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New Kids On The Block — five now fully-grown men who forever defined what the modern boy band would look and sound like — are back together for the very first time in nearly a decade and a half, and currently hard at work on their first new album since 1994. That still untitled album should be released sometime this summer, preceded by the New Kids' first new single since the '90s, and followed in the fall by an already hotly anticipated international concert tour.

Now that the five Kids are standing together and planning to hit the road with a new show, simply reviving the old hits isn't enough. "No, I want this to be redemption — but not for us," Donnie Wahlberg explains. "I want it to be redemption for the fans. I want them to feel entertained, to feel treated to something special. And I want them to be so satisfied by what they get that they'll realize they weren't crazy all those years ago — that they put their heart into the right place back then and that it was worth the wait to come back again."

Make no mistake; the New Kids intend to play all the familiar hits — along with some brand new ones too. "We have something like ten top ten hits," Wahlberg says, "which is amazing. So if we do those and five new songs, we'll have a hell of a show. We will give the people what they want to hear."