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...
Dec 27, 2018 | Blog, Movies, Pop Culture
From the message of believing in the power within yourself in A Wrinkle in Time, to the horrifying truth behind conversion therapy in Boy Erased, to the overt campiness in A Simple Favor—these are our picks for the 10 best movies of the year. A Wrinkle in Time (Photo:...
Dec 24, 2018 | Kelly Alexander Show, Music
Simone Denny & Four80East… We’ve got some great guests this week on The Kelly Alexander Show kicking off with Juno Award-winning vocalist Simone Denny who has found a ton of fame in Canada and around the world with dance group Love Inc. as well as...
Dec 18, 2018 | Blog, Music, Pop Culture
From Camila Cabello’s whispery register on “Never Be the Same” to Carly Rae Jepsen reminding us all how to dance with ourselves on “Party For One,” these are our picks for the 50 best songs of 2018. This year was a mixed bag for most pop songs, with a long list of...
Dec 18, 2018 | 90's NOW, Music
Janet Jackson… Kelly can barely contain her excitement that Janet Jackson will soon be a part of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, class of 2019! Kelly makes sure to tell Sharon and Adam exactly why Miss Jackson should have been inducted years ago! Kelly and...
Dec 13, 2018 | Kelly Alexander Show, Music
Barbra Lica & Bülow We welcome to The Kelly Alexander Show a rising star in the world of jazz, Barbra Lica, who has recently released her fourth album called “You’re Fine” and is here to tell us all about it. Sharon Hyland, our music editor joins...
Dec 11, 2018 | Blog, Music, Pop Culture
2018 has been an eventful year for pop music, with several highly anticipated sophomore albums (like Troye Sivan, Alessia Cara, and Jess Glynne) and ambitious debuts (like Camila Cabello, MNEK, and Bebe Rexha). The world of music grows bigger and bigger by the minute...
Dec 8, 2018 | 90's NOW, Music
The Conners… We’re making a 90’s NOW connection with some news on a reunion tour for next summer and rumblings of a Spice Girls festival spot. Kelly and Sharon offer you up an analysis of just what is going on with The Conners and Murphy Brown as their...
Dec 8, 2018 | Kelly Alexander Show, Music
Classified and Christina Esteban… Welcome to The Kelly Alexander Show! This week we’re joined by Juno Award-winning rapper Classified talking about his latest album, what artist he sings along to when he’s driving in the car and why he is really into...
Dec 5, 2018 | Blog, Music
If you remember when Canadian singer/songwriter Alessia Cara arrived on the scene in 2015 with her R&B-charged debut single, “Here”—a sleeper hit and introvert anthem about not fitting in at a party and disliking the behavior of all the cool kids—it was clear that...
