The Rush PR machine has been working overtime since the official news about the new Rush album came out 2 days ago. The press release is plastered all over the net and elsewhere - it's even been spotted on the CNN news crawl. This one from Billboard.com was one of the first and exemplifies most of the ones I've seen so far:
Rush has set a May 1 release date for its 18th studio album, "Snakes & Arrows." The Anthem/Atlantic set will be preceded by the single "Far Cry," which will hit U.S. rock radio outlets in mid-March. "Snakes & Arrows" is the follow-up to 2002's "Vapor Trails."
Drummer Neil Peart previously told Billboard.com some of his lyrics for the new songs were inspired by his motorcycle journeys throughout the United States, chronicled in his book "Roadshow: Landscape With Drums."
"Just seeing the power of evangelical Christianity and contrasting that with the power of fundamentalist religion all over the world in its different forms had a big effect on me," he said.
"You try to put your own way of seeing the world into some kind of congruence with other peoples, and that's difficult for me," he admits. "I mean, I see the world in what I think to be a perfectly obvious and rational way, but when you go out into it and see the way other people think and behave, and express themselves on church signs, you realize, 'Well, I'm not really part of this club.'"
Dates have yet to be announced, but Rush will return to the road for the first time in three years this summer.
Here are are just a few of the others:
Blabbermouth.net: RUSH: New Single Sample Available
The Rock Radio: New Rush track online, album title confirmed
Starpulse News Blog: Rush Announce New Album
So Hood Magazine: Rush Return With Snakes and Arrows
JAM! Showbiz Music: New Rush album out in May
IGN: Rush Return
antiMusic News: Rush Preview
Glide Magazine: Rush Returns with New Album & Summer Tour
Upstage Magazine: Rush Return With Snakes and Arrows
MTV.com: Metal File: Otep, Dimmu Borgir, Unearth & More News That Rules
Monsters & Critics: Rush sets dates for new album and tour
Earvolution: News and Notes
ChartAttack: The Rush For Snakes & Arrows Will Begin On May 1
groovevolt.com: News and Notes
Related Posts:
[New album release date May 1st; Far Cry sample online]
[New Rush single Far Cry to hit radio on March 19-20]
[New album, tour rumors: single March 13th, tour kickoff June 13th]
[Alex Lifeson says new album will be "heavier and more powerful"]
[Rush in LA putting final mixes on the new album]
[New album working title: Snakes and Arrows?]
[Alex Lifeson confirms tour and possible in-studio DVD!]
[Nick Raskulinecz talks about producing Rush]
[New Rush album article at Billboard]
[Neil Peart site update: BIG new album news]
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