Sofia and Cinzia headed to the Chicago area the weekend of Canadian Thanksgiving (October 11-12, 2025) to see Nick Carter!
We saw his concerts in Des Plaines and St. Charles and went to the St. Charles Soundcheck party.
Ran into some old friends and had an awesome weekend!
This was one of our fave Nick tours. Hope he adds more dates!
It's that time of year again! Our 8th Annual Boy Band Break Fantasy Boy Band Draft!
Here's how it works. Cinzia, Lydia, Sofia and a random picker (LouBot 5000) have all created a 5 member Boy Band.
Throughout this week (Sunday October 5th - Saturday October 11th, 2025) YOU can vote for your favourite Boy Band across all of our platforms. Only 1 vote allowed per platform but you can vote all on of them - YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Spotify, Twitter/X and TikTok (if I can figure out how to set it up lol). You do not need to vote for the same band on each platform. Each vote counts as 1 point.
If any of the actual Boy Band Members interact with the draft (Retweet, Comment, make a video encouraging other to vote, etc) we get 5 bonus points per action.The team with the most points is crowned the winner.
Sofia has won 5 out of the 7 previous drafts. Is it finally time for Cinzia or Lydia (or LouBot) to take her crown?
Here are this year's teams:
Cinzia's Team - Fun Boyz Posse: Chris Kirkpartick from *NSYNC (as always), Joe Jonas from the Jonas Brothers, Jeff Timmons from 98 Degrees, AJ McLean from the Backstreet Boys and Lance Bass from *NSYNC
Lydia's Team - SodaPop Boys: Andrew Choi (Voice Actor of Juni in K-Pop Demon Hunters), Kevin Richardson from the Backstreet Boys, Ashley Parker Angel from O-Town, Joey Fatone from *NSYNC and Nick Lachey from 98 Degrees
LouBot 5000's Team - BB Builderz: Mark Feehily from Westlife (my apologizes for incorrectly saying he was from BBMAK), Kevin Jonas from the Jonas Brothers, Jordan Knight from New Kids on the Block, Drew Lachey from 98 Degrees and Jon Knight from New Kids on the Block
Sofia's Team - SyncTown: Nick Carter from the Backstreet Boys, JC Chasez from *NSYNC, Donnie Wahlberg from New Kids on the Block, Trevor Penick from O-Town and Erik-Michael Estrada from O-Town
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A few weeks late but here is our 98 Degrees "Full Circle" album review (after a 15-20 min tangent about the CNE lol).
Love this album! Have you listened to it yet? Do you have a favourite of the new songs?
p.s. Cinzia did go to the CNE show and had an awesome time in the front row!
Lucky #7!
Boy Band Break is celebrating our 7th anniversary of podcasting! 335 episodes in and still going strong!
Thank you to everyone that have stuck around with us for 7 years and hello to any new listeners! we appreciate you so much!
On today's episode Lydia returns and we play some boy band trivia from Karah-Leigh Hancock's "Boy Bands Ultimate Trivia Book". How do you think we did? Play along with us!
On today's episode Sofia and Cinzia talk about the Backstreet Boys Millennium 2.0 album that was released on July 11, 2025.
Have you listened to it yet?
Cinzia went to the Pop2000 Tour at Casino Rama and did a M&G with Chris Kirkpatrick and O-Town
Sorry for the delay in updates! We were having some tech issues.
It's summer and it's getting hot in here...one might say 98 Degrees? ;)
On today's episode, Cinzia recaps the 98 Degrees Meet & Greet at Sunrise Records in Mississauga Ontario Canada, as well as the 98 Degrees Concert at Niagara Falls!
If you are in the Toronto, Ontario area, they are playing the CNE on August 23rd!
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It's officially summer so things are heating up in the Boy Band world! We have some updates for you!
Chatting about BSB Vegas Afterparties and Howie Eatz, 98 Degrees at the CNE, Jo Bro tour date changes and more!
Today Sofia and Cinzia review the latest Joe Jonas (from the Jonas Brothers) solo album "Music for People who Believe in Love"
Have you checked out the album yet? What's your fave song?
