Backstreets Back with a “Permanent Stain” pretty Permanent!

Every blog posting about these guys have been writing this particular line and I am not gonna hold back coz nothing else suits better… “BACKSTREET’S BACK ALRIGHT!!!” Ahh… now I can work peacefully!

The guys have been working their ass off creating a follow-up to their last album “This Is Us”, which came out back in 2009 and this time with the 5th original member ’Kevin Richardson’ back in the group. The group for the first time performed live their new upcoming single “Permanent Stain” on Good Morning America and the song is AMAZING! The song has got the perfect music, the perfect lyrics and of course… the perfect voices singing the song! Backstreet has shown how tough they can make the so called “boy band war” when actually there is no real competition for these guys. I my opinion, not just the other boy bands, but also all the other artists should start worrying now that boys have geared up! The group released a lyrics video on YouTube recently for the same song. Watch it right here…

How did you like the single??? The single would be out for free download for the fans who purchase the tickets to the “In a World Like This Tour” starting 20th May. The 8th studio album of the boys is titled “In A World Like This” and would be coming out on the 30th of July worldwide. I can’t wait to listen to the album and review it!

Dragon Ball Z – “Battle of Gods” Movie!!!

Ohh yes!!! The legendary anime series, which gave way to the present day hot-shot animes like Naruto, Bleach and many others, the God of all animes is coming back with a new movie “Dragon Ball Z – Battle of Gods” and for first time ever, a Japanese movie is gonna hit IMAX!!! Yep… you read that right… “IMAX”! Sadly, there is no confirmation as to if it would be the same case worldwide. Lets just keep our fingers crossed.

This is the first Dragon Ball movie in 15 years to have theatrical release. Well.. there have been a couple of stuffs that have come out in the meanwhile. For instance a special “Episode of Bardock” maybe another “Episode of Brolly”. Not sure about the latter one though. And there has been another movie with the brother of Vegeta. Even though it was not all that great (Heck… I just need something related to Dragon Ball and it would be awesome for me). And then there was a cross manga with ‘One Piece’ (I am pretending as if the live action thing never happened).

Now a bit about “Battle of Gods”. The movie is set after the Buu Saga. It is also refered to as “The Lost Decade”.  The movie would introduce two new characters ‘Whis’ and ‘Bills’ as the ‘Gods of Destruction’, who take care of the balance in the Universe (we’ll have to wait and see the movie to understand what that means). They wake up from their long slumber only to realize that Frieza has been defeated by a stronger force named “Goku”. They track Goku and find him on Earth and challenge him for a battle. Despite of being warned by King Kai, Goku accepts the challenge and fights Bills and ends up getting defeated. The story carries on from there. And somehow, Vegeta already knows Bills from before. Lets leave that part to the movie. Even I am not gonna spoil my fun by trying to do research beyond what I have posted in this post.

All what we have for now is the trailer that has hit the internet. You can watch it right here…

The movie would be released in Japan on 30th of March. All we can do is wait. Any thoughts about the movie???

Christmas Gift from The Backstreet Boys!!! – New Single!!!

The Backstreet Boys are coming back with an early Christmas gift for all of their fans! The boys will be performing for a TV taping on the 4th of November at Disneyland for a Christmas Special! And the biggest news of all is that the boys are gonna release a brand new single on the 6th of November titled “It’s Christmas Time Again”. They have already released a small preview of the song via twitter and boy does  it sound amazing! I say say this almost every time I post anything related to the Backstreet Boys, but I am not exactly the best choice for a critic when it comes to reviewing a BSB material! So listen to the preview right here and decide for yourself!

So? Backstreet’s Back or what?! And a shoutout to my buddy Vinitneo for giving me  an early birthday present by telling me about this news!!! Thanks bro!

Enrique Iglesias Live Concert!!! – Review

To start with the review, I don’t think I am the right person to review a concert, since this was the first time I have been to a live concert. Heck… It had to start sometime and why not be with the Spanish Heartthrob , Enrique Iglesias.

