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Sat, Nov 8, 2025

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Rush's 2026 Fifty Something tour will consist of 58 shows in 24 cities! Look to extend to Europe, South America and Asia in 2027. Details, ticket info, and more here.
Alex Lifeson's Envy of None project signs with Anthem, releases The Thrill EP. Details and more here. 's new album Stygian Wavz now available for purchase. Details, available formats, videos, and more here.
Geddy Lee's new baseball book 72 Stories now available to purchase and Ged did a signing at the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum Oct. 11. Details, photos and more here.
The Rheostatics will be releasing their new album The Great Lakes Suite featuring Rush's Alex Lifeson on Nov. 21st, along with a pair of shows at TD Music Hall that same weekend. Details here.
Geddy Lee has releaseed a paperback edition of his 2023 memoir My Effin' Life including a new bonus chapter titled My Effin' Appendix. Details here.
Alex Lifeson sits in with Tom Morello's band in Toronto to perform Limelight. Details, video and more here.
Rush: The Albums - 2002-2012 7-LP box set now available for purchase. Details here.
RIAB now has an official YouTube channel, full of videos of Rush references, old interviews and live clips. Check it out and SUBSCRIBE here
Rush 50th anniversary compilation box set NOW AVAILABLE. Details, tracklist, photos, reviews and more here.
Neil Peart's Silver Surfers coffee table book now available for purchase. Details, cover and more here.
Sat, Nov 8, 2025@12:02PM | comments

Author Richard James will be following up last year's Rush 1973 to 1982: Every Album, Every Song book, with another volume as part of Sonicbond Publishing's On Track series, profiling the latter half of Rush's career. Rush 1984 to 2015: Every Album, Every Song will pick up where the last book left off, covering Rush's evolution from 1984's Grace Under Pressure on through 2015's Clockwork Angels album. From the product description:

This volume is the companion book to Rush On Track 1973 - 1982. Fans who hoped that 1982's keyboard heavy Signals had been a one off were to be disappointed. In line with their desire never to make the same album twice the infamous 'synth era' began. Albums including Power Windows, and Hold Your Fire split the fan base; the 'old guard' resenting the changes in both instrumentation and song-writing style. New followers joined the fold, however, and the band's popularity in album sales and concert receipts continued to grow. Rush were never ones for treading water, as subsequent releases into the 1990s showed a gradual but welcome return to the guitar-centric power-trio format. A double family tragedy for drummer Neil Peart seemed to signal the end of the band, with a sign-off triple live album, Different Stages appearing in 1997. But five years later a reformed Rush released a series of new albums, culminating in the magnificent concept record, Clockwork Angels. This book reviews all the band's studio and live releases from 1984's Grace Under Pressure to the final, farewell live album, R40, in 2015. Peart's subsequent retirement and tragically early death in 2020 finally closed the annals of this unique band.

The 160-page paperback book is slated to release on November 28th and can be pre-ordered here, while the first volume is currently available to purchase here. Thanks to John at Cygnus-X1.net for the heads up.

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Fri, Nov 7, 2025@3:18PM | comments
Rush Shadowbox art from Artovision"Artovision" has just released several new, officially-licensed, 3-dimensional collectable artwork pieces celebrating the anniversaries of Rush's "Permanent Waves", "Power Windows" and "Presto" albums ...
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Fri, Nov 7, 2025@10:24AM | comments
More shows added to Rush's Fifty Something tourFriday Rush updates! Geddy Lee talks setlists and extending Rush's "Fifty Something" tour outside North America in new interviews, Henderson Brewing's Rush Day 2026, Geddy Lee's signature SansAmp raises $68K for charity, Geddy hypes up Soundgarden ahead of their Rock Hall induction, and more ...
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Sun, Nov 2, 2025@10:29PM | comments
More shows added to Rush's Fifty Something tourRush's Geddy Lee talks Rush's upcoming "Fifty Something" tour in a new Canadian Press interview ...
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Fri, Oct 31, 2025@3:52PM | comments
Drummer Anika Nilles with RushRush's Geddy Lee recently chatted with the Globe and Mail to talk about the band's "Fifty Something" tour and how it came about in a new interview, including the possibility of extending the tour outside North America ...
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Fri, Oct 31, 2025@10:50AM | comments
More shows added to Rush's Fifty Something tourFriday Rush updates! Rush "Fifty Something" tour, Geddy Lee talks Blue Jays in the World Sereis in multiple new interviews, "Envy of None"'s "The Thrill", Tom Morello hangs out with Lerxst in Toronto, Bubba Bash '26, and more ...
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Wed, Oct 29, 2025@1:37PM | comments
72 Stories from the Collection of Geddy LeeRush's Geddy Lee was recently interviewed for a piece in the Toronto Star to discuss baseball, the Toronto Blue Jays and his new baseball book "72 Stories" ...
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Sun, Oct 26, 2025@5:46PM | comments
More shows added to Rush's Fifty Something tourThe Artist pre-sales for the newly-added dates on Rush's "Fifty Something" tour kick off TOMORROW at 12PM local venue time, and RIAB has compiled all the info we have so far that fans will need to know to participate ...
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Fri, Oct 24, 2025@3:04PM | comments
Geddy Lee watching Game 7 of the ALCSGeddy Lee was a guest on the CBC's Hanomansing Tonight yesterday evening to talk about the Toronto Blue Jays heading to the World Series, Rush's new tour and more ...
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Thu, Oct 23, 2025@5:17PM | comments
More shows added to Rush's Fifty Something tourThe 1st round of pre-sales for the newly-added dates on Rush's "Fifty Something" tour kick off TOMORROW at 12PM local time, and RIAB has compiled all the info we have so far that fans will need to know to participate ...
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