Boyz II Men Planning Big Comeback

(andPOP) - "Are you sure it's called 'The Remedy'?" a skeptical clerk at a retail record store asks me.

"Yes, it's their latest album."

"Well, it's not in our database. We don't have it. Sorry," he says.

Boyz II Men fans in search of the group's seventh album won't find it in stores in the U.S. or Canada.

The album, their second independent release, was available in Japan and other Asian countries two months before they even started selling it on their official website for their North American fans.

"We are ushering in what is going to be a new age of consumption," Boyz II Men's Shawn Stockman says. "The U.S., one of the world's largest recording industries, has shut down and we just want to make sure our fans can get what they want, when they want, where they know they can get it.

"We want to avoid the pre-hyped marketing schemes that many record companies are doing to sell music."

The group has been off the radar recently, because, they say, they have been touring the world extensively.

They have also been working on something big.

Boyz II Men have recently re-signed with Universal Records to work on a new album, which will be a collection of Motown hits from the '60s and '70s. They are co-producing this album with Randy Jackson, one of the judges on American Idol.

"Our fans have requested this, and the music is coming out very nicely," Nathan Morris says.

This collection of Motown hits will include classics like the Temptations' "Just My Imagination" and many more.

Their sold-out concert at Casino Rama on July 12 reminded their die-hard fans just how much they have been missed. The crowd went wild, dancing and screaming. At one point when Boyz II Men started to give out roses, girls were running wild like it was the Calgary stampede.

"The concert was amazing, but I was getting scared because the platform was shaking underneath!" Janice Tran, an excited fan, recalls.

Boyz II Men didn't disappoint a single soul at the concert, only leaving the fans hungry for more.