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Reunited after 16 years, brothers-in-rock Noel and Liam Gallagher made their first appearance in their reunion tour on July 4 in Cardiff, WalesNEED TO KNOWOasis, featuring bickering brothers Noel and ...
Whereas most people take a few years to hone their sound down, Rush felt the musical version of Pandora's box opened after a ...
Ready to strut your stuff on the ultimate stage of classic rock trivia? Well, grab your air guitar and let those locks flow ...
Rush doesn’t have a bad album — they excel in every genre they attempt, and Peart’s lyrics are poetry that could stand even without the music. If you want to get into the band’s discography, the new ...
There aren’t many known stories behind this Rush album, but Neil Peart did describe the background of “Xanadu” specifically. “Let’s call that our experimental phase,” said Peart.
If Rush has a cult following, within that cult following, there’s a following for Hemispheres. I’m not sure we’re up for that one.” It’s also worth mentioning that had the band decided to play this ...
Their sacrifices, however, resulted in an album that elevated Rush to a new artistic plane. The opening track, "Cygnus X-1, Book II: Hemispheres," is an 18-minute epic tackling existential themes ...
Canada’s greatest power trio was assembled slowly, one piece at a time. Toronto guitarist Alex Lifeson co-founded Rush as a teenager in 1968, and a few months later, invited a childhood friend ...
At the end of the ’70s, Rush had arrived at a crossroads. The masters of progressive heavy rock felt trapped in a world of their own making after a series of fantastically overblown albums – ...
Solidly helmed by original drummer John Rutsey on his only album with the band, Rush ’s unreconstructed hard-rock has the horn (Need Some Love; In The Mood), opens with Finding My Way’s giant-slaying ...
Hemispheres, Rush’s sixth studio album, was originally released in October 1978, and it built upon the adventurous sonic template the band established on its acclaimed 1977 effort, A Farewell To ...
But the last Rush album of the ’70s was also the last of its kind. After Hemispheres, the Canadian trio - Geddy, guitarist Alex Lifeson and drummer Neil Peart - took a radical new direction. With the ...