Rush's twentieth and final studio album, Clockwork Angels, was started about an hour from where I sit now, at Blackbird Studios in Nashville, Tennessee with the first two singles. They traveled back north, finishing up in Toronto at Revolution Recording. The album heralded their return to roots in
Studio album number seventeen rolls in six years after their last one, and it took over a year to make. Vapor Trails would hit #6 on the Billboard 200 but has not yet hit gold or platinum status. In reality, that doesn't make much difference when you've reached the peak of rock like Rush has by
The Rush Review covers Rush in the 90's with Counterparts and Test for Echo!
Both Presto and Roll the Bones are very special Rush albums to me. Even though they cross decades, I'm reviewing them together. They both came out while I was in high school. Being the geek that I was (and still claim to be), these two cuts were comforting friends that helped me get through the
Our latest edition of the Rush Review covers two more 80s albums, 1985's Power Windows and 1987's Hold Your Fire. Get ready to rock! Read on...
Signals would be Rush's 9th studio album and follow-up to the monumental success of Moving Pictures only a year prior. It would go gold and platinum status in November 1982, only two months after release. The album would reach #10 on Billboard. It found greater success in the UK Albums Charts,
Rush smashed into the next decade with a new, radio-friendly concept on the 1980 release Permanent Waves. This album, and the one behind it, are in this writer's opinion, peak Rush. The near-perfect blend of rock and roll with synthesizer sounds would propel Rush's music into the 20th century and
Riding the wave of commercial success from 2112, Rush released their fifth LP, A Farewell to Kings, in 1977. Only a year after releasing their first multi-platinum album, Rush traveled to the UK and recorded this gem in Wales, marking the first time the band recorded outside of Toronto. The album
