My guest Joe Valenzuela, creator of the blog Milk Carton Pop Stars has a special friendship and fandom with Martika. She was super hot in the late 80's and early 90's. We talk about her time on Kids Incorporated as well as some other alumni from the show (a.k.a. Fergie), Martika working with Prince, and how burnout can affect all artists in the business.

Mixtape Monday - our series where we revisit the highlights and memories of this summer's Mixtape Tour in California! The Mixtape Tour featured NKOTB, Salt N' Pepa, En Vogue, and Rick Astley. Welcome Pam & Jen! Pam is jks_stingy on Instagram. Somehow, these amazing ladies avoided spoilers of the tour. Pam fills us in about a very rare unicorn sighting!

Welcome Justin Lamb from the podcast "Friend Request" as my guest! This show focuses on the Montreal-based music collective Bran Van 3000. Their biggest hit was "Drinking In L.A." We also discuss "Big Shiny Tunes", how Can Con works, and the great BV3000 album artwork.

Mixtape Monday - our series where we revisit the highlights and memories of this summer's Mixtape Tour in California! The Mixtape Tour featured NKOTB, Salt N' Pepa, En Vogue, and Rick Astley. Welcome young Jax and his dad, Joseph from Texas! Tracey also joins us as part of the fun. Jax shares his excitement at meeting his "real" dad, Donnie, Jax's feelings on not being old enough to go on the cruise, and Bluebloods/Grey's Anatomy talk!

Michaell Magrutsche joins me to talk about the hip hop duo Kid 'n Play. The DJ Jazzy Jeff & Fresh Prince comparisons, House Party, the cartoon, the "kick step", and more!

Mixtape Monday - our series where we revisit the highlights and memories of this summer's Mixtape Tour in California! The Mixtape Tour featured NKOTB, Salt N' Pepa, En Vogue, and Rick Astley. Welcome Jenny, Jks_mentalshot on Instagram! She came from Australia to be with us. She talks about her Ultimate M&G, her birthday with the NKOTB, and our ridiculous car rides in the Tesla.

From the hit TV series "Wahlburgers", Brandon Wahlberg joins us from Dorchester, MA for a chat! Brandon is a talented musician and songwriter. We share some of his recent tracks, chat about his recordings with cousin Dan and Big Ace, talk fitness, growing up in a famous family, and he shares some stories about the lovely matriarch of the Wahlberg clan, Alma. 

Mixtape Monday - our series where we revisit the highlights and memories of this summer's Mixtape Tour in California! The Mixtape Tour featured NKOTB, Salt N' Pepa, En Vogue, and Rick Astley. Great friends Tracey and Amy are here to recount their adventures. They attended a large amount of shows all over the U.S. and have so much to share! The air fryer, Donnie's charades, The Slugga Lounge, and more.

All the way from Germany, Jesse Kolb is here! We talk about his home, Good Kreuznach, his experience in Snap!, racism, keeping true to yourself, his ongoing love of performing, and more! Follow Jesse on his adventures.

Mixtape Monday - our new series where we revisit the highlights and memories of this summer's Mixtape Tour in California! The Mixtape Tour featured NKOTB, Salt N' Pepa, En Vogue, and Rick Astley. This week I welcome Chrissy and Rebecca! You might have to watch this video to make sense of our chat at the end: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-JX_a_Ni9I&t=9s a.k.a. Craziest Facebook Live: Jordan Knight and Joey McIntyre in the Dressing Room (Chicago, 6/16/17)

Welcome YouTube's Guitar Dojo Nick Morrison to the show! We are discussing the beauty of a funky hard rock masterpiece, Pornograffitti by Boston's Extreme. Track-by-track, we take you back to an album that was so much more than "More Than Words".  We also talk visiting Japan, crafting epic guitar solos, and was Janet Jackson on this album?

Mixtape Monday - our new series where we revisit the highlights and memories of this summer's Mixtape Tour in California! The Mixtape Tour featured NKOTB, Salt N' Pepa, En Vogue, and Rick Astley. This week I welcome Chris from Rattail! We have some cruise & ceasar/bloody mary talk as well!

It's James P. White joining me for another "The Long and the Short of It"! We review the Top 10 songs of 1996, according to the Billboard charts. Jimmy also tells us about getting electrocuted.

Mixtape Monday - our new series where we revisit the highlights and memories of this summer's Mixtape Tour in California! The Mixtape Tour featured NKOTB, Salt N' Pepa, En Vogue, and Rick Astley. This week I welcome Paige from Texas! My American doppelganger.

Ryan Lane has been on The MixTape Tour this summer as a member of Illtown Sluggaz. Ryan shares his highlights of the tour so far, his experience as a member of the Harlem Boys Choir and all of the huge music legends he performed with, making music with Griffin McIntyre, and his fantastic voice!

