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
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
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,
Carrie is one of Stephen King’s most loved and cherished works of fiction. Made into a seminal 1976 film and a later, more disappointing 2013 one, Carrie is an ageless tale of bullying, puberty, and female rage. When Mike Flanagan announced he was tackling the story of a telekinetic
Onimusha: Way of the Sword is a franchise revival that feels like it understands what made the original games so much fun. The gameplay is fast, frantic, and often delightfully violent, while the game throws a surprisingly large number of systems and mechanics at you. Thankfully, most of them feel
If you strip everything else away, at the core—the soul, the center—of DreamWorks Animation’s “Forgotten Island” is the pure, unadulterated power of goddamn friendship. Potential spoilers ahead! “Forgotten Island” (written and directed by Januel Mercado and Joel Crawford) is,