Select your preferred way to display the comments and click "Save settings" to activate your changes. Yes, Ron Paul and guys like Rick Perry who want troops back in Iraq. Assuming troops are in Iraq, negating they would be returning there, Ron Paul wants

An upcoming Rush album dubbed "Clockwork Angels" is being transformed into a sci-fi/steampunk novel by none other than Kevin J. Anderson. "I'm writing the novelization of Rush's forthcoming album Clockwork Angels, their first new CD in five years. Imagin

Our weary CR chronicler takes time out to reveal to the rest of the rock world, Canada's best kept secret. So...I’m digging around one day in my bag of Canadian rock. Ok, I don’t really have a bag with genre/region specific musical contents. For that mat

Select your preferred way to display the comments and click "Save settings" to activate your changes. I hope everyone realizes that this is a smaller version of the effect we (as the American nation) have on other countries. Young, enthused, loud, virile

GEDDY LEE Can’t hear you over the sound of how awesome he is. -Geddy Lee This lol celeb picture was posted on Saturday, February 4th, 2012 at 10:00 am. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: Please log in to WordPress.com to post a commen

Jeff is most recently known for his book, 'Mean Deviation: Four Decades of Progressive Heavy Metal,' and with this column he expounds upon a variety of ideas and topics related to Mean Deviation and, in true deviant spirit, occasionally veers off that pa

And the meek shall inherit the Earth… Today is 2-1-12, or 2112… and I couldn’t let this day go by without mentioning this date day, a special one for us Rush fans. In honor of today’s date, be sure to crank up Rush’s awesome, amazing, fantastic album 211

Other bands you like, stuff you do. What you think, how you feel. Love, life and everything else, post here! I went and had lunch last sunday with the winning tickets btw..was a very nice lebanese restaurant, on the mountains, we were 5 person

This Week In The 'Drome: Poile's choice, Vandy's identity, Storm Troopers at Lipscomb, and physics (in Latin!) Opening Face-Off Isaac Newton vs. Geddy Lee: Two great philosophers who had two different outlooks on decision making. Newton's First Law of Mo

WENN Rush's longtime photographer Andrew Macnaughtan has died after suffering a heart attack in Los Angeles.The snapper was with the Canadian rockers when he died. A statement from the band reads, "We're deeply shocked and heartbroken to learn of the sud

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Dave Bidini keeps his record collection alphabetized. Draw the Line by Aerosmith begins in his kitchen and One Size Fits All by Frank Zappa ends beside his piano, in the living room. Bidini has pretty much devoted his life to music, both writing about it

Get ready to be schooled, asere. It’s time for a Cuban music lesson! Learn to tell your cha cha cha from your mambo without leaving your couch. Put on your dancing shoes, guayaberas, park your 57 Chevy, light up that Habano, and pay attention. Quick, wha

The year 2012 will bring Rush fans something they haven’t seen in about five years: A brand-new studio album. This one’s been in the oven for a while having been started back in 2009, but it looks like it’s almost done since the group is reportedly done

Following Rush's "retirement" in 1997 due the death of drummer Neil Peart's daughter and wife, Geddy Lee found himself with way too much time on his hands. Rather than work with his friend (and Rush guitarist Alex Liefson), Lee decided that the now was

John Bonham and John Paul Jones have been named as the greatest ever rock rhythm section. In a Gibson.com article he Led Zeppelin duo pipped Neil Peart and Geddy Lee and Chad Smith and Flea into second and third places respectively. Check out the entire

This week in rock history, Rush became Canada's ambassadors of rock, the Sex Pistols sued Malcolm McLaren, the Pixies split, Victoria Beckham was nearly kidnapped and Gary Glitter left prison after serving a sentence for child pornography. January 8, 197

Minitaur is a compact analog bass synthesizer that features a classic “one knob per function” layout. It is the first instrument in the Taurus family that does not have foot pedals. Here’s what Moog has to say about the Minitaur: “The Minitaur has all th

Moog Music visited Geddy Lee in his Toronto studio to get his take on the Taurus pedals, old and new. This is the first of a 3-part series relaying touching stories and musical innovations from the start of Rush’s reigning fame to now. In this installmen