The Backstreet Boys have tacked more dates onto their spring THIS IS US 2010 Tour behind the group's most recent Top 10 album, "This Is Us."
The road trip gets started with a one-off, eight-song performance April 11th in Napa, CA, followed by a month-long break before hitting the tour trail at full steam June 1st in Orlando. So far, the outing touches down in 18 cities nationwide before concluding with a two-night stand June 27-28 in San Francisco.
"This Is Us," the boy band's seventh studio set and follow-up to 2007's "Unbreakable," surfaced in October 2009 on Jive Records, and is the group's second album since the departure of original member Kevin Richardson. The 11-track effort, which peaked at No. 9 on The Billboard 200, features new material that Nick Carter, Howie Dorough, Brian Littrell and AJ McLean collaborated on alongside songwriters and producers like T-Pain, RedOne and Claude Kelly.
"With this album, we feel like we kind of went back to what people really know of the Backstreet Boys, the sound of the pop/R&B with a little Euro-dance influence," Dorough explained in an interview. "We felt this is what the Backstreet Boys are really known for."
Last month, the band announced a Backstreet Boys cruise, slated to leave South Florida December 9, 2010 and return to port December 13th after visiting Key West and Cozumel. The trip is currently sold out, according to the band's website.
The Backstreet Boys will be at the Waterfront Theatre at the American Airlines Arena in Miami, Florida on Saturday May 29, 2010.
