Mobile Fidelity will release Rush’s Permanent Waves on 180 gram vinyl. The numbered, limited edition is scheduled for release November 15th. Preorder yours here.

Now available for preorder, on November 6th Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs is releasing the Permanent Waves Ultradisc IIâ„¢ 24 KT Gold CD. Mobile Fidelity’s Limited Edition 24k Gold Audiophile CDs are some of the most valuable collector’s items within the Audiophile market, pressed directly from the original studio master session tapes and engineered to produce the finest CD sound quality available. This is the fourth Rush album to be released in the Ultradisc IIâ„¢ line; previous releases include 2112 (1993), Moving Pictures (1992), and Signals (1994), all of which are now out of print; the Permanent Waves Ultradisc IIâ„¢ is sure to be highly coveted by Rush Audiophiles.

RushIsABand.com reports that there is indeed an official Rush MySpace page:

Well it looks like those sneaky guys at Rush.com have had the MySpace page up for some time now (since May it looks like) but never really advertised it; it completely fell under my radar at least. It’s even linked over at Rush.com (just go to the Mailing List section). You can visit the site at www.myspace.com/officialrush.

Rush’s Madison Square Garden gig from this past Monday night is reviewed in the NYTimes online edition:

In two hours of music Rush touched on the grandiosity of Genesis, on garage psychedelia and even, for a few moments in “Digital Man,” the reggae backbeat of the Police. Rush improves as its music grows more elaborate. The trio plays with unrelenting muscle, pounding out the intricacies of its songs, but rarely letting them breathe. Its shorter tunes can get stuck in a continuous churn, but multipart extravaganzas like “Natural Science” hurtled through their contrasts.

Michael Falco for The New York Times

RushIsABand.com announces new videos of Rush’s road crew in the Multimedia section of their official website. They feature Geddy’s bass tech, Russ, and also Chef Bruce Frenchie French.

September is Rush Month on UK digital radio station Planet Rock. As such, they are broadcasting four interviews with the band that were recorded in San Francisco earlier this year. The first three interviews feature one member of the band and the fourth combines moments from all three. Go here to listen – click on “Listen Live”.

Rush’s Working Man is number 21 on Rolling Stone’s list of the top 25 songs about work. They must be running out of lists… Anyway, numero uno is Lennon’s Working Class Hero. View the full list at here.

RushIsABand.com has posted “another batch of Rush audio oddities”. The bootleg clips include:

Rush screwing up in concert playing Tom Sawyer, Time Stand Still , Subdivisions, and Geddy’s misspoken lyrics from one song on the current tour (spoiler alert). There’s also a live rendition of Auld Lang Syne from a New Year’s Eve show; Alex Lifeson’s babbling intro rant to Prime Mover; Geddy’s vocals from How It Is isolated; and a hidden synth in Animate.