Disc 1
1. Limelight
2. Digital Man
3. Entre Nous
4. Mission
5. Freewill
6. Monkey Business
7. Larger Bowl
8. Secret Touch
9. Circumstances
10. Between the Wheels
11. Dreamline
12. Far Cry
13. Workin’ Them Angels
14. Armor and Sword

Disc 2
1. Spindrift
2. The Way the Wind Blows
3. Subdivisions
4. Natural Science
5. Witch Hunt
6. Malignant Narcissism – Drum Solo
7. Hope
8. Distant Early Warning
9. The Spirit of Radio
10. Tom Sawyer
11. Encore
12. One Little Victory
13. A Passage to Bangkok
14. YYZ

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Apr. 11 – San Juan, PR – Coliseo de Puerto Rico
Apr. 13 – Ft Lauderdale, FL – Bank Atlantic Center
Apr. 15 – Orlando, FL – Amway Center
Apr. 17 – Jacksonville, FL – Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena
Apr. 19 – New Orleans, LA – Arena
Apr. 20 – Houston, TX – Woodlands Pavilion
Apr. 23 – Austin, TX – Frank Erwin Center
Apr. 25 – Dallas, TX – The Music Center at Fair Park
Apr. 26 – Oklahoma City, OK – Ford Center
Apr. 29 – Albuquerque, NM – Journal Pavilion
May 01 – Phoenix, AZ – Cricket Pavilion
May 03 – Reno, NV – Reno Events Center
May 04 – Concord, CA – Sleep Train Pavilion
May 06 – Los Angeles, CA – Nokia Theatre
May 10 – Las Vegas, NV – Mandalay Bay Events Center
May 11 – Irvine, CA – Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
May 20 – Moline, IL – iWireless Center
May 22 – St Paul, MN – Xcel Energy Center
May 24 – Winnipeg, MB – MTS Center
May 25 – Regina, SK – Brandt Center
May 27 – Edmonton AB – Rexall Place
May 29 – Vancouver, BC – GM Place
May 31 – Seattle, WA – The Gorge Amphitheatre
Jun. 01 – Portland, OR – Clark County Amphitheatre
Jun. 03 – Boise, ID – Idaho Center
Jun. 05 – Denver, CO – Red Rocks
Jun. 07 – Kansas City, MO – Starlight Theatre
Jun. 09 – Chicago, IL – United Center
Jun. 10 – Detroit, MI – Joe Louis Arena
Jun. 12 – Montreal, QC – Bell Center
Jun. 14 – Philadelphia, PA – Wachovia Center
Jun. 15 – Boston, MA – Tweeter Center
Jun. 25 – Indianapolis, IN – Verizon Amphitheatre
Jun. 27 – Milwaukee, WI – Summerfest
Jun. 28 – St Louis, MO – Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
Jun. 30 – Cincinnati, OH – Riverbend Music Center
Jul. 02 – Pittsburgh, PA – Post Gazette Amphitheatre
Jul. 04 – Atlantic City, NJ – Marc Etess Arena
Jul. 05 – Saratoga, NY – SPAC
Jul. 07 – Uncasville, CT – Mohegan Sun
Jul. 09 – Toronto, ON – The Molson Amphitheatre
Jul. 11 – Manchester, MA – Verizon Arena
Jul. 12 – Holmdel, NJ – PNC Bank Arts Center
Jul. 14 – Wantagh, NY – Jones Beach
Jul. 17 – Hershey, PA – Hershey Stadium
Jul. 19 – Washington, DC – Nissan Pavilion
Jul. 20 – Charlotte, NC – Amphitheatre
Jul. 22 – Atlanta, GA – Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre at Encore Park

Due to popular demand, the Rush Backstage Club is once again offering the Rush Bobblehead Dolls, made famous back on the R30 tour intermission videos. The price is $59.99. Get yours here.

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Learn more at the official Rock Band website.