The concert was suppose to start at around 6 pm, and it did, only difference is that the one who was actually performing there was not Enrique but a DJ, who was not at all a disappointment. He did a pretty good job of engaging the crowd for almost 2 hours. And after the long wait, came the announcement stating that the singer was, and I quote “in the building”, making the girls go mad ,resulting loud continuous chants “Enrique…Enrique”. Then the videos showing pre-recorded backstage footage of Enrique and some scenes from his single “I Like How It Feels”, which was actually an advertisement for some drink! (PG Rated!!!) Following that, the stage screen displayed in HUGE letters “ei” and the crowd went even more madder!

Then finally appeared the singer running towards the center of the stage singing “I Like How It Feels” and then things became difficult to hear for a while having the crowd cheering at the top of their voices. The band that was performing live was stupendous. The lead guitarist (sadly whose name I don’t know) was amazing. His guitar seemed even better than the recorded tracks. Then he carried on with his other hits such as “Dirty Dancer”. The beginning of some of the songs had been changed, as in the music and the beats were totally (most of the artists do this generally in their live shows), like in the case of Rhythm Divine. It was given an Arabian touch, making the crowd think “uhhhh?“, but when Enrique started singing, then people realized “Hey!!! I know this song!“

Then he went on to sing his sweet silent song “Don’t You Forget About Me (Baby)”, during which the live guitarist was totally on fire! That dude was amazing!!! Then a guy from the crowd was picked to come onto the stage and was asked by Enrique to select any song. The guy turned out be a really huge fan of Enrique, and started singing one of Enrique’s Spanish songs, the name of which I don’t know! And then Enrique started singing John Lennon’s “Stand By Me’ and ‘that guy from the crowd’  joining him and off course the entire crowed started singing along. That was a really nice moment. After that he sang a few of his other hits, followed by the following scene, which was one of the most visually wonderful parts of the concert! (The pic is a bit hazy, but you know how it would’ve been)

After that came that part, which made all the girls in the crowd say all the slang they know for one harmless lucky girl. So the story goes like this… the entire stage went dark and nothing what so ever could be seen around. The only that could be felt was the crowd shouting “once more once more” thinking that the concert was over. But then, loud cries were heard on the other side of the crowd and people started moving towards the cries. And then ‘there was light’ and there was Enrique standing on another small stage amongst the crowd. He started singing the song that everyone was waiting for to be sung “Hero”! And then “that girl” was chosen to go on stage by Enrique himself. Well… what made the girls angry was that he held her hard in his arms and was singing “the” song that each and every girl just dies for and then nightmare happened (nightmare for the remaining girls who didn’t get to go on stage), he kissed that girl. It was actually kinda fun to see the faces of the girls around at that very moment. After that he came back to the main stage, built the heat for his next which was the last song for the night saying “Thank you Bangalore… We’ve been through every nation. But no body makes me feel the way you do” and then music began and (here I was expecting him to sing “I like How It Feels”, hearing the lines he was saying, but) he started singing “Tonight (I Loving You)” and with that ended the concert!

All in all, the concert was an amazing experience for me. Even though it was my first live concert experience, I am darn sure that any person who has been to any number of concerts in his/her life would enjoy this one just as much!

Now that’s called the “Bond Fever”!!!

“Skyfall” is just round the corner and the heat just seems the be rising more than ever. Well… this is not just a ‘Coke’ advertisement plus a promo for the upcoming Bond flick, giving the opportunity to win Exclusive tickets for the movie, but it also shows how good the 007 grip is gaining on the fans. Instead of me telling you about it, watch it for yourself and let it ‘Unlock the Bond in You’!!!

Movie review coming soon after the movie hits the theatres!!! Consider this post just as an “FYI”!

¡Uno! – Green Day – Album Review¡¡¡

The ninth studio album for the band and the first out of the trilogy that is set to come out by January next year (2013) is out and is rocking charts! The album got out on the 24th of this month (Sept ’12). Already 4 singles have been released from the album, “Let Yourself Go”, “Kill the DJ”, “Nuclear Family” and “Oh Love”. The last one is the third rock song in the history to have debuted at #1 spot on the Billboard charts after Linkin Parks ” The Catalyst” and Foo Fighters’ “Rope”.

