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The New Kids on the Block played a huge role in late 80’s/early 90’s music scene. They were the original “boy band”, and helped pave the way for the Backstreet Boys and ‘N Sync. Loyal NKOTB fans still love them, 20 years later. Joey McIntyre promises to bring a “big show” to the old and new NKOTB fans alike.

The group is hitting the road next month to promote their first album in over a decade. The album, which is titled “The Block”, includes the singles “Summertime” and “Single”. The Block has just been recently released this Tuesday, September 2. These new songs, as well as classic NKTOB favorites, are going to be performed during their upcoming tour.

“There’s not gonna be any ferris wheels or trapezes,” Joey has recently stated to Billboard.com. “We’re sticking to the basics.” The New Kids will have some backup dancers, but Joey promises that he and the other New Kids will be “dancing their asses off” as well.

NKOTB have recently finished most rehearsals and they are currently doing interviews and making appearances in order to promote “The Block”. The group will meet up in Toronto on September 15 to practice rehearsals one last time before the start of the tour. They will be practicing for three days before the start of the tour on September 18 at the Air Canada Center.

Joey claims the New Kids will also be playing for a month in Europe next year, and that they are also taking Asia, Australia, and New Zealand into consideration. Rumors are also spreading that they will be touring North America some next summer.

All though NKOTB fans are ecstatic about their reunion, Joey appears to be cautious about a long-term reunion. “The challenge is,” he asks, “How do you keep it fresh and how do you keep it new?” Fans have been asking him and the other New Kids “What are [NKOTB] going to do next?” “…We’ll see”, Joey answers. If the NKOTB can still remain popular after twenty years, we can only hope they’ll have another twenty years left in them.

Despite Britney’s train wreck fiasco from last year’s MTV Video Music Awards, she’s back again this year to kick off the show. Britney has been confirmed to be this year’s show opener. This year marks the 25th anniversary of the MTV VMA’s, and Spears feels honored with her opportunity to kick the show off. “MTV has long played an important role in my career. How can I not be there to kick of their 25th VMA’s?” Britney also claims to feel “excited” about opening “the entire show”.

Spears, who has had a rough and controversial time this past year, finally appears to have cleaned up her act. Britney is not scheduled to perform this year, but she still has an “exciting surprise” planned for her fans. She is nominated, however, for three VMA’s, including Video of the Year for her song “Piece of Me.”

Her embarrassing performance last year with her song “Gimme More,” was the lowest point of her career. MTV has been criticized by other artists, including Kanye West, for “exploiting her” and “ruining her career”. This year, since cleaning up her act, Britney has a chance to prove all of her critics wrong, and perhaps MTV will be redeemed for allowing her to perform in such a horrible fashion last year.

MTV Networks Music Group President Van Toffler stated “It feels like it’s her year. It’s our 25th anniversary of the VMAs and she’s been such a critical piece of MTV’s history.”

Perhaps this year Britney will actually *WIN* an award. Despite being nominated 17 times in the past, she has unfortunately never won. If this is truly “her year” as Toffler has mentioned, hopefully she’ll finally win.

Britney Spears has come a long way from her horrible fiascos from last year. We can only hope that she’ll have better fortune and success this year.

Country superstar Toby Keith claims that his new album, That Don’t Make Me a Bad Guy, will contain “some very different” songs. The upcoming album, set to be released on October 28, is rumored to feature some “steamy love songs”, which Toby describes as being “kind of out of character” for him.

The album’s first single, “She Never Cried in Front of Me”, is already in the Billboard’s Hot 10 Country Songs chart. Bobby Pinson co-wrote it, as well as other songs on the album. Toby credits Bobby for his “creative and inspring style”.

Other possible upcoming singles for the multi-platinum country superstar include “Missin’ Me Some You”, which is inspired by his recent visit to the troops in Iraq, and a Southern rock track called “Cry of the Creole Woman”. “Cry of the Creole Woman” is said to be about “a girl from a bar in Louisiana putting mojo and a curse on a guy”. The song sounds like something that bluegrass legend Robert Johnson would conjure up!

