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In a new interview, Rush guitarist Alex Lifeson revealed that he recently had dinner with Metallica’s Kirk Hammett and Rob Trujillo — an evening that culminated with an impromptu jam session.

Speaking with prog-rock site Sea of Tranquility, Lifeson said he went out for dinner with the Metallica members in Toronto for the “M72 World Tour” last week, and the veteran musicians ended up jamming for a few hours afterward at Lifeson’s house.

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“They came over after dinner and we played for a few hours, and it was great,” Lifeson said (as transcribed by Blabbermouth), explaining that the trio locked into a simple blues vamp before getting more adventurous, much to the Rush guitarist’s delight.

“Often in the past, if you jam with a bunch of people, we’d play a 12-bar bluesy thing; everybody can play that: ‘Let’s do that,'” Lifeson said.

A new tribute album celebrating the music of Canadian hard rockers Triumph is set to drop June 6th via Round Hill Records. Sebastian Bach’s rendition of “Rock & Roll Machine” can be streamed below.

Magic Power: An All-Star Tribute to Triumph lives up to its billing and features a stacked cast of musicians including Bach, Slash, Nancy Wilson of Heart, Anthrax’s Joey Belladonna, Dee Snider, Phil X, Deen Castronovo, and more.

The 15-track album was conceived by veteran rock producer Mike Clink, who brought in skilled instrumentalists to match the vocal talent: drummers Kenny Aronoff and Tommy Aldridge, and guitarists Alex Lifeson, Bumblefoot, Paul Gilbert, and Nita Strauss, in addition to Slash (who contributes slide guitar to the track “I Life for the Weekend”).

Among the tracks covered include “24 Hours a Day” and “Rock & Roll Machine” (both sung by Sebastian Bach); the signature title cut “Magic Power” (Joey Belladonna...

Forty-seven tracks into Rush 50 — a new career-spanning anthology presenting 50 songs across nearly five hours — a cool sonic Easter egg arrives. Near the beginning of “Headlong Flight,” a track from Rush’s final studio album, 2012’s Clockwork Angels, Alex Lifeson plays a slashing solo-guitar break, which Geddy Lee and Neil Peart answer with quick unison bass-and-drum punches. The moment is a deliberate, near-exact replica of a passage from “Bastille Day,” originally released 37 years prior and included as track 10 on the comp. It’s both a fun throwback, and — heard here in...

Rush guitarist Alex Lifeson says that following longtime drummer Neil Peart’s death in January 2020, the band was immediately bombarded with e-mails from drummers who wanted to audition for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame act.

In the years since Peart’s passing after a private battle with brain cancer, Lifeson has insisted that Rush will never reunite with a new drummer, while singer-bassist Geddy Lee has seemingly been more open to the possibility of the two surviving members playing Rush songs again in some capacity.

In a new interview with radio station Q104.3 host Jonathan Clarke, Lifeson was asked about the constant questions he gets about a possible Rush reunion.

“We’re bombarded by it all the time,” responded the guitarist. “After Neil passed, it didn’t take more than a few minutes before we started getting e-mails from all kinds of drummers who wanted to audition for the band,...

A little more than a year ago, Geddy Lee told Rolling Stone that he was trying to convince Alex Lifeson to agree to a tour that would put them back on the road together for the first time since the final Rush outing in 2015. “Alex has some concerns about his health, it’s very hard for him to get his head around the idea of doing a tour,” Lee said, noting that he’d be reluctant to call it Rush without Neil Peart. “So I just keep working on him.

Alex Lifeson continues to squash any talk of a Rush reunion, even though the guitarist is still jamming with singer-bassist Geddy Lee every week. In fact, Lifeson says any reunion would merely make the legendary act a “top Rush tribute band.”

In a new interview, Lifeson revealed that his weekly jams with Geddy are locked into his calendar, and that the two are still playing Rush material.

“It’s good to jam with friends as you get older,” Lifeson told Classic Rock. “I need to play. Once a week I go to Ged’s — it’s in the calendar — keep my fingers moving, play Rush stuff, new jams. We do record it, but I couldn’t even begin to tell you where it’ll go.”

That led Lifeson to reflect on his onstage reunion with Geddy at the tribute concerts for Taylor Hawkins in 2022. Naturally, Rush’s legacy also came up — and the potential,...

