New Kids Destiny blog

New Joey Mac Blog

2008-08-26T22:16:00.001-07:00

Three weeks away from the tour and I still haven’t sold the guys on The Rockettes. Danny is on the fence, so that’s a start. Ah, show biz.
-jm

Blog from Donnie Wahlberg

2008-08-26T22:14:00.001-07:00

Monday, August 25th, 2008
Donnie bloggin’

YOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!

ALBUM DROPPING 1 WEEK- CHECK!

TODAY SHOW IN 1 WEEK- CHECK!

TOUR IN 3 1/2 WEEKS- CHECK!

FACE TIME- CHECK CHECK CHECK!!!!!

IT IS TIME TO GET YOUR MIND RIGHT FOR THE PARTY THAT IS COMING YOUR WAY!!!!

Are you READY?

ARE YOU READY????

You aint ready……

GET READY!!!!!!!

GET READY!!!!!!!!

The album The tour The love The face time…..

THIS ENTIRE YEAR…..

IS ALL FOR YOU!!!!!

PS- I expect a lot of hugs!!!!

PSS- I AM SO F@#*+$G FIRED UP FOR THIS FALL!!!!!

As Always- Your Man!!!!

~Donnie W

Blog from Donnie Wahlberg

2008-08-26T22:14:00.000-07:00

New Kids On The Block - THE BLOCK - OFFICIAL TRACK LISTING

2008-08-07T21:56:00.000-07:00

Finally the complete track listing for the new NKOTB album "The Block" has been made available! - Grimpuppy from Grimpuppy.com - The Blog. Click link to view Grimpuppy.com's blog articles on New Kids On The Block.

The Block - Standard Version (Digital & Physical)

1. Click Click Click
2. Single (with Ne-Yo)
3. Big Girl Now (featuring Lady Gaga)
4. Summertime
5. 2 In The Morning
6. Grown Man (featuring Pussycat Dolls and Teddy Riley)
7. Dirty Dancing
8. Sexify My Love
9. Twisted
10. Full Service (featuring New Edition)
11. Lights, Camera, Action
12. Put It on My Tab (featuring Akon)
13. Stare at You

Joey Mac Blog

2008-07-27T01:41:00.001-07:00

Yo!

A little somethin’ somethin’ from rehearsals. Things are slowly
speeding up ( I think that’s an oxymoron).
Excited about meeting the fans who are flying in to see a sneak peek
rehearsal. We think it’ll be good for us. Make us stay on point :)
I think we are gonna have a lot of laughs!!
I’m sure the rest of the guys will fill you in on all the shananigans.
Gotta get back to practice!
Xoxox
-jm

Donnie Wahlberg blog

2008-07-27T01:39:00.000-07:00

Thursday, July 24th, 2008
Donnie checks in from rehearsal!

Whats Good All??

Hope all is well.

Gotta say….

Our album is coming out great!!!

(At least in my humble opinion…….)

On a side note…

While I enjoy any hype for our album….

And while I also (sometimes) enjoy the audacity of people writing blatantly fabricated “news” articles…

We are NOT recording with Michael Jackson and/or Madonna.

We never claimed to be either.

Good fun reading about though!

Sorry to let ya down…. Or not.

Anyway….

Can’t wait til you all hear who we did do some collabo’s with!!!!

Ha!

GET READY….. WE’RE COMING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Much Love-

Donnie W

PS- WE ARE COMING! YA HEARD ME?

Sad News: http://xat.com/knightsandwich Amythyst was banned by Daisy

2008-07-27T01:24:00.000-07:00

Okay....Banning me for no reason whatsoever was wrong...I was explaining how NKOTB saved my life...I got a little carried away...People have social phobias....Damn....If anyone was uncomfortable about me and me saying what I did then say something to me and I will stop...I apologize....We're all adults here...not little kids...if you have a problem, SPEAK UP!!! It's been quite a few years since I have been on a chat....I came to make friends...online and off....There's no rules posted whatsoever on that chat...I wasn't insulting, harassing or anything to anyone...I was talking....I got the subtle hint, I log off and log back on to find that I've been banned....

