Fearful Symmetries

Ooh! A Neil Peart documentary will be shown on CBC later this month. Looks like fun. How much of the running time will be taken up by footag...

Closed for my protection Open to your scorn Between these two directions My heart is sometimes torn

Another song I've been listening to a lot lately. Sadly, these folks no longer appear to be a band. This is a great version of the vener...

So I was reading some Marcus Aurelius as one does and came across this bit: And of course this made me think of "Tom Sawyer" and i...

A friend just wished me a Happy Rush Day. It took me a minute but then realized today is 21/12. Here's a bit of 2112 from Milwaukee in ...

It was on this day in 1989 that Rush released Presto . This was about 2 years after I had taken the plunge into their catalogue. Not as stro...

With such a large repository of knowledge, you'd think it would be easy to ascertain when Rush released Hemispheres but no. I have seen...

We have a proggy trifecta of anniversaries today. First we have Jethro Tull's Catfish Rising released this day in 1991. Perhaps not the...

Proggers love to release albums in late summer/autumn. Today we commemorate the day Rush released Signals back in 1982. It marks the start ...

This is where I boarded the Rush train back in 1987. Hold Your Fire . A desert island disc for me. Perhaps their most beautiful album. Relea...

Rush released Roll the Bones on this day in 1991. I recall bringing that tape home, if not that day, then shortly thereafter. "Dreamli...

Today is an anniversary twofer! First is Rush's A Farewell to Kings . Released this day in 1977, A Farewell to Kings sees Rush continui...

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Rush 's penultimate album, Snakes & Arrows , turns 17 today. I love this album. Two instrumentals! A fair amount of acoustic guitar,...

It was 40 years ago today that Rush released what is perhaps their most synth-laden album, Grace Under Pressure . "Distant Early Warnin...