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The Latest Breaking News from Alex Lifeson

“The drum parts are so iconic and… straight-faced. He was a stone-cold assassin!”: The first Neil Peart documentary trailer is out

Chad Smith, Copeland, Danny Carey and more pay tribute in No One’s Disciple

MusicRadar · Sep 3

“Coming back at this age, your fear is that you can’t do it anymore, and you’re going to be a compromised version of yourself”: Geddy Lee details the intense preparation behind Rush’s reunion

Lifeson and Lee also reveal what they consider to be the hardest song on their set list

Guitar World · Aug 31

"She's all that and a bag of chips." Onstage pranks prove Anika Nilles is unfazed by life as Rush drummer

Rush drummer Anika Nilles regularly pranks Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson during shows

Louder · Aug 30

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Mike Portnoy has filed his review of Rush's Fifty Something tour. "Was able to spend some time with the Queen before the show!"

Dream Theater's Mike Portnoy reports on Rush and Anika Nilles

Louder · Aug 25

Rush’s Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee call Angine de Poitrine’s music the “most entertaining and exhilarating” they’ve heard in a long time

The prog legends say the duo remind them of “Primus and a bit of Rush”. And they’re not the only guitar gods to be wowed by the polka-dot aliens lately

Guitar World · Aug 19

Rush’s Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson give the thumbs-up to Angine De Poitrine: “The most entertaining and exhilarating bits of music that I've heard for a long, long time”

“I love the fact that they've gone viral"

MusicRadar · Aug 18

Alex Lifeson reveals his struggles leading up to the Rush reunion tour: “I was sitting on the edge of my bed, at 2 o'clock in the morning, thinking if I made the right decision. Can I play? Am I good enough?”

After years of health issues, Lifeson wasn’t sure he could keep up with his own or the fans’ expectations of his playing

Guitar World · Aug 18

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“We were just looking at each other like, ‘Holy crap,' Like, he has turned back time”: Geddy Lee talks about the vocal prep he had to do for Rush’s 50 Something tour

Frontman had to take singing lessons to reach his full range

MusicRadar · Aug 17

Hot new prog from Asia, Maiah Wynne, Jonas Bjerre and more in Prog's brand new Tracks Of The Week

Top new proggy sounds you must hear from Exist Immortal, Hippotraktor, Dualisis, End Of Abyss and more in our all-new Tracks Of The Week

Louder · Aug 14

"I believed we would not get back together. I thought Rush was a place Neil was not going to be able to go back to emotionally": How Rush survived the 1990s and early 2000s

Rush refound their rock spirit in the 1990s – only to be blindsided by personal tragedy

Louder · Aug 13

Neil Peart documentary No One's Disciple will premiere at Toronto International Film Festival next month

Fans can expect "an exhilarating and poignant tribute to late Rush legend Neil Peart"

Louder · Aug 11

“He never rated himself as highly as everyone else did": New documentary in the pipeline about Rush’s Neil Peart

No One’s Disciple will be screened on Canadian TV in September

MusicRadar · Aug 6

Feel is more important than accuracy. Just ask Kim Thayil, Alex Lifeson and Jimmy Page

Sofia Victoria on how imperfect vibrato, wrong notes and open string noise can add substantial character to conventional soloing

Guitar World · Aug 5

“Alex Lifeson went off on loose-limbed benders, taking madcap detours and stretching out phrases just to see where they’d land”: Rush deliver the thrill of mastery at Madison Square Garden – live review

At the first show of their four-night stand in NYC, the new trinity of Lifeson, Lee, and Nilles delivered a tour de force of classics, deep cuts, and fearless musicianship

Guitar World · Jul 29

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Guitar World · Jul 15

“The biggest mindset shift is that guitarists should think of themselves as athletes”: As arthritis creeps into the hands of aging guitar heroes, what can we do to prolong our peak playing days?

Joint disorder doesn’t mean a divorce from your beloved guitars – but you need to focus on prevention, not cure

Louder · Jul 7

"We were the early version of Spinal Tap, turning it to 11."Rush before Geddy Lee: meet the bass player who stepped aside

"As far as I remember, I was always there" - original Rush bassist Jeff Jones puts the story straight

Guitar World · Jul 3

Loved by George Harrison, the Isley Brothers and Rush’s Alex Lifeson, the Maestro PS-1 Phase Shifter changed the face of popular music – but it sure was bulky

Tom Oberheim’s ingenious device fast became a studio essential upon its launch in 1971

Guitar World · Jul 2

“Alex said, ‘I don’t want to play my double-neck – it’s too heavy.’ I said, ‘I’ll do it!’ He lent me his white Gibson EDS-1275 for Stairway”: How Crown Lands went from Rush’s spiritual successors to playing Led Zeppelin with their heroes

Are Crown Lands heirs to the Rush crown as Canada’s foremost prog act? Kevin Comeau is just happy to be living the prog dream, falling down the rabbit-hole of double-necks and 19-minute tracks

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Louder · Jun 24

Remembering that time Rush's Alex Lifeson trolled the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame with the most ridiculous awards speech ever

"Blah blah blah, blah blah-blah-blah-blah, blah blah, blah blah-blah!"

Guitar World · Jun 23

“I’ve never been very confident as a player. I’ve always felt like I had to work hard, and maybe I didn’t appreciate that I have a natural talent for playing guitar”: Alex Lifeson’s 20 greatest guitar moments in Rush

From fever-dream epics to blistering solos, weird harmonizer effects and 12-string chime, here are Lerxst’s finest hours with the iconic Canadian prog trio

Metal Hammer · Jun 22

“We weren’t arrogant enough to think we were suddenly the most important band in the world. We just knew we were”: A metal fan’s guide to Rush

Side long epics, mad concepts and unlikely hit singles – how Canadian visionaries Rush laid down the blueprint for prog metal

Guitar World · Jun 16

“Alex and I looked at each other and went, ‘Wow, I think we have a drummer… Now what do we do?’” Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson on the inside story behind the Rush reunion

How Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee found drummer Anika Nilles and put together the biggest reunion tour in prog rock history

Guitar World · Jun 15

Alex Lifeson’s Rush reunion live rig has been revealed – and there’s not an amp in sight on the Fifty Something tour

Tube amps remain sidelined for the band's reunion tour as Lifeson leans into modeling gear

Louder · Jun 15

“He was like an alien. He could talk about anything. That’s when we said, ‘Let’s make him do lyrics!’”: Rush’s Neil Peart, an exploding golf ball and two career-changing conversations

Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson recall their late friend and bandmate, recalling what he brought to the band and how they began to move on without him

Louder · Jun 14

All the songs Rush have never played live… yet

Rush have recorded 167 original songs. They’ve never played 42 of them. Could that change on the Fifty Something tour?

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