The biggest names on the biggest brands: the best new signature guitars of 2024 GEAR EXPO 2024: Find out who is putting their names to what this year MusicRadar · Mar 29, 2024
"I don't write songs like a twenty-one-year-old any more, and I don't want to. I have much more to say": The story of Joan Jett, rebel with a cause How teenage Runaway Joan Jett turned into a grown-up luminary for music with attitude, humanist politics and gender equality Louder · Mar 27, 2024
Van Halen, Metallica, SRV, Iron Maiden, Rush, Dio, Yngwie, Vai and the greatest guitar albums of 1984 – only in the new Guitar World Featuring new interviews with Ace Frehley, Alex Lifeson, Adrian Smith, Adrian Belew, Earl Slick, Mike Ness, Steve Vai, Vicki Peterson, Vivian Campbell, Yngwie Malmsteen and more Guitar World · Mar 19, 2024
“People don’t realise the depth and diversity on the rest of the material. If you’re a Yes or Genesis devotee, this band should be on your radar”: Kansas’ image problem means even a future member struggled to discover them Zak Rizvi – a driving force for the band’s two most recent albums – once thought they were a southern rock or country rock band, until he dug deeper than Carry On Wayward Son and Dust In The Wind and found their prog roots Louder · Mar 8, 2024
“Don’t sell your first bass. Even if you never play it again, in later life you’ll wish you still had it”: With a stage name coined by Bootsy Collins, Freekbass names the one bass that “like an idiot” he ended up selling Chris ‘Freekbass’ Sherman on how a Rickenbacker and a BC Rich (via Tiran Porter from the Doobie Brothers) set him on a lifelong low-end path Guitar World · Mar 6, 2024
"Epitomising the blend of prog-rock chops, pop sensibility and Zappa-influenced weirdness that was Max's secret formula": Max Webster's High Class In Borrowed Shoes High Class In Borrowed Shoes is the second album by extravagantly dressed Canadian rock eccentrics and Rush buddies Max Webster Louder · Mar 4, 2024
“I chipped my tooth – my mom was so mad at me!” John 5 says playing a Jimi Hendrix-inspired version of Star Spangled Banner with his teeth as a kid led to a dental mishap – and shows he can still nail the tooth-picked tune The Mötley Crüe member has appeared guitar in hand (and mouth) on the Howard Stern Show to demonstrate AC/DC, Queen and Rush riffs Guitar World · Feb 23, 2024
“Man never quite hit the heights; I suppose they were almost too versatile… they locked into something nimble, nuanced and gorgeous”: James Dean Bradfield’s prog heroes The Manic Street Preachers vocalist discovered the genre via Rush, Floyd and Russian Circles – but fellow Welshmen’s 1976 album became his top choice on first listen Louder · Feb 21, 2024
"I think that Rush are the best band that have ever existed and ever will." Young UK prog rockers Square Wild state their case 2023 was a big year for Manchester quartet Square Wild, wininng Best Unisgned Band in the Prog Readers' Poll and introducing themselves to the prog community in no uncertain terms Louder · Feb 17, 2024
"You lose interest in smashing up hotel rooms... but there's days when there's a full moon and you feel a little crazy": In 1983, Alex Lifeson talked bad behaviour, bad press, and how Rush shook off their "lousy Led Zeppelin copy" tag When Alex Lifeson told an '80s interviewer that Rush were "not a wild band", he did so with a twinkle in his eye Louder · Feb 8, 2024
“Isn’t it the best when you get into a band and they happen to have so much material to discover?” Yes’ Jon Davison fell in love with the Moody Blues by falling in love with John Lodge’s daughter Singer has a soft spot for Tom Waits' melancholy first album and tree-hugger activities - and he’s in a band with his prog hero Louder · Feb 2, 2024
NAMM 2024: Alex Lifeson unites with Godin to channel and evolve his Hentor Sportcaster with the new signature Limelight guitar – “It was not quite enough for me to just develop a reissue of that very special instrument" “This was an opportunity to showcase 40 years of evolution within that solid platform," says the Rush guitar legend MusicRadar · Jan 25, 2024
NAMM 2024: “It’s not just a reissue of that very special instrument. This was an opportunity to showcase 40 years of evolution”: Alex Lifeson partners with Godin for the LERXST Limelight – a new take on his legendary Hentor Sportcaster The Rush icon has teamed-up with another forward-thinking Canadian export for his new S-style signature guitar Guitar World · Jan 25, 2024
"All those times we shared when it was the three of us, you can't get that back": Rush's Geddy Lee looks back on his effin' life To mark the publication of his autobiography My Effin' Life, Geddy Lee talks about the events and people who've shaped his life as a person and musician Louder · Jan 16, 2024
Guitar World · Jan 11, 2024 “I don't know if I can play like I played back then”: Alex Lifeson discusses how arthritis is affecting his playing – and why returning to the road might not be wise The Rush legend is taking “very, very effective” treatments to deal with his arthritis, but concedes his joint issue is “slowly getting worse”
Chicago Sun-Times · Jan 3, 2024 Masks are back in Chicago-area health care settings Some Chicago-area health care systems are again requiring visitors to mask up to help mitigate recent spreading of respiratory viruses, mainly influenza, COVID-19 and RSV. Rush is the latest to bring back masks.
Chicago Sun-Times · Dec 11, 2023 Stuart Levin, renowned Rush doctor and educator, dies at 88. Mr. Levin held various roles over five decades at Rush and was known as one of Chicago’s best diagnosticians. He was a mentor for generations, his colleagues said.
Louder · Dec 6, 2023 Geddy Lee releases two previously unheard solo tracks Gone and I Am…You Are both come from the sessions that resulted in Geddy Lee's debut solo album My Favorite Headache
Metal Hammer · Dec 3, 2023 Geddy Lee says he and Alex Lifeson have talked about recruiting one of the world's great drummers to tour as Rush again Geddy Lee drops strongest hint yet that he and Alex Lifeson could get Rush back on the road with a stand-in for Neil Peart
Louder · Dec 1, 2023 The least popular songs by 10 legendary rock bands We’ve combed Spotify to find out the least popular songs by Led Zeppelin, Queen, The Beatles, AC/DC and more
MusicRadar · Nov 30, 2023 Alex Lifeson reveals signature LERXST amp line with MojoTone ahead of writing sessions with Geddy Lee LERXST amplifiers could be just the start – guitars, pickups and pedals might be coming next
Guitar World · Nov 30, 2023 “There has been an explosion of guitar music in the past 5 years… LERXST amplifiers provide a platform for these players”: Alex Lifeson unveils LERXST amp range in collaboration with Mojotone – and there are new guitars, pedals and pickups to come The Rush guitar icon’s previously limited-edition Omega amp build is now available to all, alongside a new Chi head and combo – with more to come…
Louder · Nov 29, 2023 Rush's Geddy Lee scores top five placing on the Sunday Times Bestseller List with My Effin' Life memoir Rush bassist/vocalist Geddy Lee joins Britney Spears, Jeremy Clarkson, Billy Connolly and late Friends star Matthew Perry at the summit of the UK's best-selling books chart
Louder · Nov 27, 2023 "Circus magazine said, 'If Lee's voice was any higher and raspier, his audience would consist exclusively of dogs and extraterrestrials": Watch Geddy Lee read from his memoir My Effin' Life onstage in Seattle with Nirvana's Krist Novoselic Geddy Lee has a suggestion for you if you don't like his singing voice, and it's a pleasingly unfiltered suggestion
Cinemablend · Nov 25, 2023 32 Celebrities That Have Been Friends Since Before They Were Famous Years and years of friendship!