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September 28, 2001 - The Backstreet Boys performed Tuesday night to a crowd of 13,000 screaming fans and the Calgary Sun's Mike Bell got an earful. In his review, Bell says, "The evening was a professional, polished and well-paced love-in akin to a Las Vegas-lite stage show." Read his full review of the show here.

September 26, 2001 - The Sun reports Backstreet Boy AJ McLean is preferring rehab to life outside of drug rehab saying, "In there it's quiet and peaceful. Then you come back out to violence, destruction and stupidity."

September 23, 2001 - AJ McLean of the Backstreet Boys talked to Chad of XL 106.7 FM in Orlando and opened up about what exactly happened that got him to go into rehab and revealed that he did dabble in drug use and forceful words by Kevin Richardson calling him "A worthless piece of crap" that served as a wakeup call. For a complete transcript of AJ's eye opening chat, click here.

September 23, 2001 - Goto.com has its August list of the most popular Backstreet Boys and spelling variations of the guys. Despite some thinking AJ's rehab may have made him most popular he's still far behind Nick Carter in searches as 'Nick Carter' was searched 30,317 times compared to 12,490 for 'AJ McLean'. Far behind were Brian Littrell at 4,682, Kevin Richardson at 3,201, and Howie Dorough at 1,808. For the complete list, read here.

September 22, 2001 - The Backstreet Boys are amongst the artists scheduled to perform at the Radio Music Awards, which will be broadcast from Las Vegas Oct. 26 on ABC.

September 22, 2001 - The pop community is well represented in the What's Going On remake that benefits AIDS research and relief to victims of the September 11 terrorist attacks. Included on the song are NSYNC, Christina Aguilera, Britney Spears, the Backstreet Boys, Jennifer Lopez, and several others. Read on for the lyrics.

September 19, 2001 - The Backstreet Boys' Kevin Richardson added to his controversial comments regarding the horrific terrorist acts against the United States last week when he earlier spoke of arrogance in the United States and how war would help the economy. Read more.

September 18, 2001 - Thanks Kipper11. Britney Spears was interviewed in the October issue of M Magazine where she revealed how she reacted when she met the Backstreet Boys in New York a few years ago. Read more.

September 18, 2001 - Michael Jackson is planning to get top artists together to record a new song that will raise $50 million for the survivors of the terrorist attacks in the United States last Tuesday. Destiny's Child and the Backstreet Boys’ Nick Carter, Britney Spears, NSYNC’s Justin Timberlake and Mya are already slated to Jacko on the track. Read more.

September 17, 2001 - The Backstreet Boys were interviewed by Muchmusic last week ahead of their concert dates in Toronto. In the short clip, Nick Carter claims he'd rather be in Canada right now because they are neutral and Kevin Richardson says of the United States, "We are a little bit of an arrogant nation" and asked "What has our government done to provoke or evoke this action?" Check out the full interview here.

September 14, 2001 - The Backstreet Boys were one of the few acts to continue their concert schedule following the terrorist attacks against the United States on Tuesday with the first of three scheduled performances at the Air Canada Centre. While some wondered if the group should perform, BSB decided to go on while one U.S. dollar from each ticket sold to all three Toronto shows would go to the American Red Cross' U.S.A. Appeal Relief Fund. Read more.

September 12, 2001 - The Star reports the Carter family and Aaron Carter's road manager got into a nasty argument because Aaron's father Bob and the manager wanted Aaron to stay up signing autographs for fans. Read more.

September 11, 2001 - The Backstreet Boys' Howie Dorough was in Boston on Sunday spending time at the Boston Children's Hospital to talk to patients about Lupus. Read more.

September 10, 2001 - The Enquirer reports A.J. McLean's mother has fired several backup musicians and crew members who have taken drugs with the Backstreet Boy. Read more.

September 7, 2001 -  A jam packed lineup of top pop stars, including Backstreet Boys, will collaborate for a remake of Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On," to raise funds for AIDS victims in Africa. Read more.

September 7, 2001 - The Backstreet Boys opened the VMA awards presenting the Best Hip Hop Video to Outkast. AJ said before giving the award, "First and foremost i want to thank MTV, thank everybody for all the support during my time of need. I really appreciate it. Today is 64 days sober. I'm proud of myself, thank you. I'm going to keep on doing it."

September 7, 2001 - Jamie Foxx opened his Video Music Award monologue joking about AJ causing the crowd to groan. Foxx cracked, " Like I said, everybody switchin' up their names... A.J. From Backstreet Boys is going by his new rap name. Long Island ice-t!" After they gave the award, Foxx tried to offer AJ a bottle laster insisting "it's just apple cider."

September 7, 2001 - WBLI FM has an interview with Nick Carter archived on their website. To hear the interview, register and listen here.

September 7, 2001 - WireImage.com has photos of several musicians who showed up for P. Diddy's party in New York, including the Backstreet Boys. Check them out here.

September 7, 2001 - WireImage.com has several photos of the Backstreet Boys at the Video Music Awards last night, amongst several music stars. Check out the photos here.

September 5, 2001 - Despite some wishing the Backstreet Boys should change their name to Backstreet Men because of their ages. Read more.

September 5, 2001 - Worldpop reports Nick Carter got a tattoo of the word 'Chaos' on his back, and he reportedly his getting Mr Hyper Man tattooed on his right arm and Messy Marvin on his left ankle soon.

September 5, 2001 - The Atlanta Journal Constitution reports Brian Littrell joined the Commodores onstage during their Saturday performance at Chastain Park. Read more.

September 3, 2001 - In an abstracts.net poll asking if you think AJ has drug problems, 43.1% said yes, 42.9% said they were unsure, and 14% said they were unsure.  There were 406 total votes cast.

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