June
4 Top Of The Pops Germany

June
5 T4 interview UK

June
6 TRL UK

June
9 Today Show

Hey guys!

Just added some photo galleries, mostly of our boys performing in Europe:) I hope you enjoy them:)


June 4 CD:UK

June 3, GMTV UK

May 30, VIVA TV 17 Germany

Oh, and if anyone's interested in helping me with the site (e.g. posting news) please let me know - I will really need some help now that our boys are everywhere;) My e-mail is backstreet@inbox.lv

thanks to drk_angel8 from LD

BACKSTREET BOYS IncompleteProducer(s): Dan MuckalaWriter(s): D. Muckala, L. Robbins, J. CatesPublisher(s): variousLabel/Catalog Number: Jive/Zomba 69166 (CD promo)Source: Billboard MagazineOriginally Reviewed: April 16, 2005When one artist commands four songs in the top 10 of The Billboard Hot 100—here's looking at you, 50 Cent—perhaps there is no better signal that top 40 radio is potentially suffocating listeners with its one-dimensional focus. Poof: Here is an antidote. It's the return of the Backstreet Boys, and with a ballad at that. Pretty nervy, huh? Fortunately, "Incomplete," the quintet's launch single from new album "Never Gone" (due in June), is an emotion-packed, grown-up tome about relationship struggle and strife, something that the Boys' original audience—who are all probably licensed drivers by now—may be able to relate to. Vocally, BSB aim for a more organic edge, though for better or worse, the act sounds an awful lot like Blessid Union of Souls or Bryan Adams here. The time has come for spring cleaning, and this song suits the airwaves like crisp white sheets.—CT

By Cindy (aka journalistic) from LD

At a time when boy bands’ glorious moment has seemingly come to pass, it is almost a wonder in itself to simply sit back and watch as something remarkable happens. After being blindsided by their less humble, wildly more popular Nsync counterparts at the dawn of a new millennium (no pun intended), the Backstreet Boys, a group encouraged into obscurity by cynical critics (gracefully bowing out of the spotlight in 2001), are returning. Despite the public’s insistence on sealing the group’s metaphorical coffin over four years ago, the Backstreet Boys have taken interesting, incredibly strategic steps over the past 6-12 months to prepare for and almost ensure a successful return. Once again working with Johnny Wright and obviously vowing to take their music in a new direction (now allowing for the word “organic” to actually hold some kind of weight), the group is about to defy all odds. And yet they still are who they are. Save the foolery in interviews for their silly and completely expired rivals of the past; watch them now and it is clear they are simply a calmer, more toned down Backstreet than we may remember. Such is reflected in their ‘comeback’ single, “Incomplete,” a mellow but haunting power ballad featuring live instruments and more meaty lyrical content than they’ve delivered in the past.What we once might have been frustrated by is their apparent disinterest in adapting their music to what’s current: hip hop. But that attitude, the one we might have called ‘boring’ or lacking excitement, is helping them remerge as a popular music entity. They are still the Backstreet Boys, and they are still not putting Nelly or 50 Cent on any of their records. This is where they have succeeded and Nsync (the group once assumed to last longer than Backstreet) failed. Nsync changed too much and too often. Imagine them now releasing an album and throwing Green Day on a track. Any maybe Toby Keith for good measure.The Backstreet fans who’ve remained, who’ve been there since day one and have endured reading critic after critic predict a miserable fate for our Boys, are surely in for a well-deserved sense of pride when “Incomplete” gains popularity and Never Gone hits shelves in June. Turn your nose up, sing along proudly. But first let’s prove there is still only one true driving force behind the Backstreet Boys, and that’s us. Request that song and buy the album, because only we determine whether their comeback is a success. Longevity was their test, and we’re about to watch them pass.

LittrellFans have some photos from the "Incomplete" videoshoot:

http://www.littrellfans.net/gallery/categories.php?cat_id=532

thanks to bazooka from LD
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/_/id/7232456/backstreetboys?pageid=rs.News&pageregion=double1&rnd=1112302926566&has-player=true&version=6.0.12.1040

Backstreet Never Left Boy band, all grown up, returns with first record in four years

