The list of add-ins for the Barenaked Ladies-branded Ben & Jerry’s flavor, “If I Had 1,000,000 Flavours,” has more syllables than the verses for “One Week”: More »
As part of book giant Borders’ slashing of its DVD and CD sections, the store here in Athens, Ga., is selling its CD and DVD inventory at 50% off. The standard pre-liquidation price for a CD? $18.99. So at 50% off, most of the remaining inventory was still as much as it would have been at Best Buy, Target, or Wal-Mart. In fact, in most cases the prices were exactly twice what they were at the Big Boxers, particularly in the DVD/Blu-Ray section. I decided to document the dregs of Borders’ music collection to see what people weren’t buying, much like I did last year during the Circuit City fire sale. All of the releases documented after the jump had at least four copies for sale.
It’s been, um, a few weeks since the Barenaked Ladies returned from their Ships & Dip cruise through the Caribbean, and I guess that means it’s been long enough for lead singer Steven Page to think about going solo. Yes, he’s leaving the band to “pursue solo projects including theatrical opportunities” (ooh, maybe FedEx Man: The Musicalis really going to happen!) while the rest of the guys soldier on. Full statement after the jump.
Steven Page’s dalliance with coke parties and the ladies of Syracuse might not be the sort of image that Disney is looking for, especially with Miley Cyrus’ latest troubles in mind, so the Barenaked Ladies have bowed out of the Disney Music Block Party Tour, which also features They Might Be Giants. More »
Quirky-dull Canadian pop act the Barenaked Ladies has become somewhat well-known over the last decade and a half–but I doubt anyone would have guessed that a dark side lurked under their squeaky-clean exterior. More »
The number of No. 1 songs on the Billboard Hot 100 by Canadians who aren’t Céline Dion, Bryan Adams, or Nelly Furtado is smaller than you might think, especially since some of the aforementioned artists’ songs had such deathless runs on the pop charts. (Those successes even overshadowed their own work; for example, I forgot that Adams’ Sting/Rod Stewart collaboration was also a chart-topping hit.) So let’s take a second to celebrate chart-topping Canadian content like Alannah Myles’ “Black Velvet,” which hit the Hot 100’s top spot in March 1990 and was followed by, um, nothing else. (Myles’ previous single, the Alanis-prototype “Love Is,” actually hit No. 36 on the chart. Speaking of the former You Can’t Do That On Television star, “You Oughta Know” only peaked at No. 6 on the Hot 100, although it did top the Modern Rock charts from July 22 to Aug. 19, 1995.)
As part of my larger theory that all music will be children’s music before long, the Disney Music Block Party Tour will be hitting amphitheaters this summer with acts like Barenaked Ladies, Dan Zanes and They Might Be Giants on the bill. More »