Envy of None, the band featuring legendary Rush guitarist Alex Lifeson, have announced a new album titled Stygian Wavz. Ahead of the LP’s March 14th release, the band has unveiled the title track and its accompanying music video.

In addition to Lifeson, Envy of None features Maiah Wynne, Andy Curran, and Alf Annibalini.

Stygian Wavz is comprised of 11 tracks, including the previously released singles “Not Dead Yet” and “Under the Stars.” The album is the follow-up to Envy of None’s self-titled debut, which was released in 2022.

Regarding the newly released title track, bassist Curran stated, “This track is a favorite of all 4 EONs [Envy of None members]. Despite the fact of the spartan lyrical content, this song features our sweet Maiah on lead vocals. Her harmonies and layers of vocals are literally symphonic! It’s hard to put a finger on what style or genre this one is…...

Rush have reflected on their 2015 farewell tour, acknowledging that they “let our British and European fans down” by not performing shows abroad. In a new interview with Classic Rock, bassist Geddy Lee and guitarist Alex Lifeson discussed the band’s conclusive world tour, which coincided with drummer Neil Peart’s failing health.

“I’d pushed really hard to get more gigs so that we could do those extra shows and I was unsuccessful,” Lee said in the interview. “I really felt like I let our British and European fans down.

Rhino has unveiled a new vinyl box set collecting Rush’s four studio albums from 1989 through 1996, arriving this Friday (November 1st).

The 6-lp set houses Presto (1989), Roll the Bones (1991), Counterparts (1993), and Test for Echo (1996) — all of which have been out of print on vinyl since they were last reissued in 2015. Counterparts and Test for Echo are spread across two LPs and three sides each.

These would be the final four albums Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, and Neil Peart recorded for Atlantic Records prior to going on hiatus in 1997. Each record features original artwork, plus a print featuring reimagined cover art, and comes housed in a slipcase featuring new artwork by the band’s longtime art director Hugh Syme.

Rush signed with Atlantic prior to the release of Presto, which peaked at No. 16 on the Billboard album charts in 1989. The band enjoyed more success with its follow-up Roll the Bones in 1991, hitting No.

Rush guitarist Alex Lifeson’s gear company Lerxst has partnered with with pedal-makers Morley for the new “Blah Blah” wah.

The “Blah Blah” (available via Reverb) derives its name from Lifeson’s eccentric speech during Rush’s Rock Hall induction in 2013 — appropriate given the “expressive” nature of the new pedal.

As Rush fans are well aware, wah has long been a prominent element of Lifeson’s style of playing, and Lerxt and Morley dialed in the pedal’s voice response to Lifeson’s specifications.

Morley’s switchless optical wah circuit is paired with a second circuit that allows for filtering effects. The two are interchangeable via a soft-click footswitch, with the pedal activated as soon as the treadle is moved forward. Spring-loaded action makes it return to the upright position once the player removes their foot.

Circuit response dynamics can be adjusted via a Pitch knob, so guitarists can dial...

John Mayall, the newly minted Rock and Roll Hall of Famer whose group the Blues Breakers helped nurture many British music legends including Eric Clapton, Mick Taylor and several future members of Fleetwood Mac, died Monday in California. He was 90.

His family released a statement on social media confirming the news but gave few details other than citing “health issues.”

“It is with heavy hearts that we bear the news that John Mayall passed away peacefully in his California home yesterday, July 22, 2024, surrounded by his loving family,” the Instagram post reads. “Health issues that forced John to end his epic touring career have finally led to peace for one of this world’s greatest road warriors.”

Heralded as “The Godfather of British Blues,” singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Mayall had a love of American blues and jazz — and a gift for spotting young talent. In a 2014 interview with The Guardian, he...

Rush members Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee are each reissuing their debut solo albums. Lifeson’s 1996 effort, Victor, and Lee’s 2000 LP, My Favourite Headache, will each arrive in various formats on August 9th via Rhino Records and Anthem Records.

Lifeson’s Victor will be released on vinyl for the first time ever, in Ruby Translucent 2Lp; Blue Translucent 2Lp; Crystal Clear Translucent 2Lp (exclusive to U.S. & Row); and Standard Black; as well as on CD. Pre-orders are available here.

