Congrats to Mommy, Daddy and big brother Griffin. The McIntyres welcomed Rhys Edward on Sunday 13 December.

http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20327252,00.html

Joey McIntyre Welcomes Second Son

By Sarah Michaud

Monday December 14, 2009 08:15 PM EST

Joey McIntyre with his wife Barrett

Roger Karnbad/Celebrity Photo

Make way for another new kid on the block: Joey McIntyre has added a second boy to his brood.

Wife Barrett delivered son Rhys Edward McIntyre at 9 p.m. Sunday in Los Angeles, the singer’s rep confirms to PEOPLE exclusively. “He and his mom are both rock stars,” McIntyre, 36, Tweeted on Monday.

Rhys weighed in at 7 lbs., 10 oz.

McIntyre and Barrett, who announced the pregnancy in July, are already parents to elder son Griffin Thomas, 2.

Will the family continue to grow? “I think we have a deal to keep going until we have a girl,” laughs McIntyre. “That’s what my wife says.”

Here We Go Again, McIntyre’s latest solo work, is now available on iTunes. On Sunday, the singer will join the New Kids on the Block for a holiday concert in their Boston hometown.

http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20327420,00.html

Unfortunately, theyre not allowing embedding or anything cool like that, so youll have to click on the link to view.

Enjoy

Didn’t get a chance to see the New Kids on the Block on tour? Now you can have Joey McIntyre, Donnie Wahlberg, Danny Wood and Jordan and Jonathan Knight in your living room when the group releases its concert DVD on Feb. 2.

From early rehearsals to inside the recording studio, NKOTB’s Coming Home DVD is “bringing you back to the very first moment of the reunion step by step until today,” Donnie Wahlberg tells PEOPLE. “It’s kind of like a yearbook – only from a 15 year high school reunion.”

The DVD includes the singers’ performance of classics like “Step by Step” – and unseen footage from the groups fan cruise to the Bahamas, where Wahlberg and Wood surprised fans in their cabins. Wahlberg has a soft spot for replaying the fan footage, saying, “the emotion from the fans, in every arena throughout the tour, was so intense,” he says. “It gives me chills every time I watch it.”

Get ready for more chills, Donnie. The reunion party will continue in 2010 when the boys hit the high seas again on a sold-cruise in May. And there will be ten golden keys hidden in the deluxe and super deluxe DVD box sets that will grant lucky fans two tickets to any future NKOTB concert.

Says Wahlberg: “We hope to find new ways to give our fans no less as we move forward.”

Now up on YouTube

Notice my vid is like the 3rd or 4th recommended one? woo!

New (sorta) LOST promo for SKY1

Show returns to ABC on February 2, 2010 and possibly back on SKY on 7 February 2010, but for me Ill be watching in HD on 3 February 2010! Wooo!!!! Only 16 episodes left, cant wait! Better not give us a blackout on the last moments ala Sopranos or its was only a dream like in St Elsewhere.

http://nkotb.com/blog/2009/12/pre-order-coming-home-dvd/

NKOTB “Coming Home” on DVD today at http://www.NKOTB.com. Get it now and own a piece of history!

After 15 years, THE NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK made a triumphant return to the world’s stage. Coming Home, the DVD, will take you along the group’s process and their many journeys as they toured the globe playing over 140 sold out arena concerts and performing to a million plus fans. “Coming Home” also captures NKOTB and their dynamic live performances as they perform songs from the group’s 2008 release, “The Block,” as well as other fan favorites from their extensive hits catalog. Highlights include the singles “Summertime,” “Single,” “You Got It (The Right Stuff),” “Step by Step, “Hangin’ Tough,” and more! Plus each DELUXE DVD comes with an un-released song “Coming Home” at the time of purchase.

