Rush Tickets - Rush Plans For New Album, Clockwork Angels

In case you haven't noticed, Rush is cool again.

This might be as much a surprise to critics of the band as its fans, who were always told how steeped in "uncool" the band was. Prog? Acceptable in the '70s. Feathery hair? Not as much. Silk kimonos, epic ballads about Ayn Rand and fantasy worlds and sci-fi? Never, ever, ever.

That's what made the band such a cult item. You had to really care about the band to want to listen to their music, and for some fans, it just clicked. They spoke to the disillusioned and awkward, the music geeks willing to take a risk. Now, they're the ones laughing-the band is back with a vengeance, embarking on their first summer tour in ages and releasing a new record in the future.

Rush's new album is called "Clockwork Angels," and Alex Lifeson, the band's guitarist, recently told Billboard that the band will be heading straight into the studio to work on it after they finish this summer's Moving Pictures Tour, which will see the band stopping at a host of cities and playing through their classic "Moving Pictures" album. According to Lifeson, this is the first time the band has recorded an album this way, and that should help carry their creative juices off the road and into the studio.

"We've never afforded ourselves the luxury of coming off tour and then going straight into the studio when you're in top playing form," he said. "We usually finish a tour and then we take some time off and we slowly get back into writing and then into the studio, recording."

Billboard took the time to ask Lifeson a little about "Motion Pictures," as well. He described it as a flash point for the band's career, noting that it was the moment when they exploded, going from quirky but divisive Canadian rock trio to out and out rock heroes popular in the American mainstream.

"That was the album that took us to the next level," he said. "After the release of that album we were headlining everywhere and our audiences increased by a large percentage and it gave us that push forward. Plus, 'Camera Eye' has been probably the top song on our request list from fans for several years, so it really gives us an opportunity to include it in the set and to present it with the full album."

It's fair to say that this tour might put them on the next level, as well. After a long period of dormancy, the band is finally flexing their musical muscles again. They've been making appearances in movies ("I Love You, Man," "Suck") as well as TV shows ("The Colbert Report"), and it seems as if those fans they inspired back around the time "Moving Pictures" came out are finally in places of media power, making the call on what's cool and what's not.

And Rush, according to them, is definitely cool. Want Rush tickets? Buy them at StubHub.

by: Pat Smith

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