The tracklist of the album:

1. “Nuclear Family”
2. “Stay the Night”
3. “Carpe Diem”
4. “Let Yourself Go”
5. “Kill the DJ”
6. “Fell for You”
7. “Loss of Control”
8. “Troublemaker”
9. “Angel Blue”
10. “Sweet 16″
11. “Rusty James”
12. “Oh Love”

The album on a whole is good, but there’s nothing extra ordinary about it. It’s just another rock album with decent songs, but has 3-4 amazing songs, making the album better than the other average rock albums that have come out. The songs that stand out have already been released as singles and have been placed pretty smartly in the album. The first song “Nuclear Family”, the one at the center ”Kill the DJ” and the one at the end “Oh Love”. There’s another song that stands out according me, which again was released as a single, named “Let Yourself Go”. The official video of the song on YouTube is a video of their live performance, which is pretty awesome.

There are other songs also which are decent enough, but like I said, nothing extra ordinary about them. Songs like “Stay the Night”, “Fell for You”, “Troublemaker” and “Carpe Diem” are good, but they still miss that special touch to make them stand out. The songs that I didn’t mention like “Sweet 16″,  ”Loss of Control”, “Angel Blue” and “Rusty James”, well according to me, they are the songs that get overshadowed and need not be given much attention. Well my personal favorites from the album are “Kill the DJ”, “Let Yourself Go” and “Oh Love”, that I just can’t get enough of. They are just too good.

Kill the DJ

Oh Love

This is just the first one out of the trilogy. There are two more in line, namely “¡Dos!” and “¡Tré!”, that would be coming out in November and January respectively. On the whole, I will give “¡Uno!” a plain 3.5 stars! I just hope the remaining two do better than this.

What are your thoughts about the album???

Weather Report: Its Gonna Rain BOYBANDS Again!!!

Okay!!! this is my first post in almost 2 months now… Never thought that this would ever happen!!! I almost forgot the password for my account on WordPress!  That’s a sin! Still… I’ll forgive myself this last time!

So… it kinda has already started to drizzle Boybands, with “One Direction”, “The Wanted”, “Big Time Rush” ruling the charts everywhere and filling up arenas with girls screaming at the top of their voices!!! Ironically the music that is playing right now from my playlist is “Chasing the Sun” by “The Wanted”. Regular readers of this blog might be aware that I have been a hardcore Backstreet fan, still not a fan of every other boyband that comes and goes. Well… it kinda appears that, two boybands, namely “Backstreet Boys” and “New Kids on the Block”, uniting forces to form “NKOTBSB”, reminded music industry managers across “ohhh yeah… the boyband thing” and then they started working towards building one of their own.

Other than these new emerging ones, there are other boybands, who have been around since a long time or are re-uniting after a long time. The ones that are re-uniting are “NKOTB” and “Blue”, and the one that has been around for years now is “Backstreet Boys”, which has released 7 studio albums in these years, and now that their fifth member Kevin Richardson has joined the group back, they are recording their 8th album which has been hinted to come out early next year (2013).

There was another boyband that had formed not that long ago, causing girls going wild and crying to get a glimpse of them, a band of brothers, “The Jonas Brothers”. But then again, like they say, somethings never change. Like many other bands that have come and gone in the past, with the rise of fame, the Jonas Brothers considered following their own interest more important than the band’s interest. Something similar happened with a hot among fans boyband in the past, which used to compete with the Backstreet Boys neck to neck, *Nsync.

Not to worry though, we still have enough boybands that would be active and perhaps a few more  join the competition soon. Boybands are pretty difficult to form, to maintain, to produce and to manage, but once you hit the right chords with the correct fan base, you can assure a pretty good career at least for a decade in the future and maybe more if you know how to deliver the change that the fans need. Coz time has proven that boybands do have heavy load of loyal, real serious fanbase, ready to do anything to see their favorite band perform live and make new music.

Out of the new bandwagon, if I had to select one, it would be One Direction. And then there always have been my all time favorite the Backstreet Boys, who are better than ever right now. So, what do you feel about the boybands striking back? Love it? Hate it? Doesn’t really matter?