KISS’ Gene Simmons Announces Mohegan Sun Arena Show

KISS’ Gene Simmons Announces Mohegan Sun Arena Show

Tickets on sale, Friday, January 17th

UNCASVILLE, CT (January 13, 2025) – On Sunday, May 11th, Rock icon Gene Simmons and his solo band, the GENE SIMMONS BAND, will deliver a historic show at Mohegan Sun Arena.

The iconic bassist and his band’s tickets go on sale on Friday, January 17th via Ticketmaster.com at 10:00am. Subject to availability, Rock fans can begin purchasing tickets at the Mohegan Sun Box Office on Saturday, January 18th.

Gene Simmons is an international Rock legend and co-founder of KISS, America’s #1 gold record award-winning group of all time in all categories (RIAA). As a serial entrepreneur, Simmons has achieved success that reaches far beyond his music career, extending into television, film, publishing, merchandising, restaurants, consumer products and more. During his early musical career, Simmons was inspired to become a Rock star when he saw a televised performance by the Beatles. He put his first band together, The Missing Links, with classmates while attending Joseph Pulitzer Middle School. After middle school and throughout high school, Simmons formed several bands including The Long Island Sounds, and Bullfrog Bheer.

He met fellow KISS co-founder Paul Stanley in 1970 and they formed their first attempt at a band, Wicked Lester. Though the band developed a prominent following in the New York Rock scene, Simmons worked several odd jobs to make additional money, including a position as a 6th grade teacher in Spanish Harlem and serving as an assistant to an editor at Vogue magazine.

In the winter of 1972, with a desire to create the “ultimate” Rock band, not just “another” Rock band, Simmons and Stanley formed KISS with original band members Peter Criss and Paul “Ace” Frehley. Inspired by his love of comic books and horror films, Simmons conceived the concept of his face paint. The addition of elaborate costumes, frenetic stage performance and ostentatious concert effects catapulted KISS to international stardom and a coveted position as one of the most recognized Rock and Roll bands in the world.  Since their inception, KISS has developed millions of fans around the world, also known as the KISS Army. With over 100 million CDs and DVDs sold worldwide, KISS continues to sell out stadiums and arenas around the world, breaking box-office records set by Elvis and The Beatles.  

KISS was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2014 and, in 1999, received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In December of 2023, KISS held its last two concerts at Madison Square Garden in New York. Gene Simmons celebrated much success beyond KISS. Simmons continues to hit the stage with his Gene Simmons Band, which in addition to Simmons includes Brent Woods (Sebastian Bach, Vince Neil of MÖTLEY CRÜE), Zach Throne (Mother Pearl, The Pink Floyd Experience, Cody Carpenter) and Brian Tichy (Whitesnake, Billy Idol, Foreigner, Sass Jordan, and Ozzy Osbourne).  Simmons’ keen business acumen has expanded the KISS brand beyond the stage. With more than 5,000 licensed/merchandised items, KISS has generated more money from merchandising and trademark deals than any other band in music history.

ABOUT MOHEGAN SUN ARENA

Mohegan Sun Arena, one of the busiest sports and entertainment venues in the world today, was awarded the 2024 Newsweek Readers’ Choice award for “Best Casino with Live Entertainment in America”.  Mohegan Sun Arena was also named “Best Casino/Resort Venue of the Year” at the 35th Annual Pollstar Awards. In 2021, the 10,000-seat Arena also received its first “#1 Indoor Arena” ranking for its size in the world from Pollstar and VenuesNow. Mohegan Sun Arena is also a seven-time national award winner for “Arena of the Year” by the Academy of Country Music Awards (ACM) and G2E Las Vegas. For more information on concerts and other great events, visit Mohegan Sun. For information on this week’s schedule, call the Entertainment and Special Events hotline at 1.888.226.7711.

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KISS Brings Their Monster Tour 2013 To Mohegan Sun Arena

Live in concert on August 10th. Tickets on sale May 10th

In support of their latest studio album, Monster, KISS is on the road again for the aptly titled Monster Tour 2013. Mohegan Sun Arena welcomes the legendary Rock band with special guest Leogun on Saturday, August 10th for a 7:30pm performance.
Tickets are $96.00 and $76.00 and go on sale Friday, May 10th through Ticketmaster at 10:00am.  Ticketmaster customers may log on to ticketmaster.com; call Ticketmaster’s national toll free Charge By Phone number 1.800.745.3000; or visit any Ticketmaster outlet.  Tickets will also be available at the Mohegan Sun Box Office starting Saturday, May 11th, subject to availability. More details available at mohegansun.com/entertainment also.
“We’re a real, flesh-and-blood Rock and Roll band with people who’ve spent 40 years doing what we believe in.” – Paul Stanley
January 2013 marked four decades since Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley, then members of a band called Wicked Lester, joined up with drummer Peter Criss and guitarist Ace Frehley to form KISS. Forty years later, having racked up 28 U.S. gold albums along with 40 million U.S. and 100 million in world sales, Simmons and Stanley, with longtime members guitarist Tommy Thayer and drummer Eric Singer, return stronger than ever. Released through Universal Music Enterprises, Monster is the 20th studio album in their historic career.
The 12-song (plus bonus track), straight-ahead Rock ‘n’ Roll album features collaborations from all four members in an effort that shows KISS at the top of its game. Monster is the group’s first studio album since the band’s 2009 smash success Sonic Boom, and was also produced by Paul Stanley with Greg Collins at Conway Studios in Hollywood, CA, and The Nook in Studio City, CA. “We weren’t interested in making just a great KISS album, but a great Rock album that lived up to the bands we loved growing up,” explains Stanley, “the ones who got us to play music in the first place.”

