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KISS’ Gene Simmons announces 2025 North American tour

KISS’ Gene Simmons has announced a North American tour for 2025 – check out all the dates below.

The bassist and singer will head out on the road with The Gene Simmons Band in April and May, with the tour kicking off at the Graton Resort & Casino in Rohnert Park, California on April 5.

Later that month, he will head to Florida for a string of shows, before heading to the North East and Canada and finally wrapping in Houston’s House Of Blues on May 24. You can find your tickets here.

The Gene Simmons Band will play: 

APRIL 2025 
5 – The Event at Graton Resort & Casino, Rohnert Park, CA 
25 – Ruth Eckerd Hall, Clearwater, FL 
26 – Fillmore, Miami Beach, FL 
28 – The Moon, Tallahassee, FL 
29 – Florida Theater, Jacksonville, FL 
30 – Hard Rock Live, Orlando, FL 

MAY 2025 
3 – Beaver Dam Amphitheater, Beaver Dam, KY 
5 – Basie, Red Bank, NJ 
6 – Wellmont, Montclair, NJ 
8 – Wind Creek Casino, Bethlehem, PA 
9 – Paramount, Huntington, NY 
15 – Fallsview Casino, Niagara Falls, ON 
20 – Brown County Music Center, Nashville, IN 
22 – House of Blues, Dallas, TX 
23 – Tobin Center, San Antonio, TX 
24 – House of Blues, Houston, TX 

KISS, meanwhile, are working on their upcoming avatar show, which Paul Stanley has described as “Cirque Du Soleil meets Star Wars and a KISS concert”.

The production is being overseen by the company behind ABBA’s ‘Voyage’ show, in which the Swedish pop group were represented by holographic virtual avatars on stage.

Pophouse acquired KISS’ catalogue, brand name and IP in April, while the band first unveiled their ‘new era’ at the final show of ftheir farewell tour last December in Madison Square Garden. After leaving the stage, the band members’ avatars were revealed, and they went on to perform ‘God Gave Rock And Roll To You’.

Shortly afterwards, the band’s co-founder Gene Simmons confirmed that the band’s virtual avatars will “get better”, and revealed that “about 200 million” dollars was being invested in the technology.

Elsewhere, Simmons recently doubled down on his assertion that “rock is dead”, asking, “Who are the new Beatles?”

He went on to dismiss Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Foo Fighters as examples of more recent bands on that level. “My point is if you randomly walk down the street and you ask the first young person you meet, a 20-year-old, and you say, ‘Name me anybody in Pearl Jam,’ good luck with that. ‘Name me or tell me a song. Hum a song.’ They [can’t].”

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