Ariel Messman-Rucker is an Oakland-born journalist who now calls the Pacific Northwest her home. When she’s not writing about politics and queer pop culture, she can be found reading, hiking, or ...

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.

And humans are far from the only species locking lips. By Ali Watkins The act has been called many things: Centrifugal motion. Perpetual bliss. The thrill of the moment. Unstoppable. In technical ...

KISS honored Ace Frehley in the band’s first performance since his death. The rock group performed its three-day KISS Kruise: Landlocked event in Las Vegas over the weekend and paid tribute to the ...

Delta College student Gizella “Gay” Csaky returned to her Midland home late on Sunday, Nov. 10, 1974. It had been a long, exhausting, exhilarating day. Then, the phone rang. After a brief conversation ...

Ace Frehley, the original lead guitarist and founding member of the glam rock band Kiss, died on Thursday, his family and agent said. He was 74. Frehley died peacefully surrounded by family in ...

I’ve always been an Ace guy — from the time I saw that early concert film on HBO back in the ’70s, a choice I wore with pride when Kiss released four solo albums on the same day (such a Kiss move) and ...

Frehley and the band were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2014. Ace Frehley, the founding guitarist for the rock band KISS, has died at age 74. His death was confirmed in a statement ...

“I am devastated by the passing of Ace Frehley," Simmons and Stanley—who played bass and sang lead vocals in the band, respectively—said in a joint statement to The Hollywood Reporter Oct. 16. "He was ...

Frehley left KISS in 1982 and launched a successful solo career with hits like "New York Groove" Rachel DeSantis is a senior writer on the music team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...

Tributes celebrating the wild, remarkable talent and inimitable laugh of Kiss guitarist Ace Frehley were shared by his fellow musicians following the Spaceman’s death today at age 74. Frehley ...

Paul Daniel “Ace” Frehley, co-founder and lead guitarist of the legendary rock band Kiss and a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, has died following injuries suffered during a fall last month, ...