New Kid Joey McIntyre taking another solo run around The Block

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Posted by John J. Moser at 06:34:44 PM on December 4, 2009

When New Kids on the Block concluded its 15-month reunion tour this summer, one member – Joey McIntyre – decided he didn’t want to stop.

So two days after the tour ended July 19, he went into the studio and put together a seven-song solo EP, “Here We Go Again,” that on Tuesday drops on iTunes.

And tomorrow, tickets go on sale for a five-date tour of the northeast – including a Jan. 15 stop at The Note in West Chester – that could lead to a longer jaunt the would include the West Coast and South, McIntyre says.

“I think New Kids was amazing, and we were just so grateful for the opportunity, and did a lot of performing, and it just inspired me,” McIntyre says in a telephone call from his Los Angeles home this week. “It gave a lot to say and so I’m saying it.”

The first single off McIntyre’s new disc, the title song, is a driving, beat-heavy electronic tune unlike anything he – or New Kids – has ever done.

Other songs on the disc are “pop, dance urban rock,” McIntyre says. “There's a thriving energy and urgency in the music that represents where I am right now. I want to get in your face and rock."

But the disc also includes songs such as “Forget About It” that more traditionally focus on McIntyre’s ballad-strong voice.

McIntyre says the time with New Kids reignited his interest in making his own music, as he did after New Kids’ original run in the 1980s and 1990s. He released his debut solo disc, “Stay The Same,” in 1998 and opened his first solo tour at that year’s Musikfest festival in Bethlehem.

He later released three more solo discs, but the last was more than three years ago, ”Talk To Me,” in 2006.

The new disc will be released independently, only on digital retailers except for 3,000 discs sold as a special edition “MAC PAC 3000” that will include the EP, personal photos and a booklet with liner notes and lyrics. McIntyre says a bigger deal may be in the works for Canada.

McIntyre explains his return to solo recoding with “The Godfather”-referencing lyrics of “Here We Go Again”: “Just when I thought I was out, they pulled me back in.”

“Just when I thought I was sort of maybe chilling out a little bit and getting away from it, I’m pulled back in,” he says, laughing. “And I think also being one of five and being a part of the team is awesome, I love it, but you also want to do things your own way. You don’t have to account for anybody else, and you want to step up and say what you want to say. And I think that was part of what propelled me into wanting to write some stuff.”

JOEY MCINTYRE, 7 p.m. Jan. 15, The Note, 142 E. Market St., West Chester; Tickets $26.50 advance, $28 day of show, On sale 10 a.m. Dec. 5; www.thenotewc.com, www.joeymcintyre.com.

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Donnie Wahlberg : He's Got It!

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November 27, 2009

(bum) - In 2008, the New Kids on the Block got a taste of success again with the release of their first album in nearly 15 years, called The Block, which has topped several music charts. Although the popular boy band has reunited and has been working on joint projects, they also have had personal projects rolling along on the side. In particular, Donnie Wahlberg has been writing songs for fun. But to indulge his fans, he’s thinking of releasing a complete solo album. He signed on with Universal Music Canada and continues to be a popular name in music. His new single I Got It is now getting frequent air play on the radio and can be heard on iTunes.

What inspired you to create your single I Got It?

I don’t know! I just like making music! I was working on a movie and I had a lot of down time, and I just decided to go to the studio making songs, and I came up with that, and that was it.

But something specific surely inspired you to create your new songs, perhaps love, friendship…

Yeah, sure! I like to be in creative environments and I Got It, you know, I was in a studio writing music, and I just started that song. I’m friends with Aubrey O’Day, and we talked about doing a song together, and it just sort of developed into the song.

My other song is called Rise N Grind. I wrote that really based on twits that I wrote on Twitter to all of my fans. They were just inspirational twits and motivational twits, and I wrote a song based on those twits, and actually, a lot of the fans really love that record even more than I Got It.

When will you release your full length album?

Probably after the New Year. I have a lot to do now, because I’ve never intended to do a full length CD or anything. It really comes from the fan support of my song that I’m actually even thinking about doing a full length CD. When Universal Canada reacted to the fans’ reaction to the song, it kind of got me thinking that I may do it, but again, it was never my intention to be a solo artist. I was just sort of having fun!

