Rush’s ‘Moving Pictures’ at 40
Sean MurphyEvery band, if they’re lucky, is able to create a definitive work — a document that embodies their unique qualities. Most great bands, at some point in their career, successfully…
New World Man: An Appreciation of Neil Peart
He knows changes aren’t permanent, but change is. Taken from Rush’s most famous song, “Tom Sawyer,” this line might best illuminate the “elemental empathy” that came to define Neil Peart,…
Emotional feedback on a timeless wavelength: Rush’s ‘Permanent Waves’ (Revisited)
How unbelievably appropriate that Permanent Waves was released on January 1, 1980? In virtually every regard, this album ended the '70s (literally) and foreshadowed the fertile grounds (reggae, pop elements,…
Emotional feedback on a timeless wavelength: Rush’s ‘Permanent Waves’ (Revisited)
How unbelievably appropriate that Permanent Waves was released on January 1, 1980? In virtually every regard, this album ended the '70s (literally) and foreshadowed the fertile grounds (reggae, pop elements,…
Emotional feedback on a timeless wavelength: Rush’s ‘Permanent Waves’ (Revisited)
How unbelievably appropriate that Permanent Waves was released on January 1, 1980? In virtually every regard, this album ended the '70s (literally) and foreshadowed the fertile grounds (reggae, pop elements,…
RUSH HOUR
4/18/2003: today is the day mein froinds! Rush is officially inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame tonight. I've written quite a bit about one of my favorite…
Emotional feedback on a timeless wavelength: Rush’s ‘Permanent Waves’
How unbelievably appropriate that Permanent Waves was released on January 1, 1980? In virtually every regard, this album ended the '70s (literally) and foreshadowed the fertile grounds (reggae, pop elements, concise…
Drag the Dream Into Existence: Reassessing Rush’s Masterpiece (Revisited)
Every band, if they are lucky, is able to create a definitive work—a document that embodies their unique qualities. Most great bands, at some point in their career, successfully produce…
Drag the Dream Into Existence: Reassessing Rush’s Masterpiece
Moving Pictures, Thirty Years On Every band, if they are lucky, is able to create a definitive work—a document that embodies their unique qualities. Most great bands, at some point…
Rush: 2112 & Moving Pictures (Classic Albums Series)
The Album Rush Was Meant To Make (Both of Them) It’s difficult to imagine how music might have sounded in the ‘70s and, by extension, today, if Rush had not…