Barenaked Ladies get their own ice cream

If you live in Canada, or will perhaps be traveling there soon, you can get a carton of If I had a Million Flavours, the new Barenaked Ladies-themed ice cream from Ben & Jerry's. As you can guess from the spelling of the word "flavours," it's Canada-only, and as you can guess from the "million" part, it's chock full of various chunks of chocolate, toffee, peanut butter, almonds, and other stuff. If anybody wants to ship me a carton in dry ice, e-mail me for the mailing address.

In other Barenaked Ladies news, the now-four-piece just began recording a rock album, says the Canadian Press.

Cover of the day... Steven Page does Radiohead

Somewhere in the numerous posts around the web about Steven Page parting ways with Barenaked Ladies was this link. Click on it, and you can listen to a broadcast of Page performing covers of his favorite songs with a classical ensemble live on CBC Radio 2 last summer. I highly recommend Track 12, "Paranoid Android."

Yes, the dude from Barenaked Ladies doing a chamber-music cover of a Radiohead song. It's just as awesome as that sentence makes it sound.

Breaking... Page leaves Barenaked Ladies

The chubby dude who sings better than the rapping dude in Barenaked Ladies is out of the band. Whether or not this has to do with his cocaine bust last year remains to be seen. Also, he's working on a solo album. The remaining members of the band plan to go into the studio in April.

This really isn't helping the Barenaked Ladies' good-time, happy-go-lucky Canadian image. Back in December, they were supposedly working on a boxed set. It will now apparently serve as the epitaph for the chubby-guy singing / skinny-guy scatting Barenaked Ladies.

Other Barenaked Lady singer in plane crash shocker

Seriously, the Barenaked Ladies may be cursed. After singer Steven Page was busted for cocaine this summer, other singer / occasional rapper Ed Robertson's plane crashed near Bancroft, Ontario this week. Thankfully, he is OK.

Here's "Alternative Girlfriend:"


Nice Fu Manchu on Page!

Barenaked Ladies singer busted for drugs

Say it ain't so, singing-not-rapping guy from the Barenaked Ladies!

Steven Page's coke and pot bust in northern New York earlier this week may not bode well for the band's new kiddie music turn.

Barenaked Ladies go kiddie

Those of you Tied to the '90s readers who have little ones now, and really liked quirky, literate power-pop back in the day can rejoice: Barenaked Ladies and They Might Be Giants are doing a kiddie-pop tour in conjunction with Disney.

Wait, really?

That's what this article says. Raven-Symone as the guest host? I'm there!

Barenaked Ladies recently released a children's album, entitled Snacktime, which debuted at a fairly respectable #61 on the charts back in May. And unbeknownest to me, They Might Be Giants have actually released three kids' albums: No!, Here come the ABCs, and Here Come the 123s.

Dates for the Disney Music Block Party Tour:
July 25-27 - Toms River HS, Toms River, NJ
July 29-30 - Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, MD
August 1-3 - Fairmount Park, Philadelphia
August 5-6 - Rentschler Field, East Hartford, CT
August 8-10 - Toyota Park, Chicago
August 12-13 - Columbus Crew Stadium, Columbus, OH
August 15-17 - Downsview Park, Toronto
August 19-20 - Meadow Brook Music Festival, Detroit
August 22-24 - Nassau Coliseum Parking Lot, Uniondale, NY

In other Barenaked Ladies news, they're doing a cruise in February. As we've seen, cruises are quite the income stream for many '90s acts now.