“Coming Home,” the new DELUXE DVD from NKOTB comes packed with never-before-seen footage, extremely rare items and additional goodies:

- Over 90 minutes never-before-seen footage.
- 6 Live performances filmed during the group’s world tour.
- Chance to receive 1 of 5 Golden Keys. The Golden Key provides LIFETIME tickets for you and a guest to official NKOTB shows anywhere in the world for 2010 and beyond.*
- EXTREMELY LIMITED edition authentic wardrobe swatch from Full Service tour outfits (yes, its REALLY from the guy’s ACTUAL wardrobe). OWN A PIECE OF HISTORY!
- Limited edition NKOTB dog tag.
- Inside peek at NKOTB life on the road.
- Special Moments with the fans.
- Behind the scenes.
- Deluxe booklet with additional artwork.

…AND the unreleased track “Coming Home” delivered digitally at time of purchase.

PRE-ORDER YOURS TODAY @ http://www.NKOTBDVD.com**

*Certain rules and restrictions apply. Keys are inserted into packaging at random.
**Shipping early February 2010

–I would just like to say, that this is cool and all, but the whole owning a swatch of their clothing is sooo CREEPIE its unreal.

http://joeymcintyre.com/tour.php

Is now available for download on BOTH iTunes and iTunes UK!

Sounds sooooo good and the video. Oh dear lord, I need a fan on when Im watching it… Seriously at 3:06 I really wouldnt have minded to be that dudes stand-in. Really. I wouldnt.

OOOOOh this makes me so giddy. More giddy than NKOTB. Seriously. LOVELOVELOVE this. I squealed when I saw the ad during Flashforward

And this is the tracklisting:

Disc: 1
1. Ultravox Vienna
2. Gary Numan Cars
3. Soft Cell Tainted Love/Where Did Our Love Go? 12″ Mix
4. Visage Fade To Grey
5. Yazoo Don’t Go
6. Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark Enola Gay
7. Joy Division Love Will Tear Us Apart
8. Japan Quiet Life
9. Duran Duran Planet Earth
10. The Human League Being Boiled
11. Heaven 17 Penthouse And Pavement
12. Simple Minds Promised You A Miracle
13. Kim Wilde Kids In America
14. Altered Images Don’t Talk To Me About Love
15. Fiction Factory (Feels Like) Heaven
16. Art Of Noise Close (To The Edit)
17. M Pop Muzik
18. Jona Lewie You’ll Always Find Me In The Kitchen At Parties
19. Gary Numan / Tubeway Army Are ‘Friends’ Electric?
20. Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark Maid Of Orleans
Disc: 2
1. The Human League Love Action (I Believe In Love)
2. Heaven 17 Temptation
3. Spandau Ballet To Cut A Long Story Short
4. Scritti Politti Absolute
5. Blancmange Living On The Ceiling
6. Thompson Twins Love On Your Side
7. A Flock Of Seagulls Wishing (If I Had A Photograph Of You)
8. China Crisis Black Man Ray
9. Thomas Dolby Hyperactive!
10. Landscape Einstein A Go-Go
11. Simple Minds New Gold Dream (81/82/83/84)
12. B.E.F. Groove Thang
13. Lotus Eaters The First Picture Of You
14. Stephen Duffy Kiss Me
15. Go West We Close Our Eyes
16. Kajagoogoo Too Shy
17. Furniture Brilliant Mind
18. Belouis Some Imagination
19. It’s Immaterial Driving Away From Home (Jim’s Tune)
20. Art Of Noise Moments In Love
Disc: 3
1. Tears For Fears Mad World
2. Pet Shop Boys West End Girls
3. New Order Blue Monday
4. Duran Duran The Reflex
5. Bronski Beat Smalltown Boy
6. Yazoo Situation 12″ Remix
7. Erasure Sometimes
8. David Bowie Fashion Radio Edit
9. Blondie Rapture
10. Philip Oakey & Giorgio Moroder Together In Electric Dreams
11. Johnny Hates Jazz Shattered Dreams
12. Deborah Harry French Kissin’ In The USA (Edit)
13. Classix Nouveaux Is It A Dream
14. Sigue Sigue Sputnik Love Missile F1-11
15. Devo Whip It
16. John Foxx Underpass
17. Sparks Beat The Clock
18. Propaganda Duel
19. Paul Hardcastle 19
20. M/A/R/R/S Pump Up The Volume

