A Rush album of covers? Okay, I didn’t buy this when it came out, because I’d already seen all of the car commercials that featured these songs. It’s always amazing how old hard rock goes from the AOR stations to the brokerage commercials now.  I mean, I love Led Zeppelin and The Who, [...]

If you’re a Rush fan, you’ve probably already heard, but I’ll repeat it anyway: the Paul Rudd/Jason Segel movie I Love You, Man is pretty damn funny. It also features a pretty prominent plot element concerning the band Rush, along with a performance of the song “Limelight” by the band.
The movie is a buddy [...]

Remember back in the day when you had to search for a year and a half to find even the tiniest blurb about Rush in the news? Looks like that changed - there have been a million interviews with both Geddy and Alex all over

Geddy in Entertainment Weekly - I posted a link to [...]

The March 20, 2009 Entertainment Weekly has a one-page article about Geddy Lee, the new Rush collection Retrospectives III, and the band’s appearance in the new movie I Love You, Man., Check out a scan of the article here. thanks to Rushisaband.com. 
I never knew Geddy is a wine fanatic, but I did know he [...]

Here’s something I never saw before: original LP versions of Rush’s Fly By Night album had the lyrics on the inner LP sleeve.  The cool part - these were copies of hand-written lyric sheets by Neil Peart!
Andrew Olson was kind enough to scan copies of his album lyrics, and they are here.  Neil has pretty [...]

A documentary about Rush’s massive road show for Snakes and Arrows and the crew that kept it running has showed up on YouTube. It’s a five-hour documentary, and the first hour is posted in ten-minute chunks. If you’ve ever wondered the amount of work it takes to get a band like Rush into [...]

Ugh. For Rush’s sophomore effort on Atlantic records, they slid further into mediocrity with more standard hard rock numbers, an unusually bright and bland production, and a general lack of noteworthiness that got them an album that somehow peaked at #3 on the Billboard 200, but failed to do anything interesting musically.

On the coattails of the wildly successful 2112, Rush decided to put out a quad-side, triple-gatefold live LP, named with a Shakespeare reference, recorded in their home town. This began a cycle where the band would release four studio albums, then bookend the era with a double live album. This time around, the [...]

I’m a sucker for “unofficial releases” that are nothing more than a journo’s taped interview with a band, later set to CD-R boot. And here’s a classic example of this non-canon release: a half-hour chat with Alex Lifeson. Although the internets give this a release date of 1992, the conversation dates it at [...]

Here’s a great little interview with Geddy Lee circa the Signals era, talking about how rough it was back in the early days.