THIS IS US TOUR: Backstreet Boys Fill Out Spring, Summer Schedule

The Backstreet Boys [ tickets ] have tacked more dates onto their spring 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 11 in Napa, CA, followed by a month-long break before hitting the tour trail at full steam June 1 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. The full schedule is shown at right

"This Is Us," the boy band's seventh studio set and follow-up to 2007's "Unbreakable," surfaced in October 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 last fall with LiveDaily. "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 Dec. 9 and return to port Dec. 13 after visiting Key West and Cozumel. The trip is currently sold out, according to the band's website.

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