Barenaked Ladies, Joel Plaskett Touring Together

The Barenaked Ladies are famous for a song called "If I Had $1,000,000." Joel Plaskett has a song called "Wishful Thinking." Coincidence? We think not.

Plaskett will open for the Barenaked Ladies on an upcoming Canadian tour that's slated to take place throughout April and on the first day of May. The Barenaked Ladies will be supporting their upcoming All In Good Time album, which is out March 23. Plaskett, of course, is supporting his Polaris Music Prize short-listed Three.

Tickets go on sale Jan. 26 to members of the Barenaked Ladies' new Ladies Room fan club and will be available to the public through Ticketmaster and Live Nation three days later. Every ticket comes with a download of All In Good Time that'll be available the day the album comes out, along with an exclusive, limited-edition bonus track.

The Barenaked Ladies will also play a free show at Toronto's Nathan Phillips Square on Feb. 20 as part of the 2010 Olympic Winter Games celebrations. There's a nice slap in the face to that infamous 1991 New Year's Eve concert controversy.

In the meantime, former Barenaked Ladies singer/guitarist Steven Page has revealed the track listing to his A Singer Must Die album that features Toronto's Art Of Time Ensemble.

The disc includes covers of songs by Rufus Wainwright, Elvis Costello, Leonard Cohen, Radiohead, The Magnetic Fields, The Weakerthans and The Mountain Goats, among others. It's out Feb. 16 through Pheromone Recordings.

You can see Joel Plaskett and the Barenaked Ladies here:

April 6 Victoria, BC @ Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre
April 8 Calgary, AB @ Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium
April 12 Saskatoon, SK @ Sis Buckwold Cnentre at TCU
April 13 Regina, SK @ Conexus Arts Centre
April 14 Edmonton, AB @ Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium
April 17 London, ON @ John Labatt Centre
April 20 Kingston, ON @ K-Rock Centre
April 24 Halifax, NS @ Metro Centre
April 28 Hamilton, ON @ Hamilton Place
April 30 Montreal, QC @ Metropolis
May 1 Oshawa, ON @ General Motors Centre

You can see Steven Page and the Art Of Time Ensemble here:

Feb. 24 Brantford, ON @ Sanderson Centre For The Performing Arts
Feb. 26 Oakville, ON @ Oakville Centre For The Performing Arts
Feb. 27 Markham, ON @ Markham Theatre For The Performing Arts
March 3 Kingston, ON @ Grand Theatre at Regina Rosen Auditorium
March 4 Toronto, ON @ Koerner Hall at Telus Centre
March 5 St. Catharines, ON @ Sean O'Sullivan Theatre at Brock University
March 6 Kitchener, ON @ Centre In The Square
March 7 North Bay, ON @ Capital Arts Centre
March 10 Brampton, ON @ The Rose Theatre
March 11 Belleville, ON @ The Empire Theatre
March 12 Barrie, ON @ Gryphon Theatre
March 13 Peterborough, ON @ Showplace Performance Centre

Here are the songs on A Singer Must Die (original performers are in parentheses):

"Lion's Teeth" (The Mountain Goats)
"I Want You" (Elvis Costello)
"Foolish Love" (Rufus Wainwright)
"Running Out Of Ink" (Barenaked Ladies)
"A Singer Must Die" (Leonard Cohen)
"The Taxi Ride" (Jane Sibbery)
"Tonight We Fly" (The Divine Comedy)
"Virtute The Cat Explains Her Departure" (The Weakerthans)
"For We Are The King Of The Boudoir" (The Magnetic Fields)
"Paranoid Android" (Radiohead)