Although Canadian trio Rush has started recording its next album, Clockwork Angels, Billboard.com reports that the band is using the summer's tour as inspiration to wrap up the album. Speaking about recording Clockwork Angeles, which is set to arrive in 2011, Rush guitarist Alex Lifeson tells Billboard.com, "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. 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. This time we'll go straight back into the studio and continue recording and writing while we're still in top form from the road."
Rush is teaming up with producer Nick Raskulinecz, who helmed 2007's Snakes & Arrows, on Clockwork Angels, which is "a little more than halfway done," according to Lifeson. Rush has recorded four new tracks during session at Nashville, Tennessee's Blackbird Studios, and two more songs, "Caravan" and "BU2B," have been released online.
"Certainly these two songs are pretty heavy indications of where the record's going, but there are a lot of different tonalities and soundscapes on the material that we've written so far, so I'm interested to see where we go on these next few songs," Lifeson says. The band decided to release "Caravan" and "Bu2B" themselves as a way to adapt to the changing music industry and it has paid off, as the tracks have already received positive feedback.
Rush kicked off its summer tour (dubbed the Time Machine Tour) in Albuquerque, N.M. on June 29, but plans on touring in support of Clockwork Angels once it arrives. This summer, fans with Rush tickets can see the trio perform its 1980 album Moving Pictures in its entirety.
Crediting bandmate drummer Neil Peart with the idea for the album, Lifeson says Moving Pictures "was the album that took us to the next level. 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." Get Rush tickets to hear songs off the album, like the iconic track "Camera Eye," online.
Rush's award-winning documentary Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage premiered on VH1, VH1 Classic and Palladia on June 26 and arrived in DVD form the same day the band hit the road on tour. Although the documentary will undoubtedly strike a chord with longtime Rush fans, Lifeson wondered to Billboard.com, "Will it pique the interest of people who just want to go see a documentary that might be interesting rather than being Rush fans and going for that reason? It's an interesting story that a lot of people can relate to, and at the same time it's kind of unique and different."
Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage chronicles the 40-year career of Rush and in addition to interviewing the three band members, filmmakers Sam Dunn and Scot McFadyen interviewed famous Rush fans like Gene Simmons, Billy Corgan and Tim Commerford, reports rollingstone.com.
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