Kiss diehards might have seen Kiss when they came to play Summerfest this summer at the Marcus Amphitheater, but they didn’t see original Kiss guitarist Ace Frehley (“the Spaceman”) at that show. Frehley has sat out...

Thanks to the continued popularity of all things Kiss, the group’s on-again/off-again lead guitarist Ace Frehley—currently off—continues to draw a reliable audience at his solo shows. Having devoted much of the ’90s to a lucrative Kiss reunion, he hasn't released a solo disc since 1989 . . .

As vicious as it may seem to throw a baby-faced band to the tar pits, The Redwalls have likely missed their shot at stardom. Snatched up by Capitol Records early in their career, in 2005 the Illinois group released De Nova, a banal tribute to the ’60s British Invasion that was heavily promoted but indifferently received.