Mixtape Monday - our new series where we revisit the highlights and memories of this summer's Mixtape Tour in California! The Mixtape Tour featured NKOTB, Salt N' Pepa, En Vogue, and Rick Astley. This week I welcome Andrea, our Mass Meow Meow, & Sabrina, my fellow Canadian! 

Awesome friend Nicole Niska is my guest! Remember 12 cassettes or CD's for $0.01? Of course, you do! Then we ended up paying for that dearly with what was termed "negative option billing". We go through the history of Columbia House and other such music clubs, as well as discuss how we had to actually WAIT for packages in the mail, other mail order subscription companies, and GASP the dear love of our childhood, Scholastic Book Club days at school.

Mixtape Monday - our new series where we revisit the highlights and memories of this summer's Mixtape Tour in California! The Mixtape Tour featured NKOTB, Salt N' Pepa, En Vogue, and Rick Astley. This week for our first special, I welcome Anna & Ness from NKOTB Polls. They travelled from The Netherlands to California to attend the shows!

Planet 12 L*A*W joins us for this episode! His musical talent is extensive, as he has worked with greats like George Clinton and Amy Winehouse. We talk MixTape Tour, the days of the Arsenio Hall show, and so much more. Make sure to check out his newest single, "America's Inception".

Quinn and Charlie join me to chat about Australian export Silverchair. With their huge amount of hits and success at such a young age, things got complicated for the band, and their music reflected their struggles. We discuss their musicianship, their best albums, and for some weird reason, I talk about washing dishes and menopause.

Welcome Mark Adam Miller from the alternative pop/rock group Deadeye Dick! We chat about their huge hit from the Dumb & Dumber Soundtrack, "New Age Girl", package tours, the best of NOLA, the effects of the grunge era in 1995, and more cool tales from the history of the band!

Kendra and Jackie from No More Late Fees Podcast are to talk about their favourite group, Hanson! We discuss Jackie's Angelfire Hanson fanpage BITD, the other Hanson siblings who make music, the Masked Singer, our podcast family, MMMMHops beer and my hatred of IPA's, and always more.

This week I am joined by the 4 founding members of the band who had hits like "I Believe" and "Hey Leonardo (She Likes Me For Me)", The ReUnion of Souls! Buckle in for a fun conversation. We talk sharing a rehearsal studio with James Brown, road stories, secrets of the greatest music producers, my Canadian accent, and more.

Our friend James P. White is here for another episode of "The Long and the Short Of It"! Let's take a trip back to the Billboard Top 10 of 1995. 

One of the best artists and songwriters of the era - Debbie Gibson, released her 3rd album "Anything Is Possible" in late 1990. It was a foray into a more mature pop sound, and an album that should have been much bigger. Join Kendra and I as we review it, track-by-track!

Paul and Lucia, the foundation of the UK house/techno band Sunscreem are here from the UK! We talk about the chart position struggle of their hit "Love U More", the gig they did with "aliens", and being a married couple keeping a band together for so many years.

Connor Gotto set out to create a print magazine that celebrates our retro musicians monthly - Retropop! Based out of the UK, it ships worldwide as a subscription, just like the way we used to do things. Connor is my special guest this week. What were some of your favourite print magazines? Call our hotline at 780-851-8785 and leave a message.

We could not get enough of 2ge+ther history, especially when the wicked awesome Evan Farmer joins me on the show! His role as "the heartthrob" Jerry O'Keefe was a whirlwind of good times. We chat about the show, the music, touring with Britney Spears, his time hosting TRL, and the loss of Michael Cuccione, a true light in everyone's life. We also talk about the turn he took into carpentry, home reno TV, and his book!

Jackie and Danielle, the hosts of No More Late Fees Podcast, join forces with me to discuss the awesome boyband that was 2ge+ther. The MTV creation was originally meant to be a parody movie of the boyband phenomenon, but then it became so much more!

Our friend James P. White is here for another episode of "The Long and the Short Of It"! Let's take a trip back to the Billboard Top 10 of 1994. 

We are honoured to welcome inspirational Inuk artist Susan Aglukark to the show! We talk about her award from last week's Juno Awards for her humanitarian work. Special guest Chrystal Plante, who works at the Edmonton Stollery Children's Hospital as an Indigenous Child and Family Engagement Coordinator, presents some questions and stories to share with Susan. Susan teaches us much about reconciliation, unlearning behaviours, finding herself, and finding joy in music.

Nitty Green from RIFF was such an awesome guest, we were happy to ask him back! We talk about his new solo releases, upcoming RIFF projects, Teddy Riley, Dallas Austin, and the origins of New Jack Swing, his Canadian experiences and love for Tarzan Dan, and the recent New Edition and upcoming MixTape Tour!

