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Nick
and Aaron Preview Summer Concert Series
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Source: CBS
News
Teen pop star Aaron Carter has joined forces with his Backstreet Boy
big brother Nick for three upcoming concerts. Starting this weekend,
the two will perform together, singing some of the many songs
they've collaborated on over the years.
They gave a preview of the concert on The Early Show Plaza Friday,
performing a duet they recorded on Aaron's current "Oh
Aaron" CD.
The three concerts are scheduled for the following dates:
June 1 - Boston's
KIIS 108 Great Woods Radio show
June 2 - Z100 "Zootopia" at New York's Giant
Stadium;
June 15 - KISS "Wango Tango" show at the Pasadena
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Aaron Carter, who is 14, is now pomoting his "Oh Aaron"
CD. He recently completed a 20-city tour in support of that
platinum-selling album. His brother Nick ,22, collaborated with him
on the project. Aaron goes into the studio to begin work on his
third album later this summer; he expects it out in the fall.
Watch their performance here.
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Aaron
and Nick in Concert
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Source: CBS
News
(CBS) This summer The Early Show Plaza is coming alive with some
great concerts. Friday, May 31, brothers Aaron and Nick Carter
performed a duet they recorded on Aaron's current "Oh
Aaron" CD called "Not Too Young, Not Too Old," live
outside on The Early Show plaza.
Teen pop star Aaron Carter has joined forces with his Backstreet Boy
big brother Nick in three upcoming concert events. Starting this
weekend, the brothers will perform together, singing some of the
many songs they've collaborated on over the years.
June 1 - Boston's
KIIS 108 Great Woods Radio show
June 2 - Z100 "Zootopia" at New York's Giant
Stadium;
June 15 - KISS "Wango Tango" show at the Pasadena
Rose Bowl. |
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Aaron, who is 14, is currently out promoting his CD "Oh
Aaron." He recently completed a 20-city tour in support of that
platinum selling album. His brother Nick collaborated with him on
the project. Aaron goes into the studio to begin work on his third
album later this summer.
Aaron says he and Nick love working together and plan to continue to
do so in the future.
"He's my little brother, you know, and I like to be involved in
anything he does, whether it's big or small," says Nick on The
Early Show.
Aaron says he was only 3 or 4 when his older brother hut it big in
the Back Street Boys so "I know the Backstreet Boys better than
anyone."
"He's a punk," adds Nick.
Nick, 22, is just releasing his solo album but says he will continue
with BSB. "They support me and I support them."
Nick is the youngest member of the pop sensation the Backstreet
Boys. Nick, alongside Brian Littrell, AJ McClean, Kevin Richardson
and Howie Dorough has helped pave the path for pop bands
today.
Their first record release, "Backstreet's Back" turned
them into almost overnight sensations in both Europe and the
U.S.
The release of "Millennium" pushed the band even higher on
the charts entering the Billboard Top 200 at number one and selling
over 1.1 million albums in its first week alone.
The album reached five time platinum sales in the U.S.
According to Nick, the Backstreet Boys aren't done yet. Hits from
their latest release "Black and Blue" continue to work
their way up the charts throughout the world.
In February of this year, Nick and Aaron performed together for the
first time during a pay-per-view Valentine's Special called
"Aaron Carter's Valentine's Party."
Aaron received his big break at a 1997 Backstreet Boys concert in
Berlin, Germany. He opened for his brother's group and reportedly
stole the show.
Aaron says he's always been interested in music, but probably
wouldn't have pursued it seriously if his brother Nick hadn't been
in the business. In fact, he says Nick was the first person to
actually ask him if perhaps he too wanted to sing.
Aaron's musical caeer actually began when he was seven, when he
landed the position of lead singer in a band called Dead End. Since
then he set the world record for the most hit songs recorded by a
person his age in music history.
Aaron is now working on a new album, which he says will be out in
the fall and is currently in talks to make his movie debut in a
tentatively titled film called "Dudes."
Aside from his brother Nick, Aaron has a twin sister named Angel and
sisters Bobbie Jean and Leslie.
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Boy,
You're Pretty
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Source: YM Magazine
From the July 2002 issue.
Most guys are clueless about makeup. (My brother once asked me if
mascara makes my eyelids heavy.) But foundation and blush can be a
celebrity-boy’s best friend. And we’re not talking Marilyn
Manson face paint. “Basically, I put on as much makeup on NSYNC as
I can without them getting their a**es kicked,” says makeup artist
Scott McMahon, who also works with the Backstreet Boys and Dave
Navarro. “Brian from BSB can’t stand wearing makeup, but stage
lights make you look sickly without it. He used to excuse himself
right before he went on camera and just wipe everything off.
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Krystal or Pollyanna Contest at VTeens
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Source: Vteens.org
Here at VTeens we want all of our members to have ALL-STAR treatment
at this year’s V-Fair. Even if you are miles away, you can taste
the action. We are searching for five of Krystal’s BIGGEST fans
and five of Pollyanna’s BIGGEST fans! How do you prove your
dedication? Here’s how:
1. Think of an interesting question you would like to ask either
Miss KRYStAL Harris or Pollyanna Dorough. The more unique, the
better.