Thank You...
Amythyst

Sad News: http://xat.com/knightsandwich Amythyst was banned by Daisy

2008-07-27T00:44:00.000-07:00

The chat room that me and Destiny had met some cool friends at http://xat.com/knightsandwich banned Destiny today... with no real reason from the user Daisy. :( Then for no reason they banned me (Grimpuppy) just because I am with her. She was just having fun as usual and then they just banned her... they really need to change the message that stats below "DO NOT behave" to "talk only about what we want you to". This was a great chat but Destiny is on some new meds and was not her normal self and after the ban they began to talk about her in a not so nice way! NKOTB I know you read this blog so I hope you can let everybody know that there is much better ways to go about this then the quick ban and the bad mouthing after she had left... and I guess the support between NKOTB fans is not as strong as I thought. This would never happen in a chat of my fav band. - Grimpuppy

NKOTB

2008-07-19T04:21:00.001-07:00

For once, all the rumors are actually true.

“The Right Stuff” really is — at long last — returning to your block. Thankfully, this time, it’s all happening in the right way too.

New Kids On The Block — five now fully-grown men who forever defined what the modern boy band would look and sound like — are back together for the very first time in nearly a decade and a half, and currently hard at work on their first new album since 1994. That still untitled album should be released sometime this summer, preceded by the New Kid’s first new single since the Nineties, and followed in the fall by an already hotly anticipated international concert tour.

On a March afternoon, Jordan Knight, Jonathan Knight, Joey McIntyre, Donnie Wahlberg and Danny Wood are gathered together, hanging tough all over again in a small Los Angeles studio looking a little older, but still youthful, fit and anxious to not simply celebrate their musical legacy, but also add something new and personally meaningful to it. In the late Eighties and early Nineties, while still teenagers themselves, New Kids on the Block became a phenomenon, selling over 70 million albums – including the back-to-back international number one efforts, 1988’s Hangin’ Tough and 1990’s Step By Step — and a series of crossover smash R&B, pop hits like “You Got It (The Right Stuff),” “Cover Girl,” “Didn’t I (Blow Your Mind This Time),” “Hangin’ Tough,” “I’ll Be Loving You,” “Step By Step” and “Tonight” — as well as countless number of concert tickets, t-shirts and even lunchboxes to primarily female kids around the world. Then under the guidance of producer Maurice Starr who had previously brought the world New Edition, the New Kids made a tremendous impact on the culture very quickly.

“I think history has looked upon us fondly,” say McIntyre. “I wouldn’t say we were important, but people do now see our place in pop history. We’ve read that we ..begat the boy bands” like Backstreet Boys and N’Sync. And in a way, those groups have all made us more contemporary. They made us younger in a way by putting us in their generation. But hey, what about New Edition? There would be no New Kids without them. And of course, the Jackson Five begat New Edition. So I guess we were really just the first white boy band.”

These days, four of the five Kids have kids themselves, as well as assorted careers and lives of their own, and so their decision to reunite had been an adult if joyful one that they’ve taken very seriously. That’s why this time around – even with the assistance of a great new team including Interscope Records and the Azoff Management team, it’s the original Kids themselves who have taken charge of their own destiny with new music that they found and funded themselves.

“We’re not kids, we’re just the guys now,” Donnie Wahlberg says with a smile as he takes a break from the recording sessions that started this past winter and have taken on a momentum of its own this spring. Long the hold out from any sort of New Kids On The Block reunion, Wahlberg – who has enjoyed considerable success as a constantly working actor in the intervening years – has long made it clear that he had absolutely no interest in simply cashing in on the Kid’s good name. “We’ve had so many offers from so many people over the years, but I’ve always protected the asset,” he says. “We never sold the New Kids house to anyone. And until we got together in a recording studio in Orlando two months ago, I haven’t even been in the same room with these five guys for fifteen years.”

