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“From ’93 to 2001 we were going non-stop, and we finally got a chance to step back, reflect and really appreciate everything that happened to us,” Brian Littrell says of the Backstreet Boys’ two-year hiatus. The recharged quintet is recording the follow-up to 2001’s Black and Blue in various Los Angeles studios. The new songs feature a more mature sound for the teen pop idols. Ballads like “You Can Tell Me” and “Love Is” – co-written by Howie Dorough – exude an urban soul vibe a la Britain’s Craig David. And the Boys say the album will touch upon a… Read more »

The Backstreet Boys are in sync again. “It’s been like three years since we’ve all been in the studio together, so it’s like the fire was rekindled,” is how Nick Carter described the reunion during a recent break from recording. “We’re in there experimenting and really cool stuff’s coming out. It’s not gonna be the same Backstreet. I mean, you’re always gonna have Backstreet Boys, but the music’s gonna change.” The group plans to update the teen-pop sound it mastered in the late ’90s with a more mature approach to production and songwriting. “We’re just not doing it like we… Read more »

She can score whatever interview she wants. She can send a book to the top of the best-seller list. She can even inspire the Backstreet Boys to reunite. Thanks to Oprah Winfrey, the Backstreet Boys have decided the timing is right to finally hit the recording studio for the follow-up to 2000’sBlack & Blue. “We’re all excited,” Kevin Richardson said soon after the group taped an upcoming episode of “The Oprah Winfrey Show” last month. “All of us hadn’t been together in the same room in like six months, so it was wild. It was good to be back together… Read more »

Two members of the Backstreet Boys were involved in a three-vehicle accident Monday night in Lexington, Kentucky. Upon leaving a charity golf tournament at the University of Kentucky, a car in which A.J. McLean and Brian Littrell were passengers was sideswiped by a car that had been struck by another car. According to Lexington police, who described the incident as a “very simple fender bender,” the Toyota Camry driven by Littrell’s mother, Jackie, and containing McLean, Littrell, Littrell’s wife, Leighanne, and their son, Baylee, was stopped at a light on Leestown Road. As they proceeded into the intersection, the car… Read more »

The Backstreet Boys will soon be heading into the studio to record a new album. Once members wrap up some individual projects, the award-winning group will reunite to record, with a fall release date in mind. Howie Dorough told Billboard: “I’ve done a lot of writing in the past year. I’ve written about 12 songs individually and about 15 songs group-wise. I think we’ll get together again in March, after Kevin (Richardson) gets done with Chicago and Nick (Carter) gets done with his solo tour. I’m hoping to have the new album out at least by September, (but) I’d like… Read more »

The Backstreet Boys say they are the victim of boardroom politics and are fighting back with a $100 million lawsuit against their record label. They have sued Zomba Music Group, saying the record label effectively barred the group from recording a new album because of a preoccupation with a now-completed merger with German media giant Bertelsmann AG. A lawyer for the boy band, one of Zomba’s biggest acts, said on Tuesday the group was seeking $75 million for violation of trademark, $5 million for a lost advance and at least $20 million in punitive damages in the lawsuit filed in… Read more »

The Backstreet Boys will pay a visit to Elwood City in the PBS Kids animated series Arthur at 8 p.m. ET on September 1. Beginning August 19, the Arthur website ( pbskids.org/arthur/backstreet) will feature all new Backstreet Boys-themed content, including music video clips of the group in the prime-time television special, lyrics from the show’s two original songs, and exclusive pages to print and color. In addition, a printable version of the Arthur “It’s Only Rock ‘N’ Roll” promotional poster will be available on the site. The theme song for the show-which is about the world’s most famous aardvark-is sung… Read more »

The Backstreet Boys are planning to shock fans with their next album. Though a spokesperson for the group says a title and release date have not been set, the members are making a concerted effort to transcend the their trademark pop boy-band sound, according to member A.J. McLean. McLean discussed the record Sunday (April 14), when arriving at the taping of MTVIcon: Aerosmith. “It’s not anything like it was before,” he revealed. “It’s a whole new direction. We’re going to be doing rock, we’re going to be doing R&B, we’re going to be doing pop, probably going to be working… Read more »

A former keyboard player with the Backstreet Boys has filed a copyright suit claiming co-ownership of two songs on the group’s Jive album “Black & Blue,” Billboard Bulletin reports. The suit – filed Friday by Tommy Smith in U.S District Court for the Central District in Los Angeles -names group members Nick Carter, Brian Littrell, A.J. McLean, Howard Dorough, and Kevin Richardson. Also named is Zomba Enterprises, the publishing arm of the Zomba Group, which has an undisclosed stake in the songs. Smith claims he co-wrote the songs “The Answer to Our Life” and “Time” with Carter, Littrell, and another… Read more »

Former Backstreet Boys keyboardist-songwriter Tommy Smith filed a lawsuit against the group, the members’ individually owned and operated personal music-publishing companies, and Zomba Enterprises, Inc. in the United States District Court Central District Of California on Friday (March 15). The lawsuit stems from an ongoing dispute between Smith and the Backstreet Boys about credit for songs Smith claims that he co-wrote for the group’s last Jive Records album, Black & Blue (released November 21, 2000). The songs in question are “The Answer To Our Life” and “Time,” according to the court papers. In the suit, Smith claims that he wrote… Read more »