Boston rockers Extreme are currently in South America on their Pornograffitti Live! 25th Anniversary tour. They checked in with the following update after their June 18th show in Buenos Aires, Argentina:

"Buenos Aires, Argentina! It's been 23 years and we did not know what to expect but you completely blew us away. We have never heard an audience sing every note of every song like the way you did. Your passion and love for the music is just tremendous. You were so beautiful. This was a very emotional night for us so we thank you with every inch of our souls. We promise to come back to your beautiful country to see you all soon."
 
Love, 
Nuno, Gary, Pat and KFigg

Extreme guitarist Nuno Bettencourt recently spoke with Greg Prato for Songfacts. A couple of excerpts from the interview can be found below:

Q: Who are some of your favorite songwriters?

A: “I’m a big Queen fan, I'm a big Beatles fan - great songwriters. I love Bread, I think they're great songwriters. But there's people that write rock songs amazingly well, like AC/DC. Journey were great songwriters. Queen was definitely top of the rock, and the Beatles were top of the pop/melodic stuff. Everybody else that I love was in the middle of that.”

Q: You mentioned being a fan of Kix earlier, too.

A: “I saw Kix probably 12 times through the years. There was a club called Celebration that they'd play in Boston, and we'd go down to watch. I just thought they were one of the coolest bands, especially live. I used to love watching them live, and I thought they were one of those bands that didn't get their just-desserts.”

Q: What are Extreme's plans to write and record a new album?

A: “I’m writing all the time. We're in the studio right now with a couple of friends that are writers, and we're working on some new stuff. So we're constantly writing. With Extreme, we should have done an album ages ago, but we're slowly but surely starting to write stuff.”

Read the full interview at this location.