Video: Neil Peart Solos On Late Show With David Letterman
While we wouldn’t call Rush a metal band, they definitely count as progressive, and a direct influence to bands from Opeth to Between the Buried and Me. Drummer Neil Peart closed out the Late Show with...
View ArticleVideo: Members Of Tool, Rush, Primus, And The Police Jamming
This may indeed be a prog rock fans wet dream come true. Video of Rush drummer Neil Peart, Tool drummer Danny Carey, Primus bassist/frontman Les Claypool, and The Police drummer Steward Copeland...
View ArticleMore Bands Slated To Perform Revolver Golden Gods, Rush To Receive “Lifetime...
Last month, the nominees and initial performers for the 4th annual Revolver Golden Gods Awards were announced. And now more performances, honorees and special additions have been confirmed for this...
View ArticleMetal Insider’s Top 5: Replacements
Metal Insider’s Top 5 is a column where we count down the top five of…well basically anything. Last week, the metal world was thrown for a loop when Anthrax guitarist Rob Caggiano left the band to...
View ArticleDave Grohl and Taylor Hawkins Will Induct Rush Into The Rock And Roll Hall Of...
This past December, Rush were named one of six inductees into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame’s Class Of 2013 after years of getting snubbed. And yesterday, it was confirmed that the Canadian prog...
View ArticleHeadbangers Brawl 2/1: Our Predictions For The 2013 Revolver Golden Gods
Headbangers’ Brawl is a weekly column where Metal Insider’s contributors take a moment to debate and analyze two opposing sides of a topical issue occurring in the world of metal and/or the music...
View ArticleRush Finally Inducted Into Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame
If there’s one organization that’s more ridiculous than than the Grammys, it’s got to be the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. There’s nothing less rock and roll than board members deciding who should be...
View ArticleDanny Carey, Neil Peart and Stewart Copeland walk into a room…
If you’re a fan of drums, then you probably just had a nerdgasm from the headline alone. Former Police drummer Stewart Copeland uploaded a video yesterday of a jam at his studio, the Sacred Grove, in...
View ArticleNeil Peart has tendonitis, which is why this is the last Rush tour
If you’ve gotten tickets to see Rush this Summer, consider yourself lucky, because they’re done touring after this, according to Alex Lifeson. We’ve known for a while that they were going to slow down...
View ArticleAlex Lifeson of Rush assures fans that R40 tour is not the band’s end
In speaking with Eddie Trunk, Rush’s guitarist Alex Lifeson had some reassuring words to offer fans in the wake of their 40th anniversary tour R40 Live coming to a close. While R40 was rumored to be...
View ArticleRush drummer Neil Peart announces retirement from music
Warning: Before you proceed I must advise you, the reader, to go grab yourself a tissue, because this one is going to hurt. It is with a heavy heart that I come bearing the news that Neil Peart, the...
View ArticleGeddy Lee says Neil Peart hasn’t retired
Yesterday, anyone that’s ever done a paradiddle got sad when Rush drummer Neil Peart said that for all intents and purposes that he’d retired. Not so fast, vocalist Geddy Lee says. Speaking to Prog...
View ArticleRush’s Alex Lifeson gives a band non-update
We’d already known that last year’s Rush R40 tour was the end of an era, marking the end of the band as a steadily-touring entity. Rolling Stone caught up with guitarist Alex Lifeson to talk about...
View ArticleAlex Lifeson open to more Rush music, but band hasn’t heard from Neil Peart
Rush did their last big tour in 2015, yet guitarist Alex Lifeson seemed to leave the door open for new music from the trio. However, at the end of the year, drummer Neal Peart seemed to suggest that he...
View ArticleRIP: Rush drummer Neil Peart dies at 67
In some really sad news, Rush drummer Neil Peart has passed away at age 67 due to brain cancer. According to Elliott Mintz, a spokesperson for the Peart family, Peart was battling the cancer for three...
View ArticleNeil Peart: A Tribute (1952-2020)
1980, Milpitas California, I am 15 yrs old visiting family. I’m hanging out with my cousin, Mike, in his room. He puts on The Spirit of Radio… my mind doubles in size as I listen. “Jacobs Ladder,”...
View ArticleNeil Peart drumset scholarship announced by Hudson Music
Hudson Music has announced the The Neil Peart Drumset Scholarship, which will award four drummers for online drumset lessons from well-known artists/educators at PAS (Percussive Arts Society)....
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