A Tribute to Kiss (KOCH). Review by Joe Frietze.

Blackie Lawless,Dying for the World,The Headless Children,Sister Sadie,Asylum #9,Red Room of the Rising Sun,Tomorrow Never Knows Tommy ,W.A.S.P.,The Neon God,Sanctuary,Stein Haukland

Yesterday Rules (Lookout!). Review by Carl F Gauze.

Yesterday Rules (Lookout!). Review by Carl F Gauze.

Kill The DJ (Hypnotic). Review by Ben Varkentine.

A Special Album (Emperor Norton). Review by Stein Haukland.

Kiss My Grass. A Hillbilly Tribute to KISS (Dualtone). Review by Stein Haukland.

Volume (Popularity / Artemis). Review by Stein Haukland.

Curt Gooch and Jeff Suhs exhaustively detail the touring history of one of rock’s most memorable live acts in their new book, Kiss Alive Forever. Stein Haukland holds his lighter in the air.

Beautiful Trash (BYO). Review by Daniel Mitchell.

Various Artists (UTV). Review by Carl F. Gauze.

Abigail II: The Revenge (Metal Blade). Review by Matthew Moyer.

Morning Star (Koch). Review by Stein Haukland.

Stein Haukland risks great personal derision by revealing the ten guiltiest of his musical guilty pleasures. Be gentle.

He’s done time with Frehley’s Comet, Cheap Trick, and Ted Nugent, yet Tod Howarth can’t get arrested. Stein Haukland talks with the pragmatic rocker about the business of music.

Gail Worley sold her soul to Satan to bring you an interview with the legendary Alice Cooper. What a bargain!

As Gail Worley herself might say, “It’s all about hangin’ out with rock stars.” Gail hung out with plenty of rock stars this year, and here presents the 19 most memorable things they said to her.

Dragontown (Spitfire). Review by Carl F. Gauze.

Badlands (Koch). Review by Cindy Rivers.

Kurt Channing considers the puzzling popularity of internet cult figure Mahir, inevitable pop superstardom and all, and grasps about for a metaphor to neatly describe it all. Anyone up for picking scabs?