Mar 19, 2019 | 90's NOW, Music
Aunt Becky… We’ve got word on how “Aunt Becky” can get you into university the wrong way. Elsewhere under the category of ‘wrong way,’ we’ll talk about the R. Kelly interview. Feel free to guess the answer to Kelly’s Trivia… we tried too… a lot!!...
Mar 12, 2019 | Blog, Books
“But failing is universal. It’s a language almost everybody understands. Without slipups and mistakes and doing the wrong things because the right ones still seem so scary, we’d never figure out who we are. Plus, failure’s never permanent. It’s part of the...
Mar 8, 2019 | Kelly Alexander Show, Music
Nuela Charles… Joining us on The Kelly Alexander Show this week is Edmonton-based recording artist Nuela Charles who is nominated for a Juno Award in the adult contemporary album of the year category at this year’s ceremony. Rising young artist Cassidy...
Mar 6, 2019 | 90's NOW, Music
Luke Perry… We’re talking about Luke Perry and The Prodigy’s Keith Flint on the show, as the ‘sad news’ list got longer this week with some losses from our favorite decade. So many of us are still in shock that Luke and Keith passed away so young and our best...
Mar 1, 2019 | Blog, Kelly Alexander Show, Music
Almost five years since her last album, Canadian pop singer Victoria Duffield is finally back with her third studio album Day Won, which is also her first record to be released independently. Canadian radio listeners will best remember Duffield for her Top 40 hit from...
Feb 28, 2019 | Kelly Alexander Show, Music
Victoria Duffield… Joining us on The Kelly Alexander Show this week is pop recording artist Victoria Duffield who hails from British Columbia but is now calling Toronto home. Victoria has just released her new album called “Day Won” and is here to...
Feb 24, 2019 | Blog, Music, Pop Culture
Ah, 2009. When Lady Gaga was still wearing dresses made of meat and releasing super provocative music videos to push the envelope, when soccer moms were jamming along to Kesha brushing her teeth with a bottle of jack, when everyone was upset Adam Lambert lost American...
Feb 21, 2019 | Kelly Alexander Show, Music
Missy Elliott… The Kelly Alexander Show is very happy to continue our special series celebrating Janet Jackson’s induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame by speaking to Grammy award-winning recording artist Missy Elliott! Missy and Janet have been friends...
Feb 17, 2019 | Blog, Music
She spent four years out of the spotlight and it’s been almost six years since her last album, but Avril Lavigne is finally back. While some music fans like myself may have just blindly assumed that Lavigne was taking her sweet time in between albums—especially since...
Feb 14, 2019 | Blog, Pop Culture, TV
On September 22, 1994, NBC aired the pilot of a new television sitcom called Friends. It began just as simply as the title suggests, with five twentysomething friends lounging at a coffeehouse, discussing mundane details about their personal lives. These people don’t...
Feb 14, 2019 | Kelly Alexander Show, Music
Jimmy Jam… The Kelly Alexander Show is very happy to continue our special series celebrating Janet Jackson’s induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame by speaking to Grammy award-winning music producer Jimmy Jam. Jimmy has known Janet for decades and started...
Feb 11, 2019 | 90's NOW, Music
Your Favorite Zip Code is Coming Back… We’ve got word from Tori Spelling on another re-boot TV show from our favorite decade! See what side of the tie-break you’re on with Kelly’s Trivia and Sharon’s Fast Five gets “yer Hip Hop on!” Also, it’s the...
Feb 8, 2019 | Blog, Music, Pop Culture
Ariana Grande hasn’t always been the global superstar and household name she is in 2019, at least not in the ways of mainstream media and radio exposure that most pop icons of the current generation have earned their names in our popular culture. But somewhere between...
Feb 7, 2019 | Kelly Alexander Show, Music
Tina Landon… We’re very happy to continue our special series celebrating Janet Jackson’s induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame by speaking to award-winning choreographer Tina Landon. Tina knows Janet very well and was a huge part of her success in the...
Feb 2, 2019 | 90's NOW, Music
The Jacksons… So, we’ve got all kinds of emotions on some of our favourites from the 90’s. The Jacksons are unhappy about the new documentary about Michael, Annie Lennox is happy to use the f-word and encourages us all to use it too and Jada Pinkett-Smith is...
Jan 30, 2019 | Kelly Alexander Show, Music
David Wild… This week on The Kelly Alexander Show we’re very happy to kick off our special series celebrating Janet Jackson’s induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame by speaking to Emmy nominated writer David Wild. We’re also joined this week by graphic...
Jan 29, 2019 | Blog, Books, Movies
“Don’t confront me with my failures. I have not forgotten them.” This was quite possibly the most exhausting book I’ve ever read. And given what it’s about, I’m surprised that I often found it so exhausting, depressing, and...
Jan 24, 2019 | Kelly Alexander Show, Music
Robin S… We’re very happy to welcome to The Kelly Alexander Show award-winning recording artist Robin S who’s had a ton of success in the dance and pop music community with hit songs like “Luv 4 Luv” and “Show Me Love.”...
Jan 18, 2019 | Blog, Music
Just two and a half years ago, Maggie Rogers—a small town Maryland native—was a student at NYU’s Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music. During her senior year of high school, she had turned a broom closet into a makeshift studio and recorded her first folk album,...
Jan 18, 2019 | 90's NOW, Music
The Cranberries… Back for more fun from our favourite decade! Kelly takes us into another round of T-t-t-trivia that’ll make you smarter for hearing it… true story, kinda… and Sharon’s Fast Five has a great R&B flavour from ‘97! We’ll find out...
Jan 14, 2019 | Blog, Books, Movies, TV
“I’m rolling my eyes right now, but that’s who I was. It’s who I am. I have a hard time just existing. I always think that if only I could be somewhere else, with someone else, doing something else, then I would be happy, finally. The hole...
Jan 4, 2019 | Blog, Movies, Music, Pop Culture, TV
When I started university, I started watching The Lizzie McGuire Movie at the end of every semester as a way to relax. It may be cliché, full of plot holes, and targeted towards millennial preteens, but very few movies have the power that the film’s most famous song...
Jan 4, 2019 | 90's NOW, Music
Jennifer Lopez… We’re talking a bit of TV with some 90’s reboots, the great egg nog debate and how Jennifer Lopez might not actually be that particular. See how you do with Kelly’s T-t-t-t-Trivia, and how Sharon’s Fast Five isn’t all that fast. Baby makes...
Dec 28, 2018 | Blog, Books, Pop Culture
From twists and turns in The Woman in the Window, to socially relevant novels of fiction, to powerful new memoirs by Sally Field and Tina Turner, these are our picks for the 10 best books of the year. The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn (Photo: William Morrow) Anna...