It’s been remixed by Lifeson himself and contains four instrumental tracks that were previously only available on the guitarist’s website. Among the contributing artists to the original album are lead vocalist Edwin from I Mother Earth, Primus bassist Les Claypool, and Canadian vocalist Lisa Dalbello.

Lee’s My Favourite Headache is the singer-bassist’s only solo album to date. The fourth side of the 2Lp set features two instrumental mixes.

British producer Peter Collins, known for his work with Rush and Queensrÿche, has died at the age of 73.

Collins was perhaps best known for his production credits on four Rush albums in the 1980s and ’90s: Power Windows (1985), Hold Your Fire (1987), Counterparts (1993), and Test for Echo (1996).

He also notably produced Queensrÿche’s biggest albums — 1988’s Operation: Mindcrime and 1990’s Empire — as well as Alice Cooper’s 1991 LP Hey Stoopid, Suicidal Tendencies’ The Art of Rebellion (1992), and Bon Jovi’s These Days (1995).

Outside of metal and hard rock, Collins was behind the boards on numerous hits throughout the 1980s by the likes of Nik Kershaw, Musical Youth, Tracey Ullman, Alvin Stardust, and Gary Moore.

Rush’s Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson, as well as the band’s official account, paid tribute to the late producer on social media.

Lee posted the following in remembrance of Collins:

“So sad to hear of the passing of Peter Collins.

Rush members Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson reunited onstage during a tribute concert for the late Canadian songsmith Gordon Lightfoot on Thursday (May 24th) at Massey Hall in Toronto.

The star-studded concert saw a plethora of Canadian artists paying homage to their fellow songwriter and countryman, who passed away last year.

Lee and Lifeson took the stage alongside alt-country vets Blue Rodeo for a performance of Lightfoot’s “The Way I Feel,” making a surprise appearance after being billed as “L + L” prior to the sold-out show.

The ensemble stretched the cover into a six-minute psych-folk workout, which in turn allowed Lee and Lifeson to go full-on prog and stretch out themselves, musically speaking. Geddy got feisty with his bass runs, and Lifeson carried the rhythm section with physical and impassioned strumming. The consummate professionals in Blue Rodeo sat back and let it ride.

“It was important for us to pay tribute to Gordon,...

Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson made an increasingly rare appearance onstage together Thursday as the Rush duo covered Gordon Lightfoot’s “The Way I Feel” at a Toronto tribute concert for the late Canadian singer-songwriter.

Lee and Lifeson, who were billed as “L+L” on the lineup, performed alongside the Canadian country act Blue Rodeo at the gig at Massey Hall, the same Toronto venue where Rush recorded their All the World’s a Stage live album in 1976.

“On Thursday evening at Massey Hall in Toronto, both Alex and myself...

Surviving Rush members Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson have been jamming some of the band’s songs together lately, although fans shouldn’t hold their breath for a Rush reunion

In a new interview with Ultimate Classic Rock, Lifeson revealed that he’s been meeting up with Geddy in-person to jam Rush songs — something they haven’t done regularly since 2015, when the band played its final shows.

“We decided that we would play some Rush songs,” Lifeson said. “Because, you know, we haven’t played these songs in 10 years. We started that a couple of weeks ago. We get together one day a week over at his place.”

So far, it’s been slow going, as the guitarist and bassist ease back into the complex songs they helped write together years/decades ago.

“We just picked some Rush songs and we started playing them and we sound like a really,...

As far as Alex Lifeson is concerned, the band to which he devoted five decades of his life is over, but that doesn’t mean he’s done as a musician. The former Rush guitarist is hard at work on new music in his well-stocked home studio, recording guitar parts for the second album by Envy of None, the band he co-founded in 2021 with bassist Andy Curran (formerly of the Canadian rock band Coney Hatch), keyboardist/guitarist Alfio Annibalini, and the talented 27-year-old vocalist Maiah Wynne. He’s also started his own custom equipment company,...

An animated video for Mark Knopfler’s all-star charity single “Going Home (Theme From Local Hero)” – which brought together a stunning lineup of over 60 guitar gods to raise funds for Teen Cancer America and the Teenage Cancer Trust – has been released. It features the final recording of Jeff Beck along with contributions by Bruce Springsteen, David Gilmour, Slash, Ronnie Wood, Joan Jett, Eric Clapton, Pete Townshend, and Sting.

