POP DATE BOOK

The much-heralded KISS reunion will be coming to the Forum--makeup, stage effects and all--on Aug. 23. Tickets are on sale today. . . . Gloria Estefan also will be at the Forum, Aug. 9, in addition to a sold-out Pond of Anaheim date on Aug. 8. Forum tickets go on sale Sunday. . . . On sale today: former Crowded House members the Finn Brothers, July 16 at the John Anson Ford Theatre. . . . On sale Sunday is a blues-rock bill topped by Joe Cocker, Buddy Guy and the Fabulous Thunderbirds, Aug. 3 at the Universal Amphitheatre and Aug. 6 at the Glen Helen Blockbuster Pavilion. . . . Also on sale Sunday for the Universal is Dead Can Dance, Aug. 11. . . . Sarah McLachlan, Suzanne Vega and Paula Cole will give an acoustic concert, Aug. 2 at the Starlight Bowl in Burbank. Tickets go on sale Sunday. . . . Also on sale Sunday: the Charlie Watts Quintet, July 15 at the Henry Fonda Theatre, with the Rolling Stones drummer’s jazz-oriented side-project backed by a 21-piece orchestra. . . . Grateful Dead tribute bands Cubensis and Mr. Ectomy are headlining the third annual, all-day “Dead on the Mountain” festival today at the Kratka Ridge Ski Resort in the Angeles Crest National Forrest.