And this time, it’s the boys – make that, the men – in the group who are in charge.

“We took the initiative instead of going out and asking for help from a label or anyone,” McIntyre explains. “We just started recording because we wanted to and because we were ready. We started doing this from the ground up –just us.”

The brand new New Kids album was really sparked when Wahlberg was in New York for a costume fitting for the upcoming film Righteous Kill that finds him living out another life-long dream by acting in a film alongside two of his greatest heroes, Robert DeNiro and Al Pacino as well as 50 Cent. Finding himself around the block, Wahlberg visited the office of his longtime music lawyer who handed him a demo tape of a young singer-songwriter name Nazeree. Since the days of New Kids — and his time producing hits in the early Nineties for his brother Mark as Markey Mark and The Funky Bunch – Wahlberg has been handed a mountain of demos in his time and he took the offering with absolutely no expectations.

Putting the CD on while driving a few days later, Wahlberg heard two songs that spoke to him powerfully. “I got in the car in Boston on my birthday and I popped it in,” he recalls. “ The first song was called ..Click, Click, Click’ and from the minute it started, it just grabbed me. I kept waiting for this kid to falter, but he never did. Not only that – I immediately recognized that Joey McIntryre is going to love this record, Jordan Knight is going to love this record and I love this record. The music speaks to all of our sensibilities, but they’re all totally different. It was hip-hop and honest enough for me. It was soulful enough for Jordan and pop and unselfish enough for Joe. It just had it all. I spent the next few hours driving up to girls at red lights and playing them the song. They said, ..Is that your song? I said ..Not yet.’”

After years of blocking any reunion, Wahlberg was suddenly energized and drove to Jordan Knight’s house that night and played him the songs, “I told him. ..Jordan, this could be the moment right here.’ Jordan heard ..Click, Click, Click’ and he loved it. Then I emailed them to Joe and the same reaction — and more importantly his wife cried. So I pulled out my checkbook and we started going.”

What had started was more like a mission than a comeback.

“See what I discovered is that the self-respect I have as an actor was hard to have in music,” Wahlberg explains. “Parts of what we went through were kind of prefabricated – though the whole New Kids machine only started once we got the ball rolling. It was grass roots before that. Maurice Starr was the guy behind our success, but we were in it from day one. So over the years, I’ve often thought I’d like to experience the group with that feeling of self-respect — instead of just the fame and hysteria, so it’s not about just getting something back, but about really doing something.”

In the months that followed, Wahlberg and the other Kids would collaborate closely with Nazaree, who turned out to be a New Kids fan since childhood, as well as other gifted producers and writers including Bryan-Michael Cox, Emanuel Kiriakou, RedOne and Fernando on an new album that blends the melodic soul of vintage New Kids with a decidedly contemporary, hip hop feel.

“Donnie was right,” McIntyre explains. “The new music we’re making reignited this whole thing so it’s not just cashing in on pure nostalgia for the old days.”

Of the group’s demise back in the mid-Nineties, McIntyre explains, “We were just fried. What happened to us in the span of a couple years was mind-blowing, and no one really knew what it was. We were learning as it went. A lot of groups today know the mold and plan accordingly. We didn’t start out with the idea that in two years we’d be playing stadiums. So by the end of our touring obligations in like 1992, we just want to go home. We had moved on and then music had totally moved on. Grunge happened. Rock and roll came back. We never slammed the door shut – we just sort of walked away. And at that point, we weren’t exactly going to hold a press conference because no one really cared.”

“It’s the thing about being in a boy band,” Wahlberg says. “In some ways we were much more in control than people could ever imagine back then. But in some ways, you can’t control anything.”

In the studio today, all five seem to be getting along and contributing something to the whole.