Toby Keith has also been promoting his film, Beer for My Horses, which is based on his 2003 hit song of the same title. The hit song included a duet with country legend, Willie Nelson. Willie Nelson also makes an appearance in the film, along with fellow music legend, Ted Nuget. Toby Keith co-wrote the screen play, which is said to have taken “10 months” to complete. Actress Claire Forlani co-stars along with Toby.

With both a full length, feature film and a new album under his belt, Toby Keith is going to be in the news for some time to come. The album hasn’t even been released yet and is already getting rave reviews from the critics. Fans are also happy so far with the single, “She Never Cried in Front of Me”. Whether you like him or not, Toby Keith is here to stay.

Kanye West is planning the release of his upcoming album with Def Jam. According to his management, the album title is still not officially confirmed. The album, which is rumored to be called “Good Ass Job”, is speculated to be released at the end of this year. This will be his fourth studio album. Kanye’s previous album, Graduation, was released in September of last year and has sold around 2.2 million copies in the United States.

According to rumors, Kanye may be performing a new track called “Love Lockdown”, at the upcoming MTV Video Music Awards this Sunday. The single itself is supposed to hit the stands the on the following day, September 8.

Last year, Kanye became angry over losing at the VMA’s and vowed “never to preform there again.” Kanye has made it no secret that he feels cheated at times during music award shows, even though he has won many. He was also upset over the very small stage he had to preform on last year, as well as MTV “exploiting” Britney Spears.

This year, MTV managed to bring him back once again by promising him both the closing spot and a larger stage. Kanye’s hit song “Homecoming”, which features Chris Martin, is nominated for Best Hip Hop Video. There is a good chance that the song will win.

Kanye has also been working on tracks for fellow rapper Jay-Z’s upcoming album, Blueprint II”. The upcoming single, “Swagger Like Us”, will feature Jay-Z, Kanye West, and other rappers including T.I. and Lil Wayne.

Jay Z’s upcoming album itself, Paper Trail, will be hitting stores at the end of this month. Kanye will be featured on other tracks as well.

Nickelback’s follow-up to their 2005 album, “All the Right Reasons”, is set to be released on November 18 from Roadrunner records. The upcoming album, which is currently untitled, will feature their upcoming single, “If Today Was Your Last Day”. This will be the first single from the as of yet untitled album, and it will be hitting U.S. radios on September 30.

Nickelback is currently recording other songs for the album with Mutt Lange in Vancouver. Producer Mutt Lange, who is Shania Twain’s ex husband, hasn’t worked on any new projects since his ex-wife’s 2003 album, Up.

Their previous album, All the Right Reasons, sold nearly 7 million copies in the United States, according to Nielsen Sound Scan. Nickelback signed a deal with Live Nation in July, giving them rights to recordings once the Roadrunner deal is completed. They are expected to perform in Live Nation amphitheaters early next year.

Live Nation is a popular, concert-promoting organization that has also worked with Madonna and Jay-Z. They have also recently signed deals with U2 and Shakira, as well as Nickelback. Live Nation’s multi-rights deal with Nickelback has been confirmed to be worth $50-$70 million. The band will be receiving the money overtime as they perform in Live Nation theaters around the world.

Live Nation has acquired twelve artist rights with Nickelback, including: touring, fan club rights, tour sponsorship, travel packages, licensing, endorsements, etc. Nickelback’s merchandising team will also work with Live Nation in the future. Live Nation recently stated that the “deal contemplates all areas of Nickelback’s music enterprises”. This deal includes at least three tours and albums.

Live Nation obviously means business where Nickelback is concerned. They’re going to make certain that Nickelback brings the roof down at all of their amphitheaters. Nickelback ranked 20th place among touring acts in 2007, and if all goes as planned with Live Nation, they’ll most likely rank even higher this time around.

