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Barenaked Ladies, Grinning Streak: Album Review

by MJ on Jun 10, 2013 • 2 Comments

Barenaked Ladies grin themselves into complacency on their latest album.

Spin Cycle: Barenaked Ladies’ Stop Us If You’ve Heard This One Before

by MJ on May 14, 2012 • No Comments

Album Reviews / Pop Music / reissues / rock music / Spin Cycle

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!

Popblerd! Presents: The Top 40 Albums of 2010 (10-6)

by MJ on Dec 30, 2010 • 1 Comment

Album Reviews / hip-hop / Lists! / music / Pop Music / rock music

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!

by MJ on Oct 22, 2010 • 1 Comment

Album Reviews / music / New Releases / Pop Music / rock music

(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 the 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

by MJ on Oct 19, 2010 • No Comments

Country Music / music / New Releases / news / Pop Music / rock music

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”

by MJ on Jul 29, 2010 • 2 Comments

music / Pop Music

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"

by MJ on May 3, 2010 • No Comments

Album Reviews / music / Pop Music

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??

by MJ on Mar 30, 2010 • No Comments

music / New Releases / news / Pop Music / rock music / soul music

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 […]