“I think the thing with us is that we always hung onto the fact that we were buddies first,” Joey McIntyre explains. “This wasn’t a cattle call or a reality show. The point is this wasn’t a business first. It’s wasn’t even a business second. This was a business last. And in the end, we stayed friends and didn’t judge each other two much, which could get frustrating. But the pay off for that is that almost 20 years later, we can get together, hang out and have fun. It’s different now, it’s a little more planned out and professional, but we’re still a bunch of guys who love doing this and want every show to be our best.”

Now that the five Kids are standing together and planning to hit the road with a new show, simply reviving the old hits isn’t enough. “No, I want this to be redemption — but not for us,” Wahlberg explains. “I want it to be redemption for the fans. I want them to feel entertained, to feel treated to something special. And I want them to be so satisfied by what they get that they’ll realize they weren’t crazy all those years ago — that they put their heart into the right place back then and that it was worth the wait to come back again.”

Make no mistake; the New Kids intend to play all the familiar hits – along with some brand new ones too. “Our old songs aren’t necessarily standards — they were pretty sweet — but it’s going to be fun in a live show. People come to hear that music, so we’re going to sing it with basically the same sound. We’re not doing a reggae version of our three biggest hits because when I see that, it pisses me off. Even I’m like ..Spare me.’ We have something like ten top ten hits, which is amazing. So if we do those and five new songs, we’ll have a hell of a show. We will give the people what they want to hear.

So what will a New Kids On The Block concert look like in 2008?

“ We’re still young, we’re still hot,” McIntryre answers with a laugh. “Our fans are between 25 and 35 now because they were really young then. They’re still very attractive — and very legal. So it’s going to be a girls night out. I know my wife’s going to be there every step of the way, but it’s still going to be fun.”

Yes, the wait has been a long one, but it won’t be much longer now.

“The snowball is getting pretty big,” McIntrye adds as he and his four old friends get back to work. “And it’s heading down the mountain now.”

Joey in Boston Public clip

2008-07-19T03:52:00.000-07:00

Here is the Joey Mac and Anne Archer love scenes...(catch flies another time Joey) :P

New Kids Destiny site changes and our NKOTB Image Gallery back online.

2008-07-18T22:31:00.000-07:00

Sorry about the downtime but New Kids Destiny's image gallery is back up and running! New Kids Destiny NKOTB image gallery

Also we are going to be doing some new pages, editing and also adding a new forum and members area in the next few weeks. The blog is going to get a major overhaul as we edit the blog theme to make the blog more kick a**! So make sure to bookmark us and check back! Thanks! - Grimpuppy

NEW blog from Danny Wood

2008-07-18T19:30:00.000-07:00

Thursday, July 17th, 2008
Danny and Germany!

Hi everyone,
We are back from Germany and it was amazing. Through out this experience I never know what to expect. The German fans are more than ready for THE BLOCK just like everyone here and in Canada. The support was unbelievable and it was awesome. Every where we went people where there to support us. We are looking forward to the European tour next year.
I want to rundown our week for you so maybe you will get an idea of what it was like.
We arrived Monday July 7th to Germany. We took the day to recuperate from jet lag, see the movie set, and have a fitting for our crazy medieval outfits.
Tuesday we filmed, as ourselves in medieval times, with the amazing German director/actor Til Schweiger. It was a fun day aside from the black soot we all inhaled during the filming. After we finished we where blowing out black boogers. There where flames being blown thru the air through out our performance. It was a pleasure working with Til and we look forward to the release of the movie in December.
Wednesday was the big international press conference. It was amazing to see over 200 European journalists in the room. I always feel like we are just those 5 guys from Boston and how did we end up here. It was a very humbling experience. The rest of the day was spent doing tons of European press and we didn’t finish until nighttime.
Thursday and Friday NKOTB was split into 2 groups so we could cover more ground. We went to Frankfurt, Munich, Cologne, Hamburg, Kiel, Hannover, Magdeburg and then all got back together in Berlin. We visited radio stations, TV stations, did print interviews and Internet outlets. It was great and felt really good to be so productive.
I need to personally thank Sven Kilthau-Lander, Jurgen Grebner, and the whole Universal Records staff for the amazing job they did in Germany. We are looking forward to all our future endeavors in Europe.
We are back in L.A. for tour rehearsals. September 18th is coming soon and we are so excited.