P.s. - sorry if Cinzia's sound is a bit off. Hope to have it fixed by next episode
Shout out to our listener Alison H for recommending that we check out Karah-Leigh Hancock's latest book "Boy Bands Ultimate Trivia Book".
On today's episode we use our handy wheel to figure out which Boy Band we should do the Trivia of. Cinzia and Sofia compete head to head to see how well we know (or don't know lol) Boy Bands. Play along with us to see how you do!
You might remember Karah from when she was on the podcast chatting about a previous book "Backstreet Boys 30th Anniversary" (Episode 229: https://youtu.be/WBsnFXiEGcc?si=x3upX7edFIgxezU0)
If you are looking to purchase this book, it is available on Amazon. (This is not sponsored, nor do we get anything from your purchases. Just wanted to help you find it!)
Canada: https://www.amazon.ca/Boy-Bands-Ultimate-Trivia-Book/dp/0760390142/
US: https://www.amazon.com/Boy-Bands-Ultimate-Trivia-Book/dp/0760390142/
It's a very cool book, broken up by decades and has lots of colourful pics. It also has some Canadian Boy Bands! Let us know if you want us to play this again!
Nick Carter from the Backstreet Boys has released his newest solo album on May 15, 2025 called "Love Life Tragedy"
Although currently there are no physical albums out, you can listen online: https://ffm.to/lovelifetragedy
On today's episode Sofia and Cinzia do a track by track review. Obviously we love it.
What are your favourite songs on the album?
At one point we reference Rose's article on The Darkside BSB for the two versions of Cold Night. Here's here album review: https://darksidebsb.com/2025/05/15/love-life-tragedy-a-musical-glimpse-into-nick-carters-soul/
On today's episodes we chat about some Boy Band Updates (like NKOTB Vegas VIPs) and then take some really old O-Town quizzes to see how we do. (Not great, not terrible lol)
On today's episode we recap the new documentary "The Carters: Hurts to Love You" on Paramount+
Directed by Soleil Moon Frye, she uses old home video footage and interviews with Angel and Nick Carter, Lori Knight, Ginger Carter, Scout Willis and more to tell the story of the Carter family and what was happening behind the scenes. Addictions and Mental Illness caused Angel and Nick to lose their three siblings, Leslie, Aaron and Bobbie Jean, and their father Bob over the course of 11 years.
A very well done documentary.
Have you watched it yet? What are your thoughts?
In today's episode we have some Boy Band updates.
Then we remembered when Cinzia and Sofia travelled to Kentucky 10 years ago, to see Kevin Richardson and Brian Littrell from the Backstreet Boys as they got inducted into the Kentucky Music Hall of Fame.
On today's episode we chatted about JONASCON 2025 with the Jonas Brothers.
Note: we did not go to the event and recorded this before the event talking about all the fun stuff they were planning on doing.
If you went to JONASCON and want to chat about your experience, comment below or send us an email!
Today we chat about some BSB updates like the Boys being on a NASCAR, Brian's son Baylee being on American Idol, Nick's new single and more!
Five (5ive) has reunited with all 5 members!
J. Abz, Sean, Scott and Rich are back and going on tour in November! So far only UK dates but fingers crossed for International ones.
We also reviewed their Greatest Hits album.
Are you excited for the Five reunion?
What's your fave Five song?
Which Boy Band do you hope comes back next?
More Boy Band Updates! Big Time Rush, Joey McIntyre and BSB tour Updates. Plus 5ive has some news coming up!
Also Cinzia went to the Jonas Brothers Merch Pop Up and Surprise 20th Anniversary Concert on February 15, 2025 in Toronto at Massey Hall! They did a 20 song set plus filmed 2 songs to use in their upcoming Christmas Movie!
The Backstreet Boys are Back baby!
They have announced a new Las Vegas Residency at the very cool, state of the art concert venue, The Sphere. They will be there July 11 - August 3, 2025.
Plus they are releasing Millennium 2.0 on July 11th!
Are you thinking of going?
As predicted, once we did a Boy Band update episode a few weeks ago, the boy banders decided to make more announcements LOL
Today we talk about O-Town's new VIPs, the Backstreet Boys getting ready to make an announcement this Friday, the Jonas Brothers spotted in Toronto (sadly not by us) and more!
