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Watch Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson appear onstage together at Gordon Lightfoot tribute show in Toronto

The pair returned to the stage at Massey Hall, where Rush's live album All The World's A Stage live was recorded

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"Without a doubt, the best experience I've had making an album, ever": How Rush made Snakes & Arrows and learned to love recording again

Neil Peart, Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson on the making of 2007's Snakes & Ladders album

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"Spandau Ballet, Visage, Ultravox… there's some good music going down": In 1981, Rush's Geddy Lee was ready to blow the boundaries of progressive rock wide open

From Led Zeppelin copyists to sword and sorcery maestros to purveyors of über-prog, Rush have always pushed the envelope

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“There were no egos: It was just about the music. There was an incredible flow… a magical, organic experience”: How supergroup Flying Colors made their debut album in just 9 days

When Neal Morse, Mike Portnoy, Steve Morse, Dave LaRue and Casey McPherson went to work, they hoped they were creating something that would last. As it turned out, they were

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"My success with women increased when I had Geddy Lee hair": The 10 best Rush songs ever, according to the Trailer Park Boys

Bubbles, Ricky and Julian a.k.a. Canada's second-best trio the Trailer Park Boys, pick their 10 favourite Rush songs

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"They couldn't have been nicer, and it really lifted us at a moment when we could have used the lifting": Geddy Lee reveals how Robert Plant and Jimmy Page helped Rush overcome grief and loss

Led Zeppelin were a musical inspiration for Rush, but as Geddy Lee explains, Robert Plant and Jimmy Page also proved themselves to be decent human beings at a "dark, sad time"

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Watch Mike Portnoy join Umphrey's McGee onstage in Chicago for covers of Spinal Tap's Big Bottom and Rush's YYZ

Dream Theater man Mike Portnoy contributed the traditional "lead bass" part to Big Bottom before retreating to the kit to tackle Neil Peart's iconic drum part on YYZ

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“I didn’t want to have anything to do with the song. To me, it was like: ‘Are we turning into Depeche Mode?’”: Europe’s John Norum says he thought The Final Countdown was “dreadful” at first

It would go on to become the Swedish rockers’ biggest track but Norum took some persuading that all those synths would work with guitar

MusicRadar

Three “God-like guitarists” join forces and stadium-conquering rockers channel their inner spy: This week's essential guitar tracks

Must-listen-to tunes from Guns N' Roses, Architects, IDLES, The Libertines, Devon Ross, Ryujin and many more

Guitar World

Just days after launching his own amp brand with Mojotone, Alex Lifeson gets his teeth into the pedal market with his first stompbox – the LERXST By-Tor

The second announcement from the Rush guitarist and his collaborators at Mojotone aims to offer the Marshall-like tube tone of his $2.5k head in a $300 pedal

Guitar World

Geddy Lee says that Paul McCartney has tried to convince him and Alex Lifeson to tour again: “He was lecturing Al about how great it is... ‘You have to do it, man. You have to get back out there’”

It sounds like McCartney made a persuasive case but Lee says Lifeson might still need some more persuading before we can look forward to any form of Rush reunion tour

MusicRadar

"Someone said that I sounded like the damned howling in Hades": Geddy Lee on why Rush shunned their record label and management's wishes that they'd become the next Led Zeppelin or Bad Company

Rush "always agreed that the very idea of compromise was offensive" says Geddy Lee

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Troye Sivan cleans up at the Arias as artists get political with calls for ceasefire

Pop sensation wins best song and best solo star, while best album winner Genesis Owusu chants ‘ceasefire now’ in acceptance speech

The Guardian - AU

Troye Sivan teases Rush remix with PinkPantheress and Stray Kids’ Hyunjin

It lands ahead of the Australian pop singer’s third album Something To Give Each Other

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Broadcasting & Cable

Season of the ‘Critch’ Set to Start at The CW

Canadian comedy ‘Son of a Critch’ premieres on The CW, and creator Mark Critch explains the quirky show

Guitar World

Feast your eyes on Alex Lifeson’s stunning new Epiphone Les Paul signature, the Floyd Rose-equipped Custom Axcess

“It's stunning, it’s a really, really beautiful guitar,” says the Rush legend, but does it trump his previous Epiphone Les Paul Standard Axcess?

Daily Record

Youngest person to visit Titanic wreckage 'fell unconscious' during mission

Sebastian Harris, 13, said a lack of oxygen in the Mir II submersible caused him to fall asleep suddenly.

Daily Mirror

Former passenger insists safety was very important aboard Titanic sub that imploded

Aaron Newman has spoken out against critics of OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush saying that safety was always "an incredible priority" for the CEO and those involved in the deep-sea vessel's missions

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Crown Lands: the duo ushering prog’s illustrious past into a magisterial future

Canadian hopefuls Crown Lands on the "mathiness" of modern prog, world building, indigenous rights, and sounding a LOT like Rush

Guitar World

Alex Lifeson says he first chose an ES-335 over the Les Paul for this reason

In a new clip with Gibson TV, the Canadian guitar legend has been discussing days spent haunting guitar stores before Rush made it big

Sports Illustrated

Preview and Predictions for AEW’s ‘Double or Nothing’

Even with a lack of buzz around the PPV, the in-ring quality will be as good as ever.

Daily Record

Coronation Street's Andy Whyment pays sweet tribute to I'm A Celeb after being booted from camp with Toff

Two more celebrities have been axed from I'm a Celebrity after Georgia Toffolo and Andy Whyment took on Jordan Banjo and Myleene Klass in the Gold Rush challenge

Louder

Rush take centre stage with Signals on the cover of the new issue of Prog, on sale now!

Plus Jethro Tull, Hawkwind, Alan Parsons Project, Hipgnosis, Crown Pands, Exploring Birdsong and loads more...

Guitar World

Kiss's Tommy Thayer names 11 guitarists who shaped his sound

The Spaceman offers his pick of the greatest riff-masters, salutes the player who invented the power chord and reveals the guitarist his bandmates compare him to (and it's not Ace Frehley)

Sports Illustrated

A Long-Simmering Feud Takes Center Stage at ‘Wrestle Kingdom’

The seeds for ‘Wrestle Kingdom 17’ Night 2’s main event were planted at last year’s show when LIJ defeated Kongo.

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