Barenaked Ladies

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20.01.2012 11:07
Bruce Springsteen announced release date for new album
Bruce Springsteen revealed some details concerning his next album. "It's a rock record that combines elements of both classic sound and Seeger Sessions experience, with new textures and styles", claimed he.

19.01.2012 16:49
Bruce Springsteen to collaborate with Tom Morello
Bruce Springsteen's manager Jon Landau revealed that musician's next studio effort will be very different from his two previous albums. "It was an experimental effort with a new producer", claimed he.

Biography

In spite of the fact that the peak of the Barenaked Ladies fame came to the end of 90's, this collective with indie roots was formed in 1988 in the suburbs of Toronto, Canada. Initially, the band was founded by a duo, consisting of Ed Robertson and Steven Page, who went to the same school. They made friends when ran into each other in a café after the gig by Peter Gabriel and found out that they had much in common in musical tastes. However, the organized soon group Barenaked Ladies was not a success, until Robertson and Page started performing live. In order to amuse the public they read improvised rap monologues between the covers and joked. Soon the artists began to write songs themselves. The band was added by friends of Page and Robertson - drummer Andy Creeggan and his brother, bassist Jim Creeggan - in this lineup Barenaked Ladies self-produced the album called Barenaked Lunch, also known as The Pink Tape(1990). In half a year after their first indie release, the artists had to look for a substitute for Andy Creeggan, who went to Ecuador on the student exchange program - and Tyler Stewart entered the band. Lately he became the full-right member of Barenaked Ladies.

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