Logo
DiS Needs You: Save our site »
  • Some Velvet Mixtape: 2019 In Reverb, Delay, Distortion & Drone #1 1 day ago
  • James Yorkston - The Route to the Harmonium 2 days ago
  • Teeth of the Sea - Wraith 3 days ago
  • Yann Tiersen - ALL 8 days ago
  • DiScover: IYEARA 8 days ago
  • Two’s Company: Asta Bria & John Metcalfe @ The Playground Theatre 8 days ago
  • Methyl Ethel - Triage 9 days ago
  • “Music as a personal outlet really isn’t all that interesting”: DiS Meets Lewsberg 10 days ago
  • Logo_home2
  • Records
  • In Depth
  • In Photos
  • Blog
  • Podcast
  • Search
  • Community
  • Records
  • In Depth
  • Blog
  • Community
7741

news

Backstreet's back? Alright!
Mike_Diver by Mike Diver March 1st, 2005
Boyband daddies the Backstreet Boys are to return to charts worldwide in June this year with a new (as yet untitled) album, their first for five years.

The group, whose 2000 album Black & Blue shifted a staggering 5.4 million copies in the US, will be thrown back into the limelight currently occupied by, um, Blue. And some other super-bland pretty boys. Meh...

Howie Dorough, one-fifth of the awesome five, spoke to Billboard about the pressures of being back in the public eye:

"That's the first thing we thought about when we started making the record. That's why we said we weren't going to give ourselves a time limit. We wanted to make sure this album would give us a shot again to be around for the long haul so people will realize that we're not, hopefully, a flash in the pan in their eyes. The music has matured. It's a little more stripped down, a little more organic. There's not necessarily five-part harmony on everything you hear."

At the last count, Blue's Greatest Hits had shifted eight copies in Bangor, and seventeen in Falmouth. Cornish suckers...



LATEST


  • Some Velvet Mixtape: 2019 In Reverb, Delay, Distortion & Drone #1


  • James Yorkston

    The Route to the Harmonium


  • Teeth of the Sea

    Wraith


  • Yann Tiersen

    ALL


  • DiScover: IYEARA


  • Two’s Company: Asta Bria & John Metcalfe @ The Playground Theatre

Share on
   
Love DiS? Become a Patron of the site here »




LATEST

    Column


    Some Velvet Mixtape: 2019 In Reverb, Delay, Dis...

  • 106050
  • review


    James Yorkston - The Route to the Harmonium

  • 106055

    review


    Teeth of the Sea - Wraith

  • 106054
  • review


    Yann Tiersen - ALL

  • 106053

    Interview


    DiScover: IYEARA

  • 106046
  • Live Review


    Two’s Company: Asta Bria & John Metcalfe @ ...

  • 106052

    review


    Methyl Ethel - Triage

  • 106051
  • Interview


    “Music as a personal outlet really isn’t all th...

  • 106049
MORE


    news


    Podcast: 15 Years of Music Blogging

  • 101499
  • news


    Can You Help?

  • 105927

    feature


    Kill Your Friends' ten-point guide to making it...

  • 101587
  • feature


    Broken Dreams, Empty Cheers and a Powerful Mell...

  • 43314

    Interview


    Life, Death and Broken Bells - DiS meets James ...

  • 82768
  • Mixtape


    Drowned in Spotify: A vast selection of DiS-cur...

  • 83031

    Playlist


    89 Cover Songs - A Playlist

  • 101433
  • Artist-generated


    Rappers and Melody: An Analysis by Chilly Gonzales

  • 96777
MORE
Drowned in Sound
  • DROWNED IN SOUND
  • HOME
  • SITE MAP
  • NEWS
  • IN DEPTH
  • IN PHOTOS
  • RECORDS
  • RECOMMENDED RECORDS
  • ALBUMS OF THE YEAR
  • FESTIVAL COVERAGE
  • COMMUNITY
  • MUSIC FORUM
  • SOCIAL BOARD
  • REPORT ERRORS
  • CONTACT US
  • JOIN OUR MAILING LIST
  • FOLLOW DiS
  • GOOGLE+
  • FACEBOOK
  • TWITTER
  • SHUFFLER
  • TUMBLR
  • YOUTUBE
  • RSS FEED
  • RSS EMAIL SUBSCRIBE
  • MISC
  • TERM OF USE
  • PRIVACY
  • ADVERTISING
  • OUR WIKIPEDIA
© 2000-2019 DROWNED IN SOUND