We now have 18 tracks mixed by Bob Clearmountain!  We finished tracking last Friday, and Bob was hot on our heels with the mixes. He was already mixing tracks we'd finished earlier, while we forged ahead to finish the rest. He would have passed us for sure if we hadn't had some shipping delays getting him the raw materials. Bob really brought the songs to life. We knew he would.  I am so frickin excited about these new songs... well, it's ridiculous.  I can not wait to get them out to the world.  In fact I may not.  I may just post them all in a euphoric haze.

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Holy Crap - that's finally it! After 19 days of work shopping and arranging and 37 days of recording, we're finished the heavy lifting on this, the 12th Studio Album from Barenaked Ladies. It's been both challenging and incredibly rewarding over the past three and a half months. We've undertaken our first recording as a 4pc, changed up our management, and we even got out to play a bunch of rock shows for y'all.

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Hey Y'all,

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 Who says Keyboardists can't dance?  Kev has found the way.  There is no stopping him.  Believe or not, he's walking on air.  

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 We're on a tour bus somewhere outside of Minneapolis, en route to Cadott, WI.  We've been listening to possible single edits for "You Run Away", and "Graffiti Love".  Jim, and I have been doing them in Garageband.  It's a fierce competition.  Jim destroyed me with his "You Run Away" edit, but I will best him in the "Graffiti Love" duel.  It is an unspoken competition, but a competition nonetheless.  DAMN YOU Creeggan!!!!  You haven't seen the last of me!!!!

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 It's a cloudy afternoon here in Toronto, and we're still plugging away on... as yet untitled.  That's not what it's called though.  We just did some killer clapping on "Golden Boy".  Any day you invoke the Bay City Rollers is a good day.  I'm setting up to play some guitar on "The Love We're In".  That song is struggling to find itself.  I think we're on the right track now.  I've tried several approaches to the vocal... I think what we ended up with is good, but it's a lot more fragile than I'm used to hearing my vocal.

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 When I first joined Barenaked Ladies in 1990, we had a residency at a Toronto Club called Ultrasound Showbar. It's long gone, but we remember it here.

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One of the hardest parts of recording for the drummer is the over-dub process.  All the drums are done and, aside from the occasional tambourine or shaker, there's not much else to do.  Luckily, two factors contributed to me having more to do this time around. First of all, I get to sing a little more these days and I'm loving it! Secondly, JIM BOUGHT A BIG GREEN EGG so I became the session Chef! It was great to cook for my boys while we polished up the tunes.  Maybe I should do it on the road??

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 Hi there ladies fans...

How are your summers going?  i am in Los Angeles, sitting by the pool at the hotel, listening to some slow surf music,

which David Lynch wrote the lyrics for..  i found this cd at Amoeba records today..man i love going there .

I played here last night with the Thinbuckle trio. We played at a little club called the Mint.  thanks to everyone who came out to 

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 It's a day later, and I'm still enjoying the after Taste Of Chicago.  Your city is amazing, and I want my town of Toronto to follow your lead.  The way Chicago has reinvigorated its waterfront is truly inspiring.  I even saw palm trees lining a beach outside my hotel window.  I'm not sure how Chicago pulled this off, but I'm all ears.  The free Classical music concerts in Millennium Park has made chamber music fun again.  Pizza, and Paganini in the park, what else could one ask for? 

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