VH1's 50 Greatest Teen Idols: BSB are in the top 10! AJ McLean talks about other stars all throughout the show. It premiered 6/27 from 8-10 pm EST. I'm sure it will be on again in another day or two. Check your local listings.

AJ's Us Weekly Article: For the past 2 hours,AJ Mclean has been talking at his Malibu, California, home about the alcoholism that led him into rehab in 2001. Then, through puffs of cigarette smoke, the Backstreet Boy delves deeper. He has something he wants to get off his chest:He has screwed up. Bad. First, he blew the more than a year of sobreity he had since leaving the Sierra Tucson rehab clinic in Aug. 2001 by popping a few prescription drugs and smoking pot.
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Howie Interview with DJ Jojo:

JOJO: Special dude on the telephone, long time friend, you guys totally know him...
HOWIE D: Yo, yo, its Howie D. from the Bacskstreet Boys
JOJO: I know you guys are in the process of creating your next album, give me a little news
HOWIE D: Yeah, actually this whole last year, even though we had a couple of guys doing some independent stuff, which we're very proud of - Kevin is representing the group very well doing "Chicago" in New York
JOJO: Did you actually see Kevin do it?
HOWIE D: I did...I saw him a week and a half ago, he was unbelievable. I was so proud of him, he's really having fun in it and its great. You know we're really very happy for each other to spread their wings out a little bit. Brian is having some time with his child, AJ is out here in L.A. as well as myself, I'm doing some foundation work and acting, and Nicky, of course, doing his solo album.
JOJO: What's the plans for the album - I guess the release date may be summer, give or take?
HOWIE D: We're hoping by the end of the summer, fall, somewhere around there I think would be great. I think, realistically, we've got I think about 6 songs in the can that we have demoed already that we think are pretty good, definitely album contenders. But we just really want to experiment. We're looking out there for more music, we're writing with some great, great writers and producers. We just want to let the sky be the limits. We just want this definitely to be a slam, coming back album that people will be like 'wow, we're glad to hear them back on the map again.'
JOJO: I was hanging with AJ and he put in his stereo a track called "Back In The Day"...really knocked my socks off. Have you heard that track?
HOWIE D: We get back together on March 18th. We're going to get back and listen to everybody's songs. We've all been demoing stuff on our own in the meantime. Actually, last time we talked you told me about that track so I've actually asked AJ to bum that track off, but I think he wants to make it a big surprise for us all to hear
JOJO: I hope I'm not picking a song you guys are really going to hate, but I really like that song for whatever its worth.
HOWIE D: I'm excited about it
JOJO: Dude, I forgot to mention, you guys did the whole Christmas show for me - you guys did a killer job on that.
HOWIE D: Thank you man, I was really trying to represent, I know I probably couldn't have done it as well as you
JOJO: Christmas Day, we plugged up microphones in Jennifer Love Hewitt's house, AJ's Nick Carter's house, and Howie D's house. Howie D. did the last hour. We put you on the 10 o'clock dedication hour since you're kinda the smooth stud boy.
HOWIE D: I was trying to work it.

Excerpt from an article featuring Kevin: Picketing took place again Saturday in front of theaters before what would have been matinee performances. Backstreet Boy Kevin Richardson stood with musicians in front of "Chicago," in which he plays shady lawyer Billy Flynn, while two stars of "The Producers," Brad Oscar and Gary Beach, were at the St. James Theatre with orchestra players from their show....The rest of the article is here.

Click here to vote for the Backstreet Boys in the Rolling Stone Artist of the Years poll. Every artist of the Year from 1976-2002 is featured (the Backstreet Boys were 1999). You can join my campaign by clicking on the pic to the right. It's to get lots of people to vote for the boys.

Kevin took Billy Zane's place in the role of Billy Flynn in the Broadway musical "Chicago" starting January 20. Here's what Broadway.com had to say: Teenage girls flooded the Shubert Theatre to catch the first performance of Backstreet Boy Kevin Richardson in the Broadway smash Chicago. Richardson is playing slick lawyer Billy Flynn through March--and is clearly relishing in his New York stage debut. Broadway.com was in the crowd cheering on the likable pop star and capturing the madness at the stage door on film. Tons of pics can be found here!