by Chris Annunziata | Nov 17, 2020 | News
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). Applications begin in March 2021 through the Percussive...
by Mark Zapata | Jan 28, 2020 | Tributes
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,” “Different Strings,” “Natural...
by Chris Annunziata | Jan 10, 2020 | Bummer Alert, News
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 years. An official statement from the band appears below. The...
by Bram Teitelman | Apr 13, 2017 | Updates
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 was done with the band, comparing it to an athlete taking himself...
by Bram Teitelman | Mar 8, 2016 | News, Touring, Updates
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 what’s going on with the band and, well,...