The March issue of Classic Rock Magazine has a little blurb about Rush and the issue's bonus CD contains a track from John Kastner which features the talents of Alex Lifeson. John Kastner is the founder of Montreal alternative rock band The Doughboys and currently fronts Canadian punk band All Systems Go!. About a year ago we learned that Lerxst would be playing on Kastner's first solo album Have You Seen Lucky which was released last year.

The article doesn't contain any new information; most of it seems to have been taken from the recent Alex Lifeson radio interview with Jeff Burrows , but here's the whole thing thanks to Counterparts member Ernest Scribbler:

Snakes Alive! - Rush in a rush over new studio album

Long-running Canadian rockers Rush are adding the final touches to their 18th full-length studio album, which will be titled either Snakes and Arrows or Snakes and Ladders when it is released via Atlantic Records in late April/early May.

Co-produced with Nick Raskulinecz (who has previously worked with Foo Fighters, Tenacious D and Stone Sour), Rush recorded the album in 30 days flat - their speediest finish since A Farewell to Kings in 1977. A 'making of' DVD is also likely to be released.

Drummer Neil Peart said recently that the albums' lyrics were inspired by his motorbike trips across America, stories later captured in literary form in a book called Roadshow: Landscape With Drums.

The trio expect to spend most of the year on the road, and undertake a lengthy North American tour kicking off in mid-June; European and South American shows are pencilled in for early 2008.

Now into their 33rd year as recordind artists, Rush are once again overlooked by the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame. "I couldn't care less. Look who's up for induction. It's a joke" guitarist Alex Lifeson said of the snub.

To hear a different side of Alex check out track 3 on our cover CD.

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