Kix vocalist Steve Whiteman is featured in a new interview with SleazeRoxx.com discussing the band's new live DVD/CD package, Live In Baltimore, and their long career. An excerpt is available below:

Sleaze Roxx: Kix is a hard rock band that has more in common with a band like AC/DC than some of the glam bands which you were categorized with. How did you feel about that?

Steve Whiteman: "We fought that image because we were around well before that shit started. When we got our record deal in 1980 we were more compared to AC/DC, AEROSMITH, and bands like that. Unfortunately Atlantic Records just let us ride out there on our own, they didn't give much of a push to our first three albums. Anything that Kix achieved in the early years was through our own blood, sweat, tears, perseverance and the refusal to give up. It was all our persistent touring that kept gathering fans and kept selling enough records for Atlantic Records to pick up the next option."

"It wasn't until the fourth album that they pushed that magic button. We started making videos, we started getting airplay on radio because they'd have the promotional team out there to push it -- that's were it all popped. All those bands from that era were all those 'hair bands' so we got lumped in with that shit. It never pleased us, but we had to take the good with the bad because we were finally on MTV, we were finally on the radio, and we were finally out of clubs and playing arenas -- a lot of good came out of it too."

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Live In Baltimore was released on September 21st in Europe and September 25th in North America.

Since the band’s return to the national stage in 2008 with appearances at two of the biggest rock festivals in the US, Rocklahoma in Pryor, Oklahoma and Rock the Bayou in Houston, TX , Kix has amassed a large number of successful live shows all across the USA, with regular appearances at festivals, casinos and biker rallys, culminating with headlining the hugely successful M3 Festival in Columbia, MD two years in a row. The new live CD / DVD is packed with fan favorites and a choice catalog of great hard rock Kix songs recorded live in Baltimore, MD.

As the demand from the fans for new Kix music has never subsided and in fact has only increased over the last few years, band members have decided that they can no longer ignore the overtures from the fans and are writing new Kix songs for a new album due out on Frontiers Records in 2013.

Singer Steve Whiteman stated "This is a great thing for us and we hope it’s a great thing for Kix fans all around the world. We are so thrilled to finally be able to give the fans what they have been asking for, a live DVD and new Kix music in 2013! We have been hard at work getting new material together that we think will stand shoulder to shoulder with any previous Kix record. It’s a really exciting time!"

The Kix lineup includes original members Steve Whiteman, Jimmy Chalfant, Ronnie Younkins and Brian Forsythe with Mark Schenker on bass.

Live in Baltimore will be released in a CD/DVD configuration with the following tracklisting :

CD:

'No Ring Around Rosie'

'Atomic Bombs'

'Lie Like A Rug'

'Don’t Close Your Eyes'

'Girl Money'

'Cold Blood'

'Cold Shower'

'She Dropped Me The Bomb'

'Blow My Fuse'

'Kix Are For Kids'

'Midnite Dynamite'

'Yeah, Yeah, Yeah'

DVD:

'No Ring Around Rosie'

'Atomic Bombs'

'Lie Like A Rug'

'Sex'

'The Itch'

'Don’t Close Your Eyes'

'Hot Wire'

'Same Jane'

'Girl Money'

- Ronnie “10/10” solo -

'Cold Blood'

- Jimmy “Chocolate” solo -

'Cold Shower'

'She Dropped Me The Bomb'

'Blow My Fuse'

'Kix Are For Kids'

'Midnite Dynamite'

'For Shame'

- Brian “Damage” solo -

'Yeah, Yeah, Yeah'

Digital Edition (audio only):

'No Ring Around Rosie'

'Atomic Bombs'

'Lie Like A Rug'

'Sex' *

'The Itch' *

'Don’t Close Your Eyes'

'Hot Wire' *

'Girl Money'

'Cold Blood'

'Cold Shower'

'She Dropped Me The Bomb'

'Blow My Fuse'

'Kix Are For Kids'

'Midnite Dynamite'

'For Shame' *

'Yeah, Yeah, Yeah'

* bonus tracks

Check out the DVD trailer below. 'Cold Shower' can be exclusively listened in streaming on the Frontiers Records web radio station here.