2. Chose either KRYStAL or Pollyanna.
3. Submit your question to Lisa at VTeens_Official_Updates-owner@yahoogroups.com
with “Question for K” or “Question for P” in the subject
line.
4. Within the email please include your:
Full Name:
Email Address:
Location:
VTeens Username:
Additional Rules: All entries MUST be received by NOONTIME (EST),
Friday, May 31st. You MUST be a member of VTEENS.ORG and the
Official VTeens Newsletter to participate in the contest. (If you
are NOT a member of VTeens, please visit http://www.vteens.org
and register as a member. If you are NOT a member of the Official
Newsletter please email Lisa at: VTeens_Official_Updates-owner@yahoogroups.com
with “subby” in the subject line.) You may submit a question to
both Krystal and Pollyanna. Do not hesitate to submit MORE than one
question. While you may submit several questions to both K and P,
you will only be selected as a winner…ONE TIME. Winners will be
announced via the newsletter on Friday, May 31st. What does the
winner receive? The ten winner’s questions, names, and locations
will be complied into interview format. Then…one June 2nd…your
question will be asked during backstage interviews with both Krystal
and Pollyanna. After the event, the transcribed interviews will
appear at VTeens.Org…how awesome would it be to see your name
included in an exclusive interview from the V-Fair? Best of luck to
everyone!
If you have any questions concerning the contest please do not
hesitate to email Lisa…that’s me!
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AJ
McLean denies the Backstreet Boys are breaking up
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Source: Universal
One
McLean denies the Backstreet Boys are breaking up.
He admits Nick Carter's ambition to record a solo CD; he assures
that the group will stay united in spite of it.
Related article
Source: Entertainment Mag, page 11
LOS ANGELES. After the rumors that suggested several members of the
Backstreet Boys may be leaving the group, A.J. McLean affirmed that
everything is false. "there is no truth in those rumors",
said McLean to UNIVERSAL One, "no member of the Backstreet Boys
is leaving, we will be staying together for years to come.
"the Backstreet Boys will not disappear".
The rumor arose after Nick Carter, member of the band, expressed his
desire to record a solo album.
In fact, Nick is about to to finish that material and to begin a
solo tour next to his brother Aaron.
Nick will make his solo CD and then come back to us. All of us
within the group have the freedom to be in other projects,it is no
problem", he commented.
"This time it's about Nick; the next time it could be another
one of us. the important thing is that there is support and
comradeship between all of us."
McLean added that the work that Nick does outside the group does not
affect the band in any way.
"On the contrary", he indicated, "I believe that the
work of the group is enriched by this".
At this moment, they are on vacation and gathering energies to enter
the recording studios in a few weeks.
"the songs of the new CD are ready", he expressed,
"We have already begun with the pre-production, and the truth I
can say to you is that the new material will be even better that our
past material .
"It is an evolution that we really needed and I believe that
that our fans are going to appreciate it very much."
He indicated that the new record material of the group probably will
be released at the end of this year.
"There are many things to analyze, but if everything goes well,
the record will be ready by those dates", he said, " we
are already anxious to return to the studio", he
admitted.
We chatted with A.J. in the tribute that MTV offered the group
Aerosmith. There, the member of Backstreet Boys showed up hand in
hand with his fiancèe SARAH Martin, with whom he was very
affectionate.
Are there wedding plans soon?
", Yes of course ", he said, "very we are very
much in love and we are already considering the possibilty of
getting married".
When?
"Perhaps next year, I assure you", he indicated,
"I am very I happy with the relationship and for that reason I
do not doubt in telling you that yes,I want to get
married".
He added that if he takes that step in his life he does not fear
that his career in the group may end.
"Everything can be combined", he commented, "the
important thing is that I am in a group where there is unconditional
support".
A.J. was more than happy to participate in the tribute to Aerosmith,
since he considers the group as his idols.
" like many people,I grew up with their music", he
said.
"They are and they will continue to be a living legend. It
means a lot to me that they are being offered a tribute like this
one, because sincerely, they deserve it ".
The member of the Backstreet Boys sends a message to the Mexican
fans of BSB: "they must not worry, the group it will stay
together", he said.
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Musicians
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Source: Las
Vegas Sun
WASHINGTON -- Veteran musician David Crosby has been an anti-nuclear
activist dating to the nuclear energy industry's early days in the
1960s. So he has watched with interest as the government developed
its proposal to bury waste from nuclear plants in the Nevada desert.
Now Crosby is one of a number of rock 'n' roll artists throwing
their star power behind an effort to block the Yucca Mountain
project.
Crosby has joined a handful of musicians such as Bonnie Raitt and
Peter Garrett of Midnight Oil, plus younger performers such as Ani
DiFranco, who are making last-minute efforts to help derail the plan
to haul nuclear waste to the Yucca site 90 miles northwest of Las
Vegas for permanent disposal.
"I don't want to say I told you so, but all the activists at
the time said, 'Don't build these plants -- you don't have any place
to put the waste,' " Crosby said in a recent telephone
interview from his California home, where he had just pulled fresh
accident statistics off his fax machine, sent from the National
Transportation Safety Board.