What about "Breakfast at Tiffany's"? The song is one of the longest lasting hits of the '90's, and Deep Blue Something's Todd Pipes fills us in on how the song has remained a radio staple throughout generations. Who from today's music world could he see performing it? The Phil Collins story, and how Naomi needs to find good BBQ.      

Kendra and I deep-dive one of the biggest selling albums ever, and an album that made history - Alanis Morissette's "Jagged Little Pill". I share a story about meeting young Alanis, the definition of irony,  the Dave Coulier rumour, the song we totally forgot about on the album, a fun announcement, and the cross eyed bear that you gave to me.

Welcome to Cody Reid! He has a YouTube channel called "The 80s Gamer", which has got a lot of attention by Blockheads of late because of his video reaction to NKOTB's "Bring Back The Time". There were tears involved, and Donnie Wahlberg himself reached out to Cody. We talk about the music business, his time on the TV show "Nashville", and so much more.

Chasen Hampton joins me as we go back in time with The Party! The incredible music group that started on the Mickey Mouse Club was a favourite. He tells us about working with Dr. Dre, Their hit Dokken cover, the insanity at the Toronto show, and how they even have a vodka! It was an honour to hear his fond memories of Tiffini Hale, and celebrate her life. 

Great Big Sea were one of Canada's most popular bands. Iconic. Sean McCann tells us about Newfoundland and the legendary East Coast kitchen parties, Being the Susan Lucci of the Juno Awards, The problem with streaming platforms, and his album of sea shantys, out now!

Multitalented Corina is joining me to relive the story behind her Billboard hit single "Temptation", The MTV/VH1 Tour, the battles she has overcome, playing Frido Kahlo in the movie "Cradle Will Rock", and the inspiration behind her new single "Tni Li Neshika".

A true pleasure to have Brad Fischetti as my guest. We discuss some of the highlights in L.F.O.'s history, such as touring with Britney Spears. Is the title of "boyband" something to avoid or embrace? We talk about Christianity and how to witness for Christ, and share heartfelt moments in memory of Rich Cronin and Devin Lima. 

Lead vocalist and writer Kevin Martin joins me to talk about why blues based rock band Candlebox has had great success for 30 years. We talk about how although they released hot albums in the '90's, they really found their niche in the 2000's. We discuss being the first band signed to Madonna's label Maverick, experiences with David Letterman, and the new album, "Wolves", out now!

Special guest Curtis Stigers made some great music in the '90's, and continues to do so today. We chat about his track on "The Bodyguard" soundtrack, his jazz re-creations of his hits, writing with legend Glen Ballard, his tracks on the "Sons of Anarchy" Soundtrack, including the theme. What happened to TV themes? 

The Irish Times described Pierce as one of the most important Irish artists of the last twenty years. He's here to share with an international audience, as we recollect working with John Simon, talk in depth about the art of performing, recording an album during a pandemic, and the new album, "Terrible Good". Welcome, Pierce Turner!

She is the stunning, powerful female behind the vocal in the Meat Loaf classic "I Would Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)" . A true honour to welcome Mrs. Loud, Lorraine Crosby to Dope Nostalgia. We discuss her role as a host on the UK show "Demand Country", Her music with Bonnie Tyler, performing on cruises, and how she became the voice on Meat Loaf's song. 

Kendra and I review the "Larger Than Life" third album of the Backstreet Boys. It broke sales records when it was released in May of 1999. Just what was so amazing about it? Hear Naomi rant in defense of boybands, while we have a good time reminiscing about an album that was all killer, no filler!

Fresh from their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, The Go-Go's drummer Gina Schock joins us! Gina recounts that night, and talks Drew Barrymore's fantastic introduction of the band. Gina's new book "Made In Hollywood" features years of photos she took throughout The Go-Go's history, special stories from the band, and guest appearances as well. So many great moments in their history, and we are so happy Gina shared. We even talk about how awesome daytimers are - the kind you WRITE in.

Kayo Shekoni is our guest! A multi-faceted entertainer, she has been a vocalist with many groups including Le Click, La Bouche, and Afro-dite. We discuss the Nordic Beat Scene and the music of Sweden, Where is Robert Haynes now, The Eurovision song contest, and more.

Two years of Dope Nostalgia this week! My guests are my pals and show regulars Kendra, Colin, and James. We review the last year of episodes, share some behind-the-scenes details, discuss the loss of Bob Saget, and introduce Colin to Jimmy's Fight Club.

Alberta country artist Duane Steele tells all this week about his '90's journey! We discuss his time in Nashville, how the music of Gordon Lightfoot got him through homesickness, working with Lisa Brokop, the current state of country music, his new release, and more!