It's been a bad year for Barenaked Ladies lead singer Steven Page. First there was his little cocaine bust. Then there was the six months probation for the drug charge that followed. Then his bandmate Ed Robertson almost died in an August plane crash. And now Page has been axed from the Canadian pop rock band.A message on "the band's Web site":http://www.bnlmusic.com/ read: "By mutual agreement...
Everybody gets busted in upstate New York....TORONTO — Barenaked Ladies frontman Steven Page, known for his clean-cut image and goofy stage antics, has been charged in New York state with possession of cocaine.Police said Tuesday that the bespectacled singer, responsible for such pop hits as "If I Had a $1,000,000" and "Be My Yoko Ono," was charged last Friday with criminal possession of a con.
MUSIC NEWS - Steven Page of pop/rock band, Barenaked Ladies was able to make a deal yesterday with the Onondaga County District Attorney's Office, US to get the charges from his July 11, 2008 drug arrest (cocaine), reduced to misdemeanors. The deal covers Page, his girlfriend Christine Benedicto and her roommate Stephanie Ford, and has resulted in an agreement that will have Page acquit...
Steven Page, the lead singer for pop rock band Barenaked Ladies, has left the band to “pursue solo projects including theatrical opportunities while the band enters the studio in April 2009, and hits the road in the fall,” a statement on the band’s...
When the Barenaked Ladies split with Steven Page earlier this week, many of their fans worried about how the band would go forward without the combination of their two frontmen, Page and Ed Robertson. A representative of their label has spoken out...
MUSIC NEWS - Singer/songwriter/guitarist Steven Page has announced his departure from the band, Barenaked Ladies. The development arrives four months after US drug charges against Mr Page, 38 were dropped. Page's arrest came after the band, known for its wholesome image and humorish lyrics, released an album of children's songs entitled "Snacktime" (oops, bad timing). As a resul
From arstechnica.comWhile retailers like Amazon and Wal-Mart are making slow and steady progress into the realm of DRM-free music sales and the MPAA has its sights set on filtering the web, the Songwriters Association of Canada (SAC) has proposed an entirely different plan for settling the war between consumers, pirates and big media studios. Based on the observation that the thriving P2P marke...