The song came out a week ago, but it was difficult to discern who was playing what part throughout the ten-minute song.

Mark Knopfler has teamed up with a host of fellow guitar legends to record a version of his song “Going Home (Theme from Local Hero)” to raise funds for Teenage Cancer Trust and Teen Cancer America.

The Dire Straits frontman tapped Eric Clapton, Slash (Guns N’ Roses), David Gilmour (Pink Floyd), Brian May (Queen), Tony Iommi (Black Sabbath), Pete Townshend (The Who), Alex Lifeson (Rush), Bruce Springsteen, Ronnie Wood (The Rolling Stones), Joan Jett, and many more, forming what he has dubbed “Mark Knopfler’s Guitar Heroes.” Notably, the star-studded version opens with the final recorded guitar track by the late Jeff Beck.

Knopfler’s longtime collaborator Guy Fletcher handled the production of the track, which might be the greatest assemblage of guitar talent to co-exist on a single song. The Sgt. Pepper‘s-style artwork was created by Sir Peter Blake.

The full song can be heard below now, featuring...

South Park: The 25th Anniversary Concert will be released on vinyl for the first time ever on Record Store Day on April 20th.

The recording captures the August 2022 shows featuring South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker performing at Colorado’s Red Rocks Amphitheater alongside Ween, Primus, and Rush’s Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson.

While the concert is available to watch on Paramount+ and the audio can be found on streaming services, this marks the first time South Park: The 25th Anniversary Concert gets a vinyl release. The 3-lp set is pressed on “Towelie-Blue” vinyl and features 22 tracks.

The setlist includes a number of South Park songs along with Ween and Primus tunes, as well as a surprise performance featuring Lee and Lifeson joining Stone (on drums) and Primus for the Rush classic “Closer to the Heart.”

The Record Store Day release is limited to 4,000 copies, and...

Dire Straits’ Mark Knopfler has united with over 60 artists — including Bruce Springsteen, David Gilmour, Slash, Eric Clapton, Ringo Starr, Ronnie Wood, Jeff Beck, Pete Townshend, Sting, Brian May, Joan Jett, Nile Rodgers, and Brian May — to create a new version of his 1983 instrumental “Going Home: Theme of the Local Hero.”

The song arrives on March 15, though you can hear a brief sample right now. It’s the final recording Jeff Beck created before his death in January 2023. All proceeds from the release will benefit Teenage Cancer Trust and Teen Cancer America.

Geddy Lee’s ongoing book tour in support of his memoir My Effin’ Life has featured the Rush singer-bassist in conversation with a different host in each city. It was fitting, then, that Geddy’s homecoming appearance and final North American tour date in Toronto onThursday (December 7th) saw him alongside longtime friend and Rush bandmate Alex Lifeson.

For the many Rush fans in attendance, it offered a rare glimpse into two’s friendship as they shared memories and reflected on the band’s legendary career.

As reported by The Globe and Mail, Lee and Lifeson mentioned the late drummer Neil Peart and his lengthy battle with cancer, but chose to focus mostly on the happy times, like when Peart showed up to audition with his drums in garbage bags, only to win over his future bandmates on raw talent.

They also reflected on the Dodge van, dubbed “Fun Craft,...

Rush guitarist Alex Lifeson has teamed with Mojotone for the Lerxst By-Tor Drive signature guitar pedal.

Lifeson originally began working with Mojotone in 2012 during the album cycle for Rush’s Clockwork Angels, developing a custom tube amp head that featured the sonic characteristics that have come to define Lifeson’s tone and style throughout his lengthy career. The resulting amp, the Lerxst Omega, was only limited to 100 and is long-since sold out.

Thankfully, Lifeson and Mojotone are working on a full production run of the Lerxst Omega heads, along with matching cabinets and other head/combo amp options/gear. That includes the Lerxst By-Tor Drive, which harnesses the 50-watt Lerxst Omega amp into compact pedal form.

Described as a “pedalboard-friendly version of the Omega,” the box replicates the intensity and growl of the tube amp and is capable of jumping from light/crunchy drive to tube-like overdrive via the various...

