless Sensation”, a 500 page deluxe
bound definitive history of John DeLorean, the DMC 12 and the
DeLorean Motor Company.
Charlotte sings 5 of the new tracks plus adding backing vocals
on almost all the other tracks. Like on all Shameless releases, Tuff
singer Stevie Rachelle, sang on a couple of the songs. Kiss legend
Bruce Kulick is featured on a total of 4 songs including
their version of the unreleased
Gene Simmons song “Love is
blind” and the cover of “East Bound And Down” where the band was
joined by Jaret Reddick of Bowling For Soup on vocals. Tracii
Guns appears as well on the new release.
Three more singles and videos will be released in advance to the
album “So Good, You Should” - starting with the track “Shout Out
Loud” on February 4th, 2022!
April 30 :
KISS MY CHILEAN ASS - Chilean tribute album to KISS From
:
nenroll.com
/
KISS Related Recordings
A new Chilean tribute album to Kiss is now available on digital
platforms, where a series of national bands and artists covered some
classics of the American group.
It’s called “Kiss My Chilean Ass” and, among others, Dorso, Squad,
Savannah, Aleste and many others participate. You can check out the
full album below.
In total there are 12 Chilean bands that pay tribute to those they
recognize as a vital influence in the
development of their projects. Each band chose a song from the Kiss
discography.
01
Sick : Almost Human
02 Aleste : Sure Know Something
03 Factor Z : I Was Made For Lovin’ You
04 Back : Makin’ Love
05 Nazty Gunz : Creatures Of The Night
06 Savannah : Strutter
07 The Necropolis : Killer
08 Otto Pantoja : Shock Me
09 Insigne : The Oath
10 Rival : King Of The Mountain
11 Squad : War Machine
12 Raff : Black Diamond
This project was managed and produced by the group of musicians and
Kiss fans called Look It’s Rock n’ Roll formed by Esteban Muñoz,
Gonzalo Quiroga, Christopher Sepulveda and Alvaro Araya, as well as
Kiss Army Chile as a close collaborator.
They were also part of the Fyto Manga project in illustrations and
Armando Muñoz in the cover design.
The album was made non-profit and only as a way to honor Kiss and
demonstrate the passion of Chilean fans.
