Gene Simmons "points the finger at who he suspects is guilty for killing rock."

Irony is the gift that never stops giving. Rolling Stone now bills itself as a source for country music, wherein Gene Simmons can speak about the death of rock. Actually, as often is this case, Simmons has a point. Too bad it's on Paul Stanley's head.

Gene Simmons: 'Rock Is Finally Dead. It Was Murdered', by Daniel Kreps (Rolling Stone)

 ... "The craft is gone, and that is what technology, in part, has brought us," Simmons said. "What is the next Dark Side of the Moon? Now that the record industry barely exists, they wouldn't have a chance to make something like that. There is a reason that, along with the usual top-40 juggernauts, some of the biggest touring bands are half old people, like me."

Simmons then points the finger at who he suspects is guilty for killing rock: "My sense is that file sharing started in predominantly white, middle- and upper-middle-class young people who were native-born, who felt they were entitled to have something for free, because that's what they were used to.