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