The now-aged but still-recording New Kids on the Block have some whippersnappers competing for the attention of suburban housewives nationwide by the name of the Backstreet Boys.
Brian Littrell, Nick Carter, Howie Dorough and A.J. McLean ar looking to give their boy-band brethren a run for their record gross sales. The quartet has begun working on its sixth studio album, targeted for a late 2008 sacking, just in time to compete with the in style from NKOTB.
The Backstreet Boys (still sans the retired Kevin Richardson) began cranking on the new material while touring Europe last month, according to Billboard. They may debut some of the material during their North American duty tour, which runs through August and September, before putt the wraps on the follow-up to 2007's Unbreakable.
Apparently believing that there's non such a thing as too much Backstreet, the boys ar also working on various side projects.
McLean revealed in March that he finished his solo set. And Dorough's "center" through a Latin-themed CD with singer-producer Jon Secada and George Noriega, the mastermind slow albums for Ricky Martin, Shakira and Jennifer Lopez.
"I've always embraced the Latin rhythms, the Latin sounds, merely the music itself," Dorough tells Billboard. "It's precisely such a feel-good music, and I've always looked up to people like Jon Secada, Ricky Martin, Enrique [Iglesias], who have got done a good crossover.
"It's just a mixture of my American roots in pop music meets my Latin roots. It's gonna be a good, genial of eclectic mixture."
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