“There are no symphony orchestras, boy choirs, keyboards, outside producers or guest songwriters,” boasts Simmons. “The best thing we did was turn inwards to ourselves.

Tommy and Eric have revitalized the group with a work ethic and the talent to back it up. This is a real band effort. KISS has become a behemoth. We are going where no Rock group has gone before.”

Monster represents KISS’ nod to the music that first inspired them to pick up their guitars and flame-throwers and don makeup to entertain millions. The group goes back to their own beginnings with the Who-like “Freak,” while Gene lives up the title track’s declaration on the raucus prehistoric Punk-Rock of “Back to the Stone Age” and the bludgeoning, self-referential “The Devil is Me.” “Take Me Down Below” is one of the KISS’ classic sexual double entendres in the mod of “Love Gun” or “Lick It Up.” Guitarist Thayer takes a solo turn on this own with “Outta This World,” a tribute to his KISS “spaceman” character, while drummer Singer provides the vocals (and the inspiration) for the Stanley-penned arena anthem “All for the Love of Rock & Roll.”

Mohegan Sun Arena is ranked 3rd in the U.S. and 4th in the world by Billboard Magazine and was the 2008 and 2010 recipient of a Country Music Award for “Casino of The Year.”  Venues Today also ranked Mohegan Sun Arena #4 in 2011 and ranked in the top six of “Top Stops of The Decade” in 2012. For more information on concerts and other great events at Mohegan Sun, visit mohegansun.com. For information on this week’s schedule, call the Entertainment and Special Events hotline at 1.888.226.7711, ext. 27163.

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KISS Joins Mohegan Sun’s Walk Of Fame

Legendary Rock band KISS adds their name to Mohegan Sun’s Walk of Fame

Mohegan Sun is pleased to announce that KISS, one of theKISSsmall most iconic and recognized Rock bands of all time, has been inducted into Mohegan Sun’s Walk of Fame.  This places KISS among an elite group of entertainers whose stars will now lie beside theirs.  Their induction took place Thursday, August 19th in The Shops concourse in front of a crowd of excited fans. KISS is the 20th star to be inducted into Mohegan Sun’s Walk of Fame.  Upon receiving their star band member, Paul Stanley, jokingly asked fans “Why aren’t you in the Arena for the show, are you waiting for us?”

 KISS has been rocking out arenas for the last four decades and has become one of the most renowned Rock bands in the history of music, with popular songs like “Rock And Roll All Nite” and “Calling Dr. Love.” They have sold over 100 million albums worldwide and have continued their incredible success with the release of their latest album, Sonic Boom, just last year.
 About Mohegan Sun
Mohegan Sun, owned by the Mohegan Tribe, is one of the largest, most distinctive and spectacular entertainment, gaming, shopping and meeting destinations in the United States.  Situated on 240 acres along the Thames River in scenic southeastern Connecticut, Mohegan Sun is within easy access of New York, Boston, Hartford and Providence and located 15 minutes from the museums, antique shops and waterfront of Mystic Country.  More information is available by calling 1.888.226.7711 or by visiting mohegansun.com.

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Rock & Roll All Night With KISS at Mohegan Sun Arena

Tickets go on sale Saturday, August 29th for KISS’s October 3rd concert at Mohegan Sun
UNCASVILLE, CT (August 24, 2009) — One of the most legendary Rock bands of all-time with 24 straight gold or better records, KISS, will take center stage at Mohegan Sun Arena for their “Kiss Alive 35” tour on Saturday, October 3rd. Special guests Buckcherry open the show which begins at 7:30pm. 
Tickets are $95.00 and $75.00 and go on sale Saturday, August 29th at 10:00am through Ticketmaster.  Ticketmaster customers may log on to ticketmaster.com; call Ticketmaster’s national toll free Charge by Phone number 1.800.745.3000; or visit any Ticketmaster outlet.   Tickets will also be available at the Mohegan Sun Box Office starting Sunday, August 30th, subject to availability.
KISS has sold over 80 million albums worldwide and is known to be one of the most thrilling and imaginative live concerts to experience.  Equipped with the famous comic book-like mystiques and high-octane theatrics via pyrotechnics, fire-breathing and dry ice fog, the band still brings an energy to the stage that remains unrivaled in Pop-Metal.  Over the span of more than three decades, they have released 28 albums in which 26 have gone gold, platinum or multi-platinum, trailing only the Beatles in this category.  KISS is set to release their first studio album in 11 years entirely produced by the band’s Paul Stanley entitled Sonic Boom and will be available through Walmart, Walmart.com and Sam’s Club retail locations on October 6th. 
A Hard Rock favorite since its eponymous debut in 1999, the Grammy-nominated Buckcherry has since released the platinum album 15, the top ten smash and recently released Black Butterfly, and freewheeling hits like “Crazy Bitch” and “Sorry.”  The band also has a new live album releasing this September entitled Live & Loud. 
For more information on KISS with special guest Buckcherry and other great events at Mohegan Sun, visit mohegansun.com.  For information on this week’s schedule, call the Entertainment and Special Events hotline at 1.888.226.7711, ext. 27163.

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