Hey there! Welcome to the first edition of the new Barenaked Ladies fan newsletter, Barenaked News! Better hold onto this one – it might be a collectible one day! So January’s already over, I can no longer remember my New Year’s resolution – Did I even make one? – but at least it’s finally warming up. It’s time to look forward to Spring, the albums it will hopefully bring and put ‘Summertime’ on loop to make it

through these final winter days. - Mil

NEWS

 BNL are in the studio as we type! New clips and photos will be coming over the next few weeks and we’ve had our first teaser of a new song, ‘Navigate’, courtesy of Tyler.  New albums are on the way from BNL + The Persuasions and The Cousins. Check ‘Upcoming’ for more details.  New dates and support from Alan Doyle and Mike Evin have been announced for the US Spring tour! Full details and dates below and on page 3.

Upcoming

Spring 2017 Tour BNL + The Persuasions

The Ladies are hitting the States come Last October BNL hit the studio with BApril 21st for a full month of touring! The Persuasions, a Brooklyn-based a cappella group, to record some songs. Following that is a Canadian summer tour to celebrate ’s 150th anniversary, which Tyler said in an appearance on The fruits are likely to appear soon, The Social last Oct would feature the new music currently being prepared. but in the meantime remind yourself what an awesome collaboration this For a full list of dates, see page 3 or their official website. is by listening to ‘Sound of Your Tunespeak are also giving you the chance to win two tickets and signed photo for Voice’ from LSOE last year. select dates: Enter here

The Cousins’ New Album, Rattlesnake Love, out Spring 2017

Kevin and real-life cousin Harland Williams, together as The Cousins, are set to release their second album next month after a 13 year hiatus, this Spring. The new album will be called RattlesnakeN Love and also feature a song of the same name.

Follow The Cousins on Twitter to keep up-to-date with news until release: @TheCousinsBand8

Then check out 4 songs from their previous album, The Love Song Years, to get excited while you wait. L Features

BNL Cover

The Ladies took part in a 30th anniversary celebration of The Tragically Hip, often known as ‘Canada’s Band’, on New Year’s Day. They appeared on the Strombo Show alongside many other big names and bands, contributing two songs and a brief discussion of what The Tragically Hip means to them.

♯ Listen to the entire thing here: HIP 30, A Celebration of Canada’s Band, The Tragically Hip

BNL’s part begins at 1:47:36 with a short chat, followed by a cover of ‘Chancellor’ lead by Kevin before bridging seamlessly into ‘’ with Ed.

♮ Steve also featured in the show. His cover of ‘Honey Please’ appears at 2:46:40 B♭ Kevin is an old friend of , lead singer of The Tragically Hip, and contributed to Downie’s solo album Coke Machine Glow that the song ‘Chancellor’ is from. More recently Kevin has been a part of Downie’s Project to help survivors of Canada’s residential schools and their families.

Solo News

Ed Kevin

♪ Ed’s been hard at work writing songs, in-between plenty of ♪ Kevin’s mostly been games of pinball naturally. hanging with cousin Harl ready for the release of Rattlesnake Love. Jim NSee page 1 for details. ♪ Jim has been working with Mike Evin lately on new music of Evin’s. Tyler Evin is a long-time friend Tyler recently had a short chat with audioBoom of the band, particularly ♪ about girls, The Yellow Tape and breasts – the Creeggans, has been on Ships & Dip cruises and is All in honour of breast cancer research charity supporting the band twice this Spring. Susan G. Komen of course! Find out more about Evin on his website. L Upcoming Dates Fun and Games

To get tickets visit BNL’s official website What BNL-related word or phrase is this an anagram of: ♫ Mar 01 Fallsview Casino - Niagara Falls, Canada ♫ HOT YET GORY VINE ♫ Mar 02 Fallsview Casino - Niagara Falls, VENEER Canada Answer next issue! ♫ Mar 03 Motor City Casino (w/ Mike Evin) - Detroit, MI ♫ Mar 04 Lawrenceburg Event Center - Lawrenceburg, IN Who Knew? ♫ Mar 10 Fontainebleau - Miami Beach, FL BNL Fun Fact: Stephen ♫ Apr 21 The Egg - Albany, NY Hawking once quoted the ♫ Apr 22 Valley Forge Casino - King Of first stanza of ‘The Big Prussia, PA Bang Theory Theme’ ♫ Apr 25 The Paramount - Huntington, NY ♫ Apr 27 Ridgefield Playhouse - Ridgefield, CT (Source – 17:33) ♫ Apr 28 Bergen Performing Arts Center - Englewood, NJ ♫ Apr 29 Flynn Theater (w/Alan Doyle) - Everything Old Is Burlington, VT ♫ Apr 30 State Theatre (w/Alan Doyle) - New Again Ithaca, NY We’re throwing it way back to ♫ May 02 Harvester Center - Rocky Mount, VA 1992 for this first issue with ‘On ♫ May 04 Hard Rock Casino - Catoosa, OK Gordon Pond’, a Much Music ♫ May 05 Horseshoe Casino - Robinsonville, B special presentation exploring MS the very earliest years of the ♫ May 10 Hoyt Sherman Place (w/ Mike Evin) band and seeking an answer to - Des Moines, IA the ultimate question: ♫ May 12 Mountain Grand - Deadwood, SD Who is Gordon? ♫ May 13 Pikes Peak Center - Colorado Springs, CO ♫ May 15 Peabody Opera House - St Louis, MO ♫ May 16 Genesee Theatre - Waukegan, IL ♫ May 27 Tampa Bay Margarita Festival 2017 BNL rocked the ribbon on the th - Tampa, FL 13 of January in support of ♫ Jun 24 Greeley Stampede - Greeley, CO the Susan G. Komen organisation for breast cancer ♫ Jul 07-09 Mariposa Folk Festival - research and services. Mariposa, Canada Check out the full ‘Rock the Ribbon II’ concert pics gallery! Runtime: 60mins ♫ Jul 24 EAA AirVenture - Oshkosh, WI N(Credit: Phoenix Photography) That’s it for this first issue! Send feedback, feature suggestions and contributions to [email protected] Photos, videos, fanart, reviews, fanfiction – If it’s got something to do with BNL, we want to see it!

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