Barenaked Ladies grin themselves into complacency on their latest album.
Spin Cycle: Barenaked Ladies’ Stop Us If You’ve Heard This One Before
Barenaked Ladies gather demos, remixes and rarities for “Stop Us If You’ve Heard This One Before.” Is this for super-fans only, or will casual fans dig this too? Check out our review!
New Release Report 5/8/12: Welcome To Strangeland
Pop/rockers Keane have a new album out today. Who else makes the cut for key new releases this week? Click over and check out the list!
Spin Cycle: Kevin Hearn’s “Cloud Maintenance”
Although best known as the keyboardist of Barenaked Ladies, Kevin Hearn is an accomplished multi-instrumentalist and songwriter who has recorded several albums outside of the BNL fold. Although many of these releases were recorded along with his band Thin Buckle, the just-released Cloud Maintenance is the second full-length to be released under his name alone. It’s a whimsical affair that falls in line with the rest of his solo work. For those who have never heard Hearn’s solo work (or […]
Popblerd! Presents: The Top 40 Albums of 2010 (10-6)
We’re in the Top Ten!! Coming in to the home stretch, we’re looking at albums by Band of Horses, Nas & Damian Marley and Robyn.
If “Page One” is This Good, Then I Can’t Wait to Read the Rest!
(please forgive my awful puns) I’ve said it before…the moment I became a Barenaked Ladies fan for life was when I went with my ex to see theĀ band at Jones Beach in 2001. The entire show was good, but what impressed me the most was that singer/songwriter/guitarist Steven Page had a hell of a set of pipes. By the end of the show, I was wondering why this guy wasn’t on Broadway or performing with the opera. Although I […]
New Release Report 10/19: Welcome to Sundown
After a couple of blah weeks, the quality of releases picks up a little bit with this week’s offerings (at least I think so). Here are the albums to watch for the 10/19 release date. A lot’s happened to Kings of Leon since “Only by the Night” was released two years ago. “Sex on Fire” became huge. “Use Somebody” became huger. When the dust cleared, everyone’s favorite band that hadn’t broken big yet officially broke big. “Night” went platinum, “Sex” […]
Steven Page Starts a New Chapter with “Indecision”
I’d been a fan of Barenaked Ladies for a few years by the time I saw them perform at Jones Beach back in 2001. My attendance at that show not only increased my love for the Canadian band, it also gave me new appreciation for the vocal skills of one Steven Page. I’m pretty sure I said to myself at some point “this guy doesn’t really need the band”. That doesn’t mean I wanted them to break up. I wasn’t […]
Barenaked Ladies Turn the Page with "All in Good Time"
If you’re a band, it goes without saying that losing a member will have an incredible impact on your band dynamic and sound, especially when that member is a founding member and one of your lead singers. That’s the position that Canadian pop/rock band Barenaked Ladies found themselves in when Steven Page abruptly left a year or so ago. While the band’s biggest hits were performed by co-founder/co-lead vocalist Ed Robertson, to me Page was the face and voice of […]
BNL, Badu and Usher: Win, Win, Win??
It’s been a pretty quiet March for new music, but opposite to what people normally say about this particular month, it’s going in like a lamb and out like a lion in terms of new music. Here are three albums coming out today that I’m looking forward to. Barenaked Ladies “All in Good Time”: I’m curious to hear what these guys sound like without Steven Page. The fact that BNL is known to a segment of the population as a […]