Love Danny

New Album cover and title announced

2008-07-18T16:25:00.001-07:00

CLICK IMAGE ABOVE TO VIEW FULL SIZE PICTURE

Here is the picture of NKOTB's NEWEST album called "The Block" released Sept. 2nd 2008 - Destiny

NKOTB - Autographs/performace at Mall Of America

2008-07-18T16:19:00.001-07:00

Friday, July 18th, 2008
EXCLUSIVE BEST BUY GRAND OPENING PERFORMANCE AND AUTOGRAPH SIGNING!

MINNEAPOLIS, MN
EXCLUSIVE BEST BUY GRAND OPENING PERFORMANCE AND AUTOGRAPH SIGNING!
FRIDAY, AUGUST 8th at 5:30PM., ROTUNDA AT MALL OF AMERICA

let’s have this part only be on the full news item, not the homepage:
Autograph session immediately follows a live performance. Reserve a place in the autograph line by pre-ordering the NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK CD “THE BLOCK” at Best Buy Mall of America (Mall of America location only). Pre-order “The Block” for $9.99, starting at 10:00 A.M Friday, August 8th at Best Buy. Limited edition autograph wristbands will be issued with pre-orders on a first come first serve basis. Quantites are limited.* Mall of America parental escort policy applies.**

*Autograph passes only available with pre-orders placed at Best Buy Mall of America location. Consumer must present receipt at Best Buy Mall of America to pick up pre-ordered CD between 9/2/08 and 9/6/08.
**Mall of America Parental Escort Policy: On Friday and Saturday evenings, youth under 16 must be accompanied by and adult 21 years or older from 4:00 p.m. until close. One adult may supervise up to 10 youth. Anyone 21 years or younger should be prepared to show current valid ID with proof of age during parental escort hours.

Joey Mac Blog

2008-07-16T15:43:00.000-07:00

July 14th

“Alle funf!!!!”
Means “all 5″ in German.
That’s all I can say in German so far.
We had a blast… a lot of work but having our fans show up
everywhere we go made it a lot easier.

The schnitzel was on point. And we couldn’t believe how tall
everyone was- men and women. Damn! I felt like Ryan Seacrest over there.

So its back to rehearsal and putting together the greatest show on earth
by the “5 hardest working kids in show business”.

Let’s get this!

xoxo
-jm

New Kids On The Block on Charter OnDemand

2008-07-13T16:18:00.000-07:00

My Husband found the Summertime video on Charter On Demand on Music Choice....KICK ASS!!!!! :) had to share...

blog from Donnie

2008-07-02T21:30:00.001-07:00

Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Donnie says…

Hey All-

Mixing the album- HOT!
Rehearsing for the tour- HOT!
Meeting many fans new and old- HOT!
Temperature in L.A.- CRAZY HOT!!!!!
Celtics won the Championship- SIZZLIN’
(Maybe that’s why its so hot in L.A.????)
Much Music Video Awards- HOT & WET!
Rihanna in her catsuit- STEAMING HOT!!
Three months til the jump off- SSSSS!

Get ready!

Last thing- all fans be forewarned!!!! I ain’t hiding in my hotel on this tour! I am coming to, and I will, FIND YOU!!! I expect to meet you, speak with you, and get some face time with as many of you as possible. That’s my word!

Let’s have some fun!!

My Love-

dw

NKOTB on access hollywood

2008-07-02T21:27:00.000-07:00

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
TUNE IN! ACCESS HOLLYWOOD 7/4/08

Access Hollywood will re-air NKOTB behind the scenes and video at the end of the episode!