Tiles has posted a track, Sacred and Mundane, from their forthcoming album on their website. You’ll need, unfortunately, some kind of plugin to hear the tune. Anyway, most of the guitar work heard on the track (electric and acoustic) are courtesy of Alex Lifeson. Besides Lifeson, the album has other Rush associations – it was produced by longtime Rush producer Terry Brown and Hugh Syme did the cover.

RUSH EXTEND WORLD TOUR INTO 2008

TORONTO, ON – December 12, 2007:

After a hugely successful 2007 run, Rush are pleased to announce they will extend their Snakes & Arrows World Tour into 2008. The band will begin rehearsals in March to revamp the set list before kicking off the tour with their first ever appearance in San Juan, Puerto Rico in April.

2008 will see Rush tour in over 40 cities throughout the United States and Canada making stops in many where they haven’t performed in well over a decade including: Orlando, Oklahoma City, New Orleans, Austin, Jacksonville and Winnipeg to name a few. Along the way, Rush will play new venues in Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia and Seattle and will revisit some familiar ones in Boston, Washington and Charlotte amongst others. Rush fans can look forward to a complete tour announcement in mid January. As details develop more information will be made available at www.rush.com and www.livenation.com.

Due to the overwhelming response of their fans in North America, the “Snakes & Arrows” tour has been Rush’s highest grossing tour ever and the best attended in many years. Snakes & Arrows (Anthem/Atlantic Records) was recorded in the fall of 2006 with Grammy Award-winner Nick Raskulinecz (Foo Fighters, Velvet Revolver) with Rush co-producing. Their first album of original material in nearly five years, Snakes & Arrows debuted at #3 on the Billboard Top 200. In addition, the track “Malignant Narcissism” has been nominated for a Grammy Award in the category Best Rock Instrumental Performance.

Since releasing its self-titled debut album in 1974, Rush has been universally regarded as one of the most inventive and exciting groups in rock, famed for virtuoso musicianship, epic soundscapes, and dramatic lyricism. The band’s extraordinary body of work – which includes such acclaimed works as 1976’s “2112,” 1981’s “MOVING PICTURES,” 1996’s “TEST FOR ECHO,” and 2002’s “VAPOR TRAILS” – has achieved worldwide sales exceeding 35 million units.

Fans will experience the technical virtuosity and hard-rocking compositions they have come to expect from Rush members, Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, and Neil Peart.

The Rush tour in North America is produced by Live Nation Global Touring and SRO/Anthem.

For complete tour & ticket information, fan club memberships and more, visit: www.rush.com.

• Snakes & Arrows CD
• Snakes & Arrows Special-Edition MVI
• The Snakes & Arrows Tour Book
• A deck of Rush Playing Cards
• A Snakes & Arrows Key Chain
• The Tribute CD Lush
• A custom-made, one-of-a-kind Cygnus-X1.Net t-shirt

The winner will be chosen by December 17th. Visit this link to enter.

Neil Peart has posted more tales (and photos) from his recent travels on Rush’s European tour. Read it all here.

Of course it’s just my opinion, but to me, my life is not dedicated to the place, but to the journey, and to the hour of arriving. All the while knowing that, all too soon, there will come the hour of departing.

The music industry is on life support. But Rush continues to record original, thought-provoking music without the help of radio, Rolling Stone magazine or the mainstream music press (say nothing of the exclusionary R&R Hall of Fame). Their new album, “Snakes & Arrows,” guided by Foo Fighters producer Nick Raskulinecz, is energetic, heavy, poignant and inspired. I’ve listened to the lead track, “Far Cry,” maybe a thousand times this year and I’m still not sick of it.

Thanks to RushIsABand.com

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Alex Lifeson’s eBay auctioned painting, to support The Kidney Foundation of Canada, went for $5,700. Lifeson, along with other Canadian celebrities, created paintings to help bring attention to the crisis surrounding kidney disease and kidney-related illness, not only in Canada, but around the globe.