Can't hold them back

Backstreet Never Left Boy band, all grown up, returns with first record in four years After a near four-year hiatus, the Backstreet Boys will release Never Gone, their first album since 2001's Black and Blue, in June.
"From '93 to 2001 we were going non-stop," Brian Littrell told Rolling Stone last year. "And we finally got a chance to step back, reflect and really appreciate everything that happened to us."
Recorded in various Los Angeles studios, Never Gone finds the pop group touching upon a wealth of styles. "We're experimenting with different sounds," A.J. McLean said, "and we're not limiting ourselves so much."
The album's first single, a mid-tempo ballad called "Incomplete," is due at radio this week. The Backstreet Boys kicked off a club tour last week with a two-night stand at New York's Irving Plaza, and they will continue touring through mid-April.
Backstreet Boys tour dates:
4/4: Columbus, OH, PromoWest Pavilion4/5: Detroit, State Theater4/6: Pittsburgh, Rock Club at Station Square4/8: Milwaukee, WI, Pabst Theater4/10: St. Louis, Roberts Orpheum Theater4/12: Dallas, Nokia Theater at Grand Prairie4/14: Atlanta, Earthlink Live4/15: Myrtle Beach, SC, House of Blues4/16: Raleigh, NC, Maymandi Auditorium4/18: Norfolk, VA, the NorVaJESSICA ROBERTSON(Posted Mar 31, 2005)

2 new galleries added:

March 25, Up Close and Personal Tour - Philly (HUGE thanks to Jen!)
http://www.bsbguide.com/gallery/2005/2005_03_25_philly_ucap/index.htm

March 29, Cleveland 96.5 Kiss FM
http://www.bsbguide.com/gallery/2005/2005_03_29_cleveland_965kiss/index.htm

Enjoy!

thanks to Sham99 from LD

http://www.billboard.com/bb/livereviews/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000863692

Backstreet Boys / March 28, 2005 / Chicago (House of Blues)
The screaming began before the Backstreet Boys hit the stage. The audience, overwhelmingly female and ranging from pre-teens to adults, screamed every time the tour DJ played something they liked, the floor of the capacity House of Blues undulating with anticipation. But they saved their biggest scream for a song by Justin Timberlake, the break-out star of erstwhile Backstreet Boys rivals 'N Sync.Does this mean the Backstreet Boys had given up? Had they finally conceded that their pop fluff was inferior to 'N Sync's, that they performed a different role in the pop market, a safe, reliable role consciously at odds with the more outre and trendy stylings exemplified by Timberlake and his cohort JC Chasez?Indeed, when the Backstreet Boys hit the stage, dressed in their matching white suits and posed with their imminent choreographed moves in mind, it suddenly seemed as if the last several years of pop music hadn't happened. With what looked like notorious handler Lou Pearlman, the Karl Rove of pop, peering down from his backstage box, the five Backstreet Boys performed all of their instantly recognizable hits, also instantly dated to an innocent time and place when the stock market only went up, Americans felt safe at home, no wars were on the horizon, and boy bands roamed -- and ruled -- the Earth.Of course, the cozy House of Blues is a far cry from past Backstreet Boys' performance peaks; at their apex these guys were filling stadiums. Clearly the BSB could still play a much larger venue if they wanted to, but after almost five years off they felt a club tour was in order to dust off the cobwebs. Even automatons need to loosen up a little once and a while.And loose they were. Shooting grins at one another, laughing and generally playing it very casual, these Boys (now very much men: some married, most tattooed, one out of rehab and another perhaps soon on his way) seemed both refreshed and slightly aware of the silliness of their repertoire. Even the modern day standard "I Want It That Way" was hardly sung with a straight face, and other ballads such "Show Me the Meaning of Being Lonely" and "The Shape of My Heart" came across as somewhat generic. Whenever the Backstreet Boys did try to inject some personality into the songs, their limitations became much more apparent. As singers the group should stick to harmonies, especially since in a club the flaws of their shaky voices were all too obvious. Nick Carter, relishing his position as the group's new bad boy now that A.J. McLean is clean and sober, was particularly sloppy, spoiled by the adoration he nonetheless received by the crowd, while Brian Littrell, Howie Dorough and Kevin Richardson embraced their carefully conditioned blandness to an anonymous degree. Not that the fans cared -- and there still are plenty of Backstreet Boys fans. They cheered nearly as loudly for a handful of new songs as they did for "Larger Than Life" and "Everybody (Backstreet's Back)." Then again, in many ways the new songs were largely indistinguishable from the old. Only time will tell whether that will help or hurt the Backstreet Boys as they try to smile and sway their way into the hearts of a new generation of music buyers.
-- Joshua Klein, Chicago

From www.backstreetboys.com :
3/30/05 - Never GoneIt's official, the new Backstreet Boys album has been named "Never Gone." Don't forget to request Incomplete, the first single off of "Never Gone" when it hits radio stations on April 1st.