Nearly 50 years after the release of his band’s first album, we’re still getting to know Geddy Lee. For much of its career, Rush managed to be an arena-level band without over-selling its three members as personalities — but as some fans learned for the first time via the great 2010 documentary Beyond the Lighted Stage, Lee (the band’s frontman, bassist, and somehow also keyboardist), guitarist Alex Lifeson, and late drummer Neil Peart were actually fascinating human beings the entire time. In his entertaining new autobiography, My Effin’ Life, Lee...

Two titans of progressive music came together on Monday night (November 20th) when Rush guitarist Alex Lifeson joined Tool onstage during the latter’s concert at Toronto’s Scotiabank Arena.

Tool notoriously don’t allow filming with cellphones during their concerts, but a few fans snuck footage of the historic moment, as seen in the clips below. Lifeson joined Tool for the 10,000 Days track “Jambi,” incorporating the intro and guitar solo of Rush’s “A Passage to Bangkok” from the iconic 2112 album.

Lifeson grew up in Toronto, making the surprise performance a hometown gig for the guitar legend. It marked a rare appearance by the guitarist, who last year performed alongside Rush bandmate Geddy Lee at Foo Fighters’ tribute concert to the late Taylor Hawkins in Los Angeles.

Just recently, Lee has been talking about the future of Rush, who haven’t played a show since 2015. Following the passing...

After hinting earlier this month that a Rush reunion could happen, singer-bassist Geddy Lee opened up about the logistics of touring and writing new music alongside the band’s other surviving member, guitarist Alex Lifeson.

Rush haven’t toured since 2015, and the band essentially ended with the death of drummer Neil Peart in 2020. In a new interview with Rolling Stone, Lee spoke at length about the potential of working with Lifeson again, including an inspiring conversation between the two and Paul McCartney. A portrait of longevity himself, The Beatles legend encouraged them to hit the road.

Lee has already said that the tribute shows for late Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins, during which he performed Rush material alongside an all-star band, rejuvenated his urge to play live again. The tribute concerts included gigs at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles (the site of final Rush show in 2015) and Wembley Stadium in London.

Rush frontman and bassist Geddy Lee, author of the excellent new autobiography My Effin’ Life, talks about many things in his new Rolling Stone Music Now interview, from his childhood as the son of two Holocaust survivors to his earliest musical influences (including the Hollies, Motown hits, Cream and Rhinoceros) to the ups and downs of his band’s synth period. But Rush fans will be most anxious to hear Lee’s extended thoughts on the possible future of his work with guitarist Alex Lifeson in the wake of Neil Peart...

It has now been over three years since legendary Rush drummer Neil Peart passed away. During the kickoff for his book tour, Geddy Lee opened up about the last time he saw his longtime bandmate, sharing a tearful anecdote of what would be their final face-to-face conversation with one another.

Geddy launched his book tour Monday night (November 13th) at the Beacon Theatre in New York City. The evening — moderated by actor Paul Rudd — featured readings from Geddy’s memoir, My Effin’ Life, as well as a Q&a session featuring questions directly from the audience.

It was during the Q&a portion of the evening that Lee discussed his final meeting with Peart, who had secretly been battling glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer, for three years.

“[During the final months of his life, Neil] would listen to a different Rush album and he would be analyzing it and listening to something he hadn’t heard...

My Effin’ Life, the new memoir from Rush’s frontman and bassist, Geddy Lee, tells a tale that’s almost as epic in scale as his band’s largest-scale songs, from his upbringing as the child of two Holocaust survivors, to the rise of Rush, to the loss of drummer Neil Peart in 2020, and everything in between. In this exclusive excerpt, Lee takes us back to 1969, when an early, as-yet-unsigned lineup of Rush consisted of “Alex Lifeson, keyboardist Lindy Young, drummer John Rutsey, and me … until I am dumped.” (Lee...

Geddy Lee seems quite open to the idea of reviving Rush with his surviving bandmate Alex Lifeson, after the 2020 death of drummer Neil Peart effectively ended the band.

Lee discussed his feelings towards performing again in a new interview with The Washington Post, and though the surviving members of Rush have expressed interest in a proper reunion before, they actually did have a de facto reunion last year after Dave Grohl convinced them to perform at the star-studded tribute concerts for the late Taylor Hawkins.

“It had been a taboo subject,” Lee said of the experience. “And playing those songs again with a third person was the elephant in the room, and that kind of disappeared.”

