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Steven Page Shares New Song 'Isolation' In A Performance From Home

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Steven Page Shares New Song 'Isolation' In A Performance From Home

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Steven Page, who you may recognize as the lead singer of Barenaked Ladies, shares songs written while isolated during the pandemic.

Steven Page On World Cafe

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Barenaked Ladies On Mountain Stage

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Barenaked Ladies On Mountain Stage

The band's infectious hooks, sweet vocal harmonies and wit have made a huge impact in the pop world. In this archival Mountain Stage performance from 1995, you'll hear a band on the rise.

Barenaked Ladies On Mountain Stage

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Barenaked Ladies: Same Quirk, Younger Crowd

In the '90s, Barenaked Ladies' biggest hits were bouncy, playful songs like "If I Had $1,000,000" and "One Week." Snacktime!, the new children's album from the alt-rock band, finds Barenaked Ladies bantering irreverently, as usual.

Barenaked Ladies: Same Quirk, Younger Crowd

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Barenaked Ladies Debut, on Their Own Label

After the more than 15 years together, the five-piece Canadian band Barenaked Ladies is having a first. They are releasing their latest album, Barenaked Ladies Are Me, on their own record label. Two members of the band, Steven Page and Kevin Hearn, elaborate.

Barenaked Ladies Debut, on Their Own Label

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Barenaked Ladies in Concert

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For more than 15 years, the Canadian pop-rock band Barenaked Ladies has spread its wry, playful pop sound across North America and beyond, in the process attracting a devoted fan base, releasing seven studio albums, selling out tours and even launching an independent record label.

Barenaked Ladies in concert on XPN Live Fridays - 09/15/2006

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Barenaked Ladies Meet Shakespeare

Shakespeare was not only a poet and a playwright but a songwriter as well. The famous bard wrote songs for most of his comedies. But fortunately for the Barenaked Ladies, only the lyrics survived. Celeste Headlee of Detroit Public Radio reports.

Barenaked Ladies Meet Shakespeare

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Brothers Creeggan

Bassist Jim and keyboard player Andy were founding members of the popular Canadian band Barenaked Ladies. Jim's still with the group; Andy left five years ago to study composition. But the two brothers have grown up singing together, so, whenever they can, they make time for their own band — called the Brothers Creeggan. Bellamy Pailthorp from member station KPLU reports. The Brothers Creeggan have released three CD's on their own label that are distributed through Page Music Distribution, 20 Railside Road, North York, Ontario, Canada M3A 1A3.

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Barenaked Ladies On World Cafe

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Barenaked Ladies On World Cafe

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The Canadian rock band bares all with a totally revamped style on its latest album. Looks like longtime fans will be more than satisfied after the wait. Hear the band perform new songs from the album (as well as some old ones), live in Philadelphia.

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Barenaked Ladies: Clever and Hummable

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On Barenaked Ladies Are Me, the band has composed another cohesive, enjoyable and wryly mature set of pop songs. Continuing in the melodic pop-rock vein of the group's last few releases, the record is awash in the clever witticisms and hummable hooks that fans have come to expect.

Barenaked Ladies in Studio on World Cafe - 10/13/2006

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