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[WTF] KISS Releasing Limited-Edition Book At The Cool Price Of $4,300
KISS might be taking things just a little too far with their upcoming photo book KISS Monster, which features incredibly high-quality, never before seen photographs of the band through the years. Three feet tall and two and a half feet wide, this book is advertised as being as tall as a guitar. It also costs as much as a high end guitar, with a price tag of $4,299. The book will be limited to 1,000 numbered/autographed copies with a pre-launch set of 75 going for the still incredibly unreasonable price of $3,499. But hey, both prices include free shipping, so I guess whoever orders it can feel like they got a deal. If you’re at all interested, head on over to the official website for more information.
Below is a video with each band member talking a little bit about the book. Also in the video you can watch as Gene Simmons still hasn’t learned to put away his tongue. Terrible table manners, don’t you think?
Level with me readers, can any of you see this as a worthwhile investment? I personally can’t wrap my head around the price vs. content. It just doesn’t make sense to me.
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It’s a new day, and you’ve got new John Carpenter to listen to. John Carpenter, Daniel Davies and Cody Carpenter have released the new track He Walks By Night this morning, the second single off their upcoming album Lost Themes IV: Noir, out May 3 on Sacred Bones Records.
Lost Themes IV: Noir is the latest installment in a series that sees Carpenter releasing new music for John Carpenter movies that don’t actually exist. The first Lost Themes was released in 2015, followed by Lost Themes II in 2016 and Lost Themes III: Alive After Death in 2021.
Sacred Bones previews, “It’s been a decade since John Carpenter recorded the material that would become Lost Themes, his debut album of non-film music and the opening salvo in one of Hollywood’s great second acts. Those vibrant, synth-driven songs, made in collaboration with his son Cody Carpenter and godson Daniel Davies, kickstarted a musical renaissance for the pioneering composer and director. With Lost Themes IV: Noir, they’ve struck gold again, this time mining the rich history of the film noir genre for inspiration.
“Since the first Lost Themes, John has referred to these compositions as “soundtracks for the movies in your mind.” On the fourth installment in the series, those movies are noirs. Like the film genre they were influenced by, what makes these songs “noirish” is sometimes slippery and hard to define, and not merely reducible to a collection of tropes. The scores for the great American noir pictures were largely orchestral, while the Carpenters and Davies work off a sturdy synth-and-guitar backbone.
“The trio’s free-flowing chemistry means Lost Themes IV: Noir runs like a well-oiled machine—the 1951 Jaguar XK120 Roadster from Kiss Me Deadly, perhaps, or the 1958 Plymouth Fury from John’s own Christine. It’s a chemistry that’s helped power one of the most productive stretches of John’s creative life, and Noir proves that it’s nowhere near done yielding brilliant results.”
You can pre-save Lost Themes IV: Noir right now! And listen to the new track below…
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