"Now they want to move it. Statistically, there isn't a chance
in hell they can move this stuff without having a wreck."
Crosby is battling Yucca on the front where Nevada officials need
the most urgent help: in Congress, where lawmakers are poised to
give the project its final seal of approval.
The House has approved Yucca overwhelmingly; the Senate is likely to
vote in July.
Crosby said he had spoken to a number of senators already, some he
called friends, urging them to oppose Yucca. The 60-year-old
singer-songwriter, who has been a member of the Byrds and Crosby,
Stills and Nash, has several more calls to make, he said. Crosby
said he has spoken to Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., but wouldn't name
others or recount conversations.
Crosby said he was arguing a simple point to lawmakers: that the
Yucca plan is dangerous because so much waste -- 77,000 tons --
would have to be shipped cross-country to Nevada from 131 temporary
nuclear waste sites, many of them nuclear power plants. That invites
the risk of accidents and terrorist attacks, he said.
"This is a suicidal move," the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Famer
said, adding, "Our rail lines are in terrible shape, man."
Nuclear industry experts, plus government officials from a number of
agencies including the Federal Railroad Administration and the
Department of Transportation, say waste transportation is safe. And
officials at the Energy Department, which manages the project, say
the Yucca site is scientifically suitable for isolating waste for
thousands of years.
Nuclear power officials agree and have prodded Congress to give the
project a green light. They argue that the Yucca plan is key to the
industry's future.
A lobbying war on both sides of the Yucca issue has developed as
pro- and anti-Yucca forces muster in an effort to influence the
Senate vote. Nevada officials and environmentalists say they have
been outnumbered -- and outspent -- by the nuclear industry.
But a few musicians can help a little in their bid to even the
score, activists say.
"This is artists who believe that our children, and our
children's children, and our children's children's children, deserve
a nuclear-free future," said Tom Campbell of the
California-based Guacamole Fund, a nonprofit that organizes benefits
for environmental causes. Campbell has worked with artists like
Crosby, Raitt and Jackson Browne in recent years on anti-nuclear
benefits.
"A lot of us are worn out having to constantly struggle with
this thing," Campbell said of the 20-year-old Yucca plan.
Among the most vocal anti-Yucca rockers now on tour is Peter
Garrett, frontman for the Australian band Midnight Oil, who has
urged fans to call their senators and wants to meet personally with
several senators, activists said. The band is hanging a banner at
shows that reads, "Atomic trains and trucks through your state?
Stop the Yucca Mountain dump. Urgent: calls needed to your U.S.
senator."
Garrett, the 7-foot, shaven-headed leader of the group, is also a
lawyer and an outspoken critic of a proposed national nuclear waste
dump in Australia. He spoke to reporters before a recent show in
Portland, Ore., calling the Yucca plan a "harebrained recipe
for hell."
Raitt, another longtime environmental activist, said Yucca was
"a disaster waiting to happen" during an Earth Day rally
in Washington last month aimed at lawmakers. She urged people to
call their senators.
"Yucca is in a very active earthquake zone that leaks water
like a sieve," Raitt said. "It sits atop a drinking water
supply that would become contaminated with radioactivity if waste is
buried there."
Raitt, Crosby, Browne and the Indigo Girls were among the headliners
on the Honor the Earth tour in 2000, designed to raise awareness of
Native American issues, including the Western Shoshone's opposition
to Yucca Mountain. The tour played 14 dates, including a few on
proposed nuclear waste transportation routes.
"Bush and his energy buddies in the industry and Congress have
Yucca on the fast track," the Indigo Girls tell fans on their
website. The veteran duo, Emily Saliers and Amy Ray, implore fans to
contact their senators, and include a sample letter. "Tell your
friends, tell everyone you know, write a letter or call your Senator
and tell them to stop this dump."
Rocker Ani DiFranco has also taken an interest in Yucca, allowing
environmental activists to work anti-Yucca information tables at her
shows. Activist Susan Alzner of the Citizens Awareness Network, an
environmental group in the Northeast, passed out anti-Yucca
postcards for fans to sign and send to their senators during
DiFranco shows in April in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and Providence, R.I.
"Ani feels that people in general have become disconnected from
the governmental process and she was excited that people have been
engaged on this issue with their local governments and members of
Congress," Alzner said.
Even Backstreet Boy Kevin Richardson, who runs an environmental
group called Just Within Reach, is reportedly opposed to Yucca. When
the topic came up during an episode of ABC's "Politically
Incorrect with Bill Maher" last month, Richardson argued that
waste should be left for now in temporary storage at nuclear power
plants.
"You don't think there's any risk transporting nuclear waste on
the road?" Richardson asked Maher, according to a show
transcript.
Host Maher, who said he supports Yucca, replied, "I do think
there's a risk. I think there's a risk to living, but we're talking
about the best solution. Do you think there's less of a risk keeping
it in 131 sites around the country above ground?"
Richardson: "It's above ground where they can keep an eye on
it. If they put it below ground, it's out of sight, out of mind.
What if we have an earthquake?"
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