No further reunion followed. Page later said that he had chosen “One Week” and “If I Had $1000000” for the ceremony because the songs represented his musical partnership with Robertson, which he regarded as central to the band’s identity during his tenure. In 2026, Page expressed doubt that another reunion…
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During the tour, Lowery posted on social media that the September 20 performance at the 9:30 Club would likely be the final performance of the band, and referred to the difficulties of operating as a band with members in three different countries and five different time zones.
They embarked on a brief tour in 2025, with founding guitarist/drummer Chris Molla sitting in on accordion. These shows were billed as including “all original members”, presumably referring to Molla’s presence, although drummer Anthony Guess did not participate.
The band released In Flight in September 2023. Its songs address aging, mortality and maintaining personal relationships, while retaining the group’s vocal harmonies and mixture of acoustic and electric arrangements. An acoustic EP drawn from the album, In Flight – Carry On , followed in 2025. The band released the…
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Recording sessions for Detour de Force began in early 2020 but were interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic . The band completed the album later that year, while its planned Last Summer on Earth tour was postponed until 2022. Released in July 2021, Detour de Force received mixed reviews; Exclaim! viewed…
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Cicierega released Spirit Phone as Lemon Demon’s seventh studio album on February 29, 2016. The album was the No. 1 best-selling album on Bandcamp for the first week of its release. On July 10, 2018, it was announced that copies of the album on CD, cassette, and vinyl would be…
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The band continued touring through 2020, and then did not play for several years thereafter.
On March 25, 2018, Barenaked Ladies was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame at the Juno Awards in Vancouver. Page, who was included in the induction, performed with the group for the first time since 2009; Andy Creeggan also joined the performance but was not inducted.
Cicierega uploaded the song “Funkytown” to his Patreon page in 2017, later contributing it to the 2020 charity compilation album Needlejustice , which benefits the NAACP Legal Defense Fund . It would later be released as an official single alongside “One Weird Tip” on January 21, 2023.
Silverball followed in 2015. A concert from that album’s tour was issued as BNL Rocks Red Rocks in 2016. The band then recorded new arrangements of its songs with the vocal group The Persuasions for Ladies and Gentlemen: Barenaked Ladies and The Persuasions (2017). Its twelfth album of original material,…
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