Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK star DONNIE WAHLBERG lost his nerve during a recent softball game - when he found himself pitching to ROBERT DE NIRO. The actor's softball skills ...
Frivolous People (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
... to throw strikes in that softball game.' I said, 'Don't worry, I'll throw strikes.'"But then, says Donnie, "... steps into the batter's box and it's no big deal, but, when they said 'action,' at that moment it occurred to me that if this pitch is inside I'm gonna hit ! And that's gonna be a problem. But if it's outside I'm gonna have Jon Avnet screaming at me in front of the whole crew."So,...
People (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008
Ever wonder what it’s like to spend a night with Donnie Wahlberg? Here’s an inside peek at an all-night New Kids on the Block recording session as Donnie and the guys work on two tracks – "Big Girl Now" and "2 in the morning" – off their new album, The Block, to be released Tuesday. Two things that are made clear in the video: A) Donnie can’t detach himself from his BlackBerry...
IndieLondon (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
NEW Kids On The Block have reformed and have announced on an eight-date tour of the UK in January 2009. The jaunt kicks off in Manchester on January 16, before coming to the O2 Arena on January 24 and ending in Cardiff on the 29th. The reformed New Kids On The Block is comprised of Jordan Knight, Jonathan Knight, Joey McIntyre, Donnie Wahlberg and Danny Wood and they’re back together...
Manchester Evening News (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
Featuring all the original members (Jordan Knight, Jonathan Knight, Joey McIntyre, Donnie Wahlberg and Danny Wood), the five-piece have also returned to the studio with LP, The Block, out this week. The band were actually the blueprint pop impresario Nigel Martin-Smith aimed to ape when he put together Take That in the early 1990s and it’s no wonder as NKOTB went on to sell over 80 million...
USA Today (Free subscription) | 20 hours ago
NKOTB, as the group also was known to its predominantly preadolescent fans back in its late '80s/early '90s heyday, also includes Knight's brother Jonathan and Donnie Wahlberg, both 39, and Joey McIntyre, 35. Collectively, they have nine children, including three teenagers. Wahlberg's 7-year-old son, Elijah, makes a cameo appearance on The Block, New Kids' first album in nearly...
MakeUsHot.com (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
New Kids on the Block are coming back to the pop world with their new album, ‘The Block’ — their first since splitting 14 years ago. All five original Kids — Joey McIntyre, Donnie Wahlberg, Danny Wood, and brothers Jordan and Jonathan Knight — previewed their reunion tour by filming an intimate performance in front [...]
Backseat Cuddler (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
... of the quarter. The Timbaland-produced “Twisted” is nice too.The only drawbacks on the album are Donnie Wahlberg’s rapping (on more than a couple tracks), Jonathan Knight’s non-existent presence (kinda like he’s just along for authenticity purposes) and the uber-trendy use of the vocoder on the banally-titled “Sexify My Love” (doesn’t Madonna get some kind of royalty cut from the...
Miami Herlad (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
... have tried for years to reunite the Boston quintet - and had been working on their solo careers, Donnie Wahlberg was busy acting, Danny Wood was making the rounds in reality TV and Jonathan Knight was involved in real estate - the timing wasn't right until this year.Squeeze (Sept. 19, ) has broken up twice before, making this latest go-round a charming third time for Chris Difford...
media jakarta (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK RETURN TO THE BLOCK ICONIC POP GROUP RETURNS WITH NEW ALBUM AND SOLD-OUT TOUR Pop supergroup New Kids On The Block are back. Joey McIntyre, Donnie Wahlberg, Danny Wood and Jordan and Jonathan Knight return on September 8, 2008 with “ The Block ”, their first album together in almost 15 years. Featuring the first single, the hit mellow jam ‘ Summertime ’, the album...
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
... come. All of us would've been there but some of the guys were flying in on later flights."Bandmate Donnie Wahlberg adds: "You hear the cliches about the fans but it's true, what would we be without them'..."It took a hurricane to stop it. The first time we were here, it was freezing rain. The second time, it was torrential rain. Then this time, it took a hurricane. And you know what,...
Seattle Weekly (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
A n employee at a Seattle Banana Republic told me he used to press his penis into his sister's New Kids on the Block bedsheets and pretend Donnie Wahlberg was giving him a blowjob. He refused to continue his story when he found out I was a journalist--which simultaneou...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
... squealing fans, slogan pillowcases, lunchboxes and dolls, not to mention lip-synching allegations. Donnie Wahlberg, one of the five members of the group (and, if I remember rightly, the band's token "bad boy"), announced the reformation in March this year, a single was released in May and a reunion tour will commence in Canada later this month. We can surely now expect more reunions...
Reuters (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
... You," before breaking up in the mid-1990s.But Jordan Knight, Jonathan Knight, Joey McIntyre, Donnie Wahlberg and Danny Wood say the lucrative reunions of groups like The Police, The Spice Girls and Take That had nothing to do with their own decision to get back together."It had absolutely no bearing, whether it was The Police or the Spice Girls," McIntyre, 35, told Reuters in an interview...
Radar (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008
... broke up, Joey McIntyre and Jordan Knight have both run their course as solo heartthrobs, and Donnie Wahlberg has segued his talents into a string of acting jobs playing creepy-looking police detectives. If as boys their shtick caused more harm than good, as men it remains a source of embarrassment they're eager to sweep under the rug. It's like suddenly they're concerned about these...