Air dates/times:
July 4th @ 7:30 PM on NBC 4 in New York and Los Angeles - Please check local listings across the country

article posted by Joey Mac

2008-06-21T22:28:00.001-07:00

Thursday, June 19th, 2008
“A Toronto Thing?” - Joey Mac

So Toronto was off the chain as you heard from Danny. Personally, I think we were a little more loose (if that’s possible) north of the border because we were in another country. Seems like Canada is so close, so you might not think its a big difference from the U.S. if you haven’t been there, but it is.Some of the cliches are true. Canadians are much more laid back than us. They are much less affected by all the craziness we surround ourselves with in the States. In short, I think the love flows a little easier up there. Don’t get me wrong, I’m proud to be an American, I just think we could learn something from O’ Canada.

So anyway, we had a great time at the Much Music Awards…once again it rained on our performance. I think we’re gonna start worrying if it doesn’t rain on show days now. It’s always fun to be around other bands and artists, hanging out, checking out the different vibes. Rihanna is stunn-ing. Sum 41, who are the favorite sons of Canada, wore vintage New Kids t-shirts. They saw an interview we did the day before where I said that they were gonna be our back up band because we didn’t have our band. They got the joke. Their reaction was very Canadian to me. (Wow, I think I might move there. No Sa!)

So check it…we are leaving sound check and this girl stops Jordan and says, “will you take a picture with my dog?” And Jordan obliges her. As the girl is taking the shot, she says, “Jordan, over here. Over here!” So Jordan’s like, “I’m looking.” And she says, “no, I’m talking to the dog. His name is Jordan.” AAHGADOOJH!!!! She named her dog after her fave New Kid. Not the craziest thing we’ve ever heard, but worthy of notice.

SO THEN… I’m at a party that night before the show and I meet two sisters. One points out that her sister was a huge fan of mine and so she named her hamster after me. Strange, but again at this point, we’ve kinda heard it all. But then it went over the top when I bumped into them later and the sister said, “Oh, when little Joey died, it was baaaad, real bad. She was….” And before she could go into the details of her sister’s trauma of losing her little hampster Joe, the other mortified sister cut her off abruptly and pulled her away. I wasn’t sure if she was embarrassed because she was talking about something personal or that it was kind of morbid to say I had died? Naming your pets after your favorite New Kids, is that a Toronto thing?

-JM

Danny Blog

2008-06-21T22:26:00.001-07:00

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
NEW blog from DANNY!

Wow!!!! We just did The MuchMusic Video awards in Toronto. The show went off without a hitch, in the rain again. The slippery stage was almost irrelevant and the crowd reaction was awesome. The fan support has been so unbelievable and I am so grateful. At every turn on this ride, new and amazing things are happening. Most of all, the fun we are having is beyond anything I anticipated. Every aspect of what we are doing this time is better.

Now the real work begins. Time to go into lock down tour rehearsals. We are determined to put together a great show. I am. Looking forward to the challenge. We have to match how intensely you guys have supported us :)

Thanks again!

Love,

Danny

NKOTB Summertime video

2008-06-08T18:06:00.000-07:00

Here is it...The New Kids On The Block Summertime video....Enjoy...

Making of Summertime video part 2

2008-06-04T11:40:00.000-07:00

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
Making The Video - Part 2!

watch it HERE

Win NKOTB concert tickets

2008-06-04T11:11:00.000-07:00

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
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45 sec clip on NKOTB's Video Summertime

2008-06-03T10:42:00.000-07:00

New Bullentin Post from Danny Wood on Myspace

2008-06-03T10:18:00.000-07:00

Jun 3, 2008 5:23 AM
4 New Music Players On Page
You can find 4 new music players on the front of the page.

Each player plays 4 tracks..

These tracks are off Danny's Cd's
ROOM FULL OF SMOKE
(There are 2 different Cd covers for this Cd.

It has also been listed under the title
ROOM FULL OF SMOKE PART 1)

ROOM FULL OF SMOKE VOL 2

O.F.D.

UNPLUGGED

SECOND FACE

Some of these Cd's can be found on Amazon. com
Second Face can also be found on Itunes..