And The Seventh Sign of the Coming Apocalypse is...

... last month's announcement that New Kids on the Block have reunited, are recording again and are heading out on tour.

Back in the late '80s, New Kids on the Block (or NKOTB, presumably pronounced Nuh-Cot-Buh) laid the blueprint for the completely prefabricated, carefully manufactured boy band. The band had all the right ingredients for making pre-teen girls go ga-ga and spend their allowances on merchandise: there was a cutie-pie (Joey) a bad-boy (Donnie), a Ringo (Danny), and a couple of innocuous sweetums (Pookie and Schmookie, or whatever their names were).

Like all megafads, they eventually vanished, and most die-fans suddenly refused to admit they ever owned an album/poster/lunchpail/official-NKOTB-orthodontic-headgear.

But for some reason -- call it retro nostalgia, call it Armageddon -- the band has reunited. And get this: their show at Toronto's Air Canada Centre in September is already sold out.

One of their new songs is called Sexify My Love. I wish I were making that up.

The band is set to perform their new single, Summertime, on the Today show this Friday. In advance of the performance, NKOTB has released their first new promotional photograph.  We don't have the rights to display it on this page, but you can find it here.

Comments

[Robyn]

Brilliant! My sister is still a die-hard NKOTB fan - she'd rather have teeth pulled than admit it, but I'll bet she tried to get tickets.