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  • NKOTB + NE = Hit Single?!?

    It’s the boy band equivalent of a supergroup.

    New Kids on the Block have joined forces with their predecessors New Edition for a song called “Full Service” that will appear on NKOTB’s upcoming September release. Both groups are celebrating anniversaries this year: the New Kids are celebrating twenty years since the release of their breakthrough album “Hangin’ Tough”, and New Edition is celebrating their 25th anniversary as a group.

    New Edition\'s 1984 hit single \"Cool it Now\"

    These groups share a lot of history. Both were formed in Boston, with the New Kids coming about only after New Edition had left writer/producer Maurice Starr’s camp in search of major label money. There’s been a bit of (rightful) bitterness on New Edition’s part because the New Kids were afforded opportunities that the significantly more talented NE guys weren’t- and we can probably correctly surmise that the ethnic make up of the two groups was responsible for that.

    NKOTB\'s #1 smash \"Step By Step\" from 1990

    Anyway, I’m definitely looking forward to what Ronnie, Ricky, Mike, Ralph, Johnny, Donnie, Danny, Joe, Jon and Jordan will come up with (sometime N.E. member Bobby Brown did not participate in the recording session). If the New Kids and New Edition can settle their differences and work together, does that mean there’s hope for the Middle East?

  • Goodbye Yellow Brickle Road: Elton John & Ben & Jerry’s Team Up For Charity

    I’m not the world’s biggest Elton John fan (yeah, sacrilege, I know) and I’m not the world’s biggest Ben & Jerry’s fan. Well…correction, I could potentially eat the entire contents of the average Ben & Jerry’s, but I’m diabetic.

    At any rate, to honor Elton John’s upcoming show in the state of Vermont (fun fact: Vermont is the only state that Sir Elton has never played in), B&Js is creating a flavor called Goodbye Yellow Brickle Road. Consisting of chocolate, cookie dough and peanut butter, the flavor is obviously named for Elton’s massive hit album from the mid-Seventies.

    I am definitely in admiration of the Rocket Man’s charity work over the years, and all the proceeds for sales of this ice cream flavor will go to benefit the Elton John AIDS foundation, an organization which has raised hundreds of million dollars for AIDS research since its inception in the early Nineties.

    So, forget your calorie counter and do something good for the world…pick up a tub of this stuff.

    Now, off to find out what “brickle” is…

    http://www.benjerry.com/

    http://www.eltonjohn.com/

    Want a bonus? Here’s a vid of my favorite EJ song.

  • Steven Page: Just About The Last Person You’d Expect To Be Busted For Drugs

    Never thought you’d hear the words “Barenaked Ladies” and “drug bust” in the same sentence? Well…

    Barenaked Ladies singer/guitarist Steven Page. Photo courtesy of TheHypo
    BNL lead singer Steven Page

    Steven Page, lead singer of Canadian rock band Barenaked Ladies was busted last Friday for possession of a controlled substance in Syracuse, NY (Syracuse? Really?). Cops, suspicions aroused by a car with one door open (?), found married dad Page (whose band just released a children’s album, for crying out loud!) along with two women (??) in a nearby apartment with cocaine and pot. I wonder if the ladies were barenaked??? BWAHAHHAHHAHHA…

    (For those who aren’t really up on their BNL, they are the guys who sing “One Week”, and “If I Had $1,000,000”. Of the group’s two main singers, Steven Page is the fairer, sort of chunky one with the big voice, while Ed Robertson is the darker, more nerdy-sounding one)

    But anyway, I won’t say anything bad about Steven Page. I’m actually extremely fond of BNL..well at least I was until that “Barenaked Ladies are Men” crap. They’re one of the best live bands I’ve ever seen (and the only rock band I know who could get away with a cover of Destiny’s Child’s “Bootylicious”, as they performed the night I saw them). But seriously…who’d have thought that the singer of songs like “Be My Yoko Ono” and “Brian Wilson” was capable of Winehousity??