I really enjoy watching the fans sort of make Canada the central location in the world for my record. My fans don’t even have to play it in their own country, they just go online and listen to the Canadian station and request it on Canadian stations. I think it’s awesome. The US fans, fans from Brazil… they call radio stations in Ottawa, Saskatoon, and request my record.

What are you and the other New Kids on the Block members working on right now?

We had a good time touring. It was great for many reasons on many levels, and now we’re working on a few projects for next year: a DVD project, another tour and different guys are working on a solo project as well. But everything is part of what we do, I mean, anything that leaves the group or anything like that. Our solo projects are coming one in a line after the other and are sort of all working in conjunction with each other. Boring but true!

We can hear your song Good Vibrations in a lot of popular movies such as Blades of Glory and Analyze This. Which one of your new songs would you love hearing in which movie?

Well, Good Vibrations is on my brother Mark’s record [actor Mark Wahlberg who was the leader of hip-hop group Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch], but I wrote the record and produced it, and I love hearing that record in movies because, you know, I wrote it! It’s an incredible accomplishment for me.

I really don’t know. I mean, as long as it’s in a good context or in a funny context, I don’t care. I don’t make music to play in movies; I just do it because I love it, and if it’s up in a movie, it’s great. I would like hearing one of my songs maybe… hmm… in the movie Do The Right Thing [directed by Spike Lee].

You’ve played in hot movies such as The Sixth Sense, and several films of the series Saw and Righteous Kill. Do you feel that being Mark Wahlberg’s brother somehow helped you have a movie career?

No, I don’t think it helped me at all. He never helped me get a part; I’ve never asked him for help. I’ve never really been given a job. I had to earn every job I’ve got by auditioning, auditioning, auditioning. Mark didn’t help me get the role in The Sixth Sense, and I’m the one who had to lose 40 pounds to do the part. That’s my hard work. I think, on the contrary, a lot of people didn’t think of me as an actor and didn’t take me seriously at first, and as a musician, a lot of people didn’t take Mark seriously at first.

What do you like the most about having a career in the music industry?

Hmm… I’d just say, you know, just meeting people, having fun with fans, performing for them, meeting them and seeing how happy people get. I love making people smile. I worked in a really dark household with nine kids, and a lot of them going into prison and stuff. I was sort of the one trying to make everyone laugh in the house and I still do that now.

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McIntyre Preps For Solo Tour

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McIntyre Preps For Solo Tour

Posted on Tuesday December 1, 2009 at 03:01 PM Add |

Joey McIntyre hits the road in January playing venues a bit smaller than his previous outing as a member of New Kids On The Block.

But that’s OK with McIntyre. The singer/songwriter has forged his own career playing intimate venues that allow him and his fans to share a more personal concert experience.

McIntyre also has a new EP coming out. Titled Here We Go Again, the disc lands in stores Dec. 8, giving fans plenty of time to familiarize themselves with the new music before hearing it performed live next month.

And it’s a short tour. Beginning Jan. 14 in NKOTB’s hometown of Boston at Paradise Rock Club and ending Jan. 20 in Chicago at Lincoln Hall, McIntyre also plays West Chester, Penn., at The Note Jan. 15; New York at the Highline Ballroom Jan. 16 and Toronto at The Mod Club Theatre Jan. 18.

McIntyre’s upcoming EP has been described as “mix of rock and hip-hop infused dance tracks” that is different from anything he’s ever done.

“It’s pop, dance urban rock,” McIntyre said. “There’s a thriving energy and urgency in the music that represents where I am right now. I want to get in your face and rock.”

McIntyre also has a special offer available only on iTunes and other music download stores. Called Mac Pac 3000, the collection features the new EP, personal photos and a booklet with liner notes and lyrics. The plan is to issue only 3,000 copies of Mac Pac 3000, making the download a limited-edition collector’s item.

The Toronto show goes on sale Dec. 4 while all U.S. dates go up Dec. 5. For more information, please click here for JoeyMcIntyre.com.

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