Canadian rockers Rush donated $100,000 from the sale of tickets to last weekend's Winnipeg concert for that city's Museum for Human Rights, reports The Winnipeg Free Press.The group also announced today they will be selling museum T-shirts at all of the remaining Canadian stops on their Snakes and Arrows Live concert tour, and donating all of the proceeds from those sales.Rush's contributions w...
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Tomorrow Night (Wednesday, July 16) Canadian trio RUSH will play its classic "Tom Sawyer" on the Comedy Central show "The Colbert Report." The scheduled broadcast will be the group's first performance on television since 1975, reports the CBC. As previously reported, the group is on tour in support of their latest Snakes & Arrows released via Atlantic. Released May 1st, 2007. Their 18th studio...
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Taxes are the issue this week as Americans struggle to make the April 15th deadline to file their returns. It is a good time to contemplate the effects of big government and what it does to our country. The income tax is one of the most egregious encroachments on our liberties today. It is a form of involuntary servitude, which was supposed to have been outlawed by the 13th Amendment. Tax F...
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The Guitar Player TV web site has uploaded three clips of Rush guitarist Alex Lifeson. The first is a four minute sit-down interview where Alex talks about his favorite Rush songs among other things. In the second video Alex introduces us to all the guitars he's brought on tour, and in the last video Lifeson shows off his stage rig. To check out the footage, goto:http://www.guitarplayertv.com/ ...
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The World's Most Innovative CompaniesThe leaders in nurturing cultures of creativityby Jena McGregor At some point over the past few years you've probably been invited to join your colleagues at some hip off-site locale to brainstorm "out-of-the-box" ideas. You may have been persuaded by creativity consultants to play with Lego blocks to help free your mind or to "ideate" new products. But as s...
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The Rush fan site Power Windows reports that the enduring prog-rockers from Toronto have scored the sixth highest-grossing U.S. tour of the summer with $21 million, third among rock acts, according to USA Today. Over 38 shows, RUSH had an attendance of 399,000, with 67% of seats filled.The reunited The Police took the top spot for the Summer of 2007. Touring extensively and playing to sellout c...
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The website for KKRW-93.7 FM out of Houston, TX has made seven songs (half of the album) from Rush's upcoming album, ??Snakes & Arrows??, available for listening in their entirety.The songs available for preview are "Far Cry", "Armor And Sword", "Workin' Them Angels", "The Larger Bowl", "Spindrift", "Bravest Face" and "Malignant Narcissism".??Snakes & Arrows?? will be release through Anthem/Atl...
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What am I suppose to do? Where are the words that will make you see. What I beleive is true? (RUSH) Hear the song 'Spindrift' by RUSH from their 2007 cd 'SNAKES and ARROWS' at you know.......And now to NFL Week 6. In my 50 -50 games I like INDIANAPOLIS over Baltimore 26 - 20. Ravens aren't gonna win at INDY are they? I also like DALLAS over Arizona 30 -27, but with the Cardinals covering the +5...
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A 52-second audio sample of Rush's new song "Spindrift" was posted on the band's website. The track is taken from ??Snakes & Arrows??(Atlantic), the band's eighteenth studio album due out on May 1."Click Here":CH to give the sample a listen and to see details for Rush's current world tour.In a sign of the times that the CD may soon go the way of the Beta and Laserdisc, ??Snakes & Arrows?? will ...
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The more things change, the more they stay the same...From canoe.ca/jamBy Darryl Sterdan (Sun Media)A music industry that has grown complacent. A radical new technology that threatens the status quo. Financial crises. Years of heated resistance and legal posturing.Sound familiar? It should — to your great-grandfather. It's what happened back in the 1920s when the record industry first faced off.
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From news.comU.S. law often comes down hard on price fixing. That's why a magazine story in October about efforts to create a music subscription site potentially backed by the top four music labels may have sounded alarms in Washington. Universal Music Group and Sony BMG Music Entertainment have received requests for information from the U.S. Department of Justice about a proposed music site ca...
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Interesting article from Gearlog.com. I hope what they say about the pads aren't true otherwise I may have to wait until they upgrade it a bit. Read OnWe got the new Rock Band game into the PC Labs a few days ago, much to the consternation of our bosses. Who can work when there's a drum set, two guitars, and a mic just sitting there unused? Anyway, being something of a musician myself, and one ...
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Rush is one of those bands that I count as a primary musical influence of my youth. I cant tell you how many times I’ve seen them live, shit they even played in my high school Not gonna say what year that was. So as such I tend to keep a close eye on them and this is what I have found out so far. Well anyone who knows Rush is aware that they are releasing a new CD titled Snakes and Arrows, due.
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Rush drummer Neil Peart's web site has been updated with a "drums-only" version of the new track "Main Monkey Business". Just enter the site here and use the embedded player to listen- "CLICK HERE":CH. The song appears on Rush's new album, ??Snakes & Arrows?? (Atlantic), which has sold 160,000 copies in the United States since its May 1 release, according to Nielsen SoundScan.The disc is the fi...
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early 80's, sitting on my brother's floor, wearing his wrestling shoes, listening to rush, gtr, zeppelin, so fucking loudly that my head felt disconnected to my body, and knowing NOTHING else besides music, in the world as i knew it, mattered.from pollstar:"Rush has announced its Snakes & Arrows World Tour. The Canadian trio starts the North American leg June 13 at Atlanta's HiFi Buys Amphithea...
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