I dont think theres a bad track on there? The only thing missing is ‘Orbital Bebop (Dancing in Heaven)’ by Q-Feel but we can forgive MoS for this slight oversight

So happy over this I really cant contain myself. First Synth Britania on the BBC and now this! weeeee

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/south_yorkshire/8359762.stm

Pulp singer given honorary degree

The singer studied at the institution when it was Sheffield Polytechnic

Former Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker has been given an honorary degree in his home city of Sheffield.

The singer picked up the doctorate at Sheffield Hallam University.

Cocker, who has also had success as a solo artist and radio producer, studied at the institution when it was Sheffield Polytechnic.

Receiving his certificate at a ceremony at City Hall, the 46-year-old said: “I’m called a doctor now. Don’t worry, I won’t open a surgery.”

He added: “But I guess if you are a songwriter maybe I could have some kind of musical surgery.

It’s a great honour to be given this, especially in my home town Jarvis Cocker

“If you had a song with a swollen chorus, or a varicose verse, or if you need a little bit of help I could try and heal your song for you.”

Cocker did an access course at the poly before winning a place at Central St Martin’s College of Art and Design in London.

The singer had his big break with Pulp at Sheffield Polytechnic in 1981 when they handed over a demo tape to John Peel, and he invited them to record a session for Radio 1.

The band went on to be nominated for a Mercury Music Prize in 1994 and the following year their single Common People reached number two in the charts.

In the past decade the singer has launched a solo career and also moved into film-making and art.

He told graduates at City Hall, who were there to collect certificates, that he had done most of his learning outside formal classrooms.

“Sometimes people call it the university of life,” he said.

“The only trouble with the university of life is the graduation when you’ve checked out, so it’s nice to actually have a graduation whilst I’m still here to enjoy it.

“It’s a great honour to be given this, especially in my home town.”

Wooo!! Now to get him on the Sheffield Walk of Fame next to Def Leopard!

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/139411/Knight-seeks-out-talented-fans/

Tuesday November 10,2009

NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK star JORDAN KNIGHT is hosting an unofficial singing contest across the U.S. to give one talented fan his or her big break.

The singer came up with the idea of holding a ‘Jordan Idol’ competition to audition skilled vocalists while he was travelling across the U.S., working on his upcoming solo album.

He began filming fans who showed up outside his recording studio in Boston, Massachusetts and posting their performances on clip-sharing website YouTube.com, prompting more and more wannabe pop stars to flock to meet him at his next stop in Nashville, Tennessee.

He tells MTV.com, “A lot of fans showed up outside the recording studio, and I just went out there with a (video camera). I said, ‘Who here could sing? Maybe you could sing background on my record?’ And a couple girls sang, and I posted it up on YouTube.

“I want to have fun with the fans. I want to hear them sing, and who knows? Maybe there is someone out there who can really put it down (perform well), and if I have the connections to help them out, it’s kind of always been a dream of mine to help somebody out.”

Knight’s next stop is in New York, where he hopes to find a true star.

He adds, “New York is one of the entertainment capitals of the world, so I’m sure there’s a lot of singers here. They don’t have to have the perfect look, the perfect voice, the perfect moves – they just have to have something special. It’s hard to come by. I’m looking for ‘it’. ‘It’, are you out there?”

Yes I went grey for this. Using a pink background for Kurt would just be inappropriate.
This looks and sounds so amazing. So want for Christmas. The New Kids may have introduced me to music but Nirvana and Kurt Cobain made me LOVE it.

Even if you have…
Even if you need…
I don’t mean to stare.
We don’t have to breed.
We can plant a house,
We can build a tree
I don’t even care.
“We could have all three,”

(PS The live album is pretty kick ass too and will be out on 180 gram vinyl on the 17th)