Blues music is mostly known for its deep inclination towards the African-American community of the US. This music genre is well characterised by the instrumental and vocal music, the profound base of which is found to be on the blue notes. The concept of this music genre arises from that of chants, spirituality, ballads and work songs. However, the foundation of many other popular music forms, like heavy metal, jazz, rhythm and blues and hip-hop is based on Blues music.

The other major characteristic of Blues music is that it reflects the singer’s profound mood, especially that of depression and sadness. The first Blues music released to express the depressed mood was Hart Wand’s ‘Dallas Blues’. There is some kind of common distinctiveness in this music genre. However, the pre-blues music could be simply a solong song with some kind of emotional touch. The lyrics of the blues music are completely based on reputation. The mournful tunes successfully manage to capture the essence of the music lovers.

For those who are not very acquainted with the Hip-Hop culture or types of Rap music, you are probably not aware of the fact that Rap music comes in a variety of different forms. These different genres of music have been around for ages. Some of the popular ones include:

• West Coast: The West Coast rap music enjoyed huge popularity all over the nation in the middle of the 1980s.
• East Coast: This music genre is mostly noted in the city of New York with Big Daddy Kane and Rakim breaking through the music form to emerge as a nationally coveted phenomenon.
• Dirty South: The hiphop artists down the south popularised this music form and broke the age-old notion that rap music is only the element of the north.
• Pop Rap: This genre of music is well-known for its pervasive and mainstream appeal.
• Christian Rap: This form of music took off greatly in the later stages of the 1980s and got extremely popular in the early 1990s.

Pop rap, Jazz rap, Electro rap, Conscious rap and others are some of the other well-known rap music forms.

The genre, techno music mainly derives its origin from that of technology. It can be described as a music genre which makes heavy uses of studio effects as well as synthetic sounds. The music form lays full emphasis on the beat rather than that of the lyrics and any other song elements. This genre gained the most prominence in during the era of 1980s. Following that it became hugely popular in United States, especially in regions like Detroit and Michigan. To be more precuise, techno music gradually spread its wings from Detroit itself.

Techno music was particularly made for the club audience who preferred to rock themselves to the groovy and hard beats. The compositions of this genre can also be made in several ways and traditional tunes and lyrics are completely shunned from this kind of music. The most efefctive forms of techno music were made from that of cleverly mixed patterns of a diverse number of songs and musical instruments.

Indian classical music is known for its imagination, fancy and thought. Both the North and South Indian forms of classical music differ from each other vividly. ‘Khayal’ is the vocal genre of North Indian music and the origin of the same can be traced back to the Mughal era. The most important feature of the North Indian classical music is the presumed freedom. It can also be distinguished as a rick and improvising music genre. The North Indian classical music genre was popularised by Aamir Khusrau in between 1251 and 1326.

The other forms of Indian classical music comprises of dhamar, dhrupad, tarana, tappa, hori, thumri and bhajan. Dhrupad is consiedered to be the oldest form of classical vocal music form in the Indian subcontinent. The beauty of the Indian classical music lies in the intricate and rapid exhibit of permutation of notes, the temperation being varied and the notes being intense.

The Christian music was made to gain prominence by Switchfoot and Lifehouse and today it is considered to be one of the most popular music genres. The modern age has brought a complete transformation to this music genre and today it has gained much admiration in the hearts of the people who does not believe in any particular faith.

Throughout the last 10 years there have been some major changes in how a person can be described as Christian music. It is also some kind of music which is well accepted by people who do not belong to some particular kind of religious faith.

Christian music is gaining worldwide popularity in the recent times due to its diverse types and classifications. The fact that nowadays people are not averse to listen to something new and different, also results in the soaring popularity of this music genre. It is more known as a penetrating kind of music form which spreads the message of the Lord in an appealing and invigorating manner.