During the Taylor Hawkins tribute shows in both Los Angeles in London, Lee and Lifeson played Rush songs alongside musical friends including Danny Carey, Omar Hakim, Chad Smith, and Grohl himself. They all played...

Geddy Lee is gearing up not just for the launch of his memoir My Effin’ Life and nationwide book tour but also for the new Paramount Plus docuseries Geddy Lee Asks: Are Bass Players Human Too? The four-part series will feature in-depth conversations between Lee and Nirvana’s Krist Novoselic, Metallica’s Rob Trujillo, Primus’ Les Claypool, and Hole/Smashing Pumpkins bassist Melissa Auf der Maur. It premiers on December 5.

The trailer shows Lee trading licks with Auf der Maur, fishing with Claypool, canning tomatoes with Novoselic, and surfing with Rob Trujillo.

Rush guitarist Alex Lifeson has teamed up with Epiphone for the new Les Paul Custom Axcess signature model.

The guitar comes in a Ruby finish and in both left-handed and right-handed configurations. Appointments includes an Epiphone Ceramic Pro neck and Pro Bucker 3 bridge pickups with push/pull coil splitting on the volume controls, along with a Floyd Rose 1000 Series tremolo.

“This is a stunning guitar, it’s beautiful and it sounds great to play,” commented Lifeson in a press release. “You have got to plug it in and play it, it sounds great. You can create a lot of different tones and sounds, and a player at any level can make use of this guitar.”

On the act of playing guitar in general, Lifeson added: “Playing guitar takes you to that place in your heart and your soul to express yourself creatively and to just have fun, it is just fun to play,...

Stars: Allan Hawco, Emily Alatalo, Adam Kenneth Wilson, Wesley French, Natalie Brown, Mary Antonini, Alex Lifeson | Written by Nick Cutter, Ian Weir | Directed by Rodrigo Gudiño

The Breach, not to be confused with Breach, is the second feature from Rue Morgue founding editor Rodrigo Gudiño (The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh). Co-written by Nick Cutter and Ian Weir based on Cutter’s novel, its mix of haunted house and mad scientist themes attracted a lot of pre-release buzz which I was hoping it would live up to.

John Hawkins has one week left as sheriff of Lone Crow. Then he can put the town, and his ex Meg, behind him and start a new job in the city. That, of course, means something terrible has to happen before he can leave. And it does when a canoe bearing the mutilated remains of theoretical physicist Cole Parsons washes up at a local park.

The Breach is an upcoming Lovecraftian horror film from director Rodrigo Gudiño, the founder of Rue Morgue Magazine and the director of The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh. An exclusive clip of the film has been provided to us courtesy of Fangoria, which you can watch below. Before you do, you might also want to check out this plot synopsis.

“Counting down his last days as Chief of Police in the tiny town of Lone Crow, John Hawkins must investigate one last case when a mangled body with uncanny wounds washes up on the shores of the Porcupine River.”

The Audible original audiobook the film is based on also provides us with a few more details.

“Hawkins and coroner Jacob Littlecorn suspect the disfigured body is that of theoretical physicist Graham Raphelson, also known as the 'molecular madman of Trinity College,' who recently disappeared. The two investigators enlist Meg Gilday,...

The Breach is an upcoming Lovecraftian horror film from director Rodrigo Gudiño, the founder of Rue Morgue Magazine and the director of The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh. An exclusive clip of the film has been provided to us courtesy of Fangoria, which you can watch below. Before you do, you might also want to check out this plot synopsis.

“Counting down his last days as Chief of Police in the tiny town of Lone Crow, John Hawkins must investigate one last case when a mangled body with uncanny wounds washes up on the shores of the Porcupine River.”

The Audible original audiobook the film is based on also provides us with a few more details.

“Hawkins and coroner Jacob Littlecorn suspect the disfigured body is that of theoretical physicist Graham Raphelson, also known as the 'molecular madman of Trinity College,' who recently disappeared. The two investigators enlist Meg Gilday,...

The Breach: "Counting down his last days as Chief of Police in the tiny town of Lone Crow, John Hawkins must investigate one last case when a mangled body with uncanny wounds washes up on the shores of the Porcupine River."

Directed by: ​​Rodrigo Gudiño Screenplay by: Ian Weir, Craig Davidson, Based on “The Breach” by Nick Cutter Cinematographer: Eric Oh Music By: Slash Producers: Pasha Patