VEGAS MUSIC NEWS: Boys are Back(street), Boyz II Men II Cosmo
Posted on: February 12, 2025, 08:56h.
Last updated on: February 25, 2025, 01:46h.
The Backstreet Boys will fill the Sphere. Well, hopefully, they’ll fill it. The early-naughts boy band announced Wednesday on social media “Into the Millennium,” its summer residency at the globular marvel.
“Backstreet’s baaaaaack baby!” lead boy Nick Carter posted to Instagram. “We’re bringing the party to @SphereVegas this July 2025.”
Carter will reunite with his group’s four other co-founders (A.J. McLean, Brian Littrell, Kevin Richardson, and Howie Dorough) for nine shows on July 11, 12, 13, 18, 19, 20, 25, 26, and 27. More dates are expected if these shows sell out, and that’s the big if.
The Sphere seats 18,600, which is more than four times as many as the reunited Backstreets’ last Vegas residency venue (The Colosseum at Caesars Palace from April 8-9 and April 15-16, 2022), and nearly four times the size of Planet Hollywood’s Axis/Zappos/Bakkt Theater (today’s PH Live), which hosted their “Larger Than Life” residency in March and April of 2019.
Tickets go on sale to the public at 9 a.m. PT on Friday, February 21 at backstreetboys.com. Ticket-hotel packages go on sale Friday, February 14 via @vibeepresents.
Not only are the Backstreets back, so are their former arch-rivals New Kids on the Block, who have 24 shows booked at Dolby Live at Park MGM from June of this year through February 2026.
More Boyz
Not a boy band, but the best-selling R&B group of all time, Boyz II Men return to the Chelsea at the Cosmopolitan on August 8, 9, 15, and 16. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. PT on Friday, February 14 via Ticketmaster or cosmopolitanlasvegas.com. Citi card members have access to a presale happening now via citientertainment.com.
Eagles Lose Third Guitarist
Christ Holt has replaced Steuart Smith as the touring guitarist for the Eagles during the veteran rock band’s current Sphere residency, which ends April 12. Smith, who has toured with the “Hotel California” hitmakers since 2001, has left the group due to Parkinson’s disease.
“It is with profound regret that, due to performance issues associated with my recently diagnosed Parkinsonism, I find that I must bow out of my role with the Eagles while I can still do so gracefully,” Smith said in a media statement. “It’s been a great quarter of a century, and I had hoped to be able to finish out this year with the band, but I must now do what’s best for all concerned.”
Smith himself replaced Don Felder, who was fired from the band over creative and financial differences in 2001. Felder was a replacement for original Eagles guitarist Bernie Leadon, who quit the band he co-founded due to creative differences in 1975.
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