Prog Fetish

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 [...]

Rush has issued the following Press Release:
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 [...]

Our next holiday contest comes to us from Rush appreciation website Cygnus-X1.net. One lucky winner will receive the following:

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. [...]

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 [...]

Bob Cesca, a featured blogger over at the Huffington Post, has posted a Thanking The Shit Out Of Stuff article, and Rush’s Snakes & Arrows is mentioned:

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 [...]

RushIsABand.com has reported that Rush will schedule about two weeks of shows in South America (including Brazil, Argentina, Peru, and Chile) sometime in May 2008. There are no locations or dates yet confirmed. Rush’s only previous South American appearance was back in 2002 when they played in Rio de Janeiro.
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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.