Results tagged “newedition”

• You knew whales were big, but have you ever seen a tongue like this? [WBZ]
• Coast Guard Beach in Eastham is a top 10 beach according to some list. Except when it's full of whale tongues. [WBZ]
• A New Edition songwriter is a suspect in the recent murder in a Harvard dorm. [WCVB]

Have you played a show in Boston over within the last 18 months? Have you ever crashed on a Boston couch? Do you know someone who did? If so, check out the Boston Music Award nominations. You or they just might be nominated. Listen, we actually enjoy the fact that local musicians are honored once a year through the BMAs. Sure, it's always dominated by the usual suspects (Aerosmith, Dropkick Murphys, Dresden Dolls and, most...

Boston native Bobby Brown is known for many things. New Edition. A rather successful solo career. A tumultuous marriage with songbird Whitney Houston. A reality show in which Brown and Houston discussed highly inappropriate subjects on national television. Not paying child support. These days, Brown is probably best known for the child support issue. Every time he sets foot in Massachusetts to see his children from a previous relationship, he winds up in the cooler...

Even as the stores sport back to school sales (which depress us, even now), summer lingers on your friends the -ists. This week's collection of links provides some of the best, worst, and oddest bits of summer fun. So, bring your laptop up onto the roof, make yourself an umbrella drink or ten, and enjoy this week's choice posts from across the Gothamist network. Torontoist (where it's 75 degrees F as of this writing)...

New Edition and New Kids on the Block arrived on the scene about the same time as MTV, or after the music video station had already become engrained in pop culture. Other Boston bands had been around a lot longer than the music television station. Aerosmith found new success in a younger market when they released Get A Grip. It surged in radio play and with the wild popularity of the music videos. Crazy, Amazing, and Cryin, three videos made from singles off that album, starred Alicia Silverstone (before she was Clueless). They may have been the first set of videos that we remember being overplayed on MTV. But we haven't seen them for a while, until today. We'll wrap up this homage to twenty-five years of MTV by dropping Aerosmith's Amazing below. Be on the look out for the CD caddy used and when the screen flashes "cyberspace entered," young geeks at home wishing their VR set up was that, um, amazing. If you're in the mood for some ass-kicking Alicia watch Cryin. For hot schoolgirl Silverstone check out Crazy.

Today we continue on our video theme for the week, bringing videos out of the YouTube vault as our way of saying happy birthday to the new quarter-centenarian on the block, MTV. Yesterday was New Kids, today is New Edition. Choosing between a solo Bobby Brown and the entire Boston-bred crew of New Edition was actually more difficult than we thought. Bobby's got a certain presence we find hard to turn away from – since...

Ok, we’ll stop. Bobby Brown was pulled over in Webster, Mass., yesterday and taken downtown by the local PD on warrants outstanding for 14-year-old traffic violations. If you’re wondering where Webster is, you’ll have to look outside of 495, near the border with Conn., just a bit southeast of Southbridge. When news broke of the incident, he was referred to as Mr. Whitney Houston just as often as Bobby Brown in the media. Bostonist isn’t sure if this is a sign of Massachusetts' liberal progressives or just a crazy crack-addict wife eclipsing the star of another 80’s celebrity. The police only held him up for about an hour and released him on $40 bond (seriously, only four Hamiltons?). We often forget that the New Edition star is also a native of Roxbury, so we thought it right to show him some love, especially since his Webster mugshot seems to be his best to date. Wonder if they turned on the celebreality lights for him in the station.

Bostonist has always been honest about its reality-TV obsession, but when we heard about the newest one this week, we were a bit skeptical. One of the original boy bands of the 1980s, New Edition, hailed from Boston and included Roxbury boy Bobby Brown. In the days before he was arrested for drugs, not paying child support, and even a Disney World brawl, Brown was pretty famous in Maurice Starr's New Edition and then branched out with a solo career, which included "My Prerogative" (Bostonist had the cassette tape. Jealous?). So Brown was hot for a while and then got cold like most teen stars do. He was back in the spotlight once he married pop queen Whitney Houston in 1992 and the two of them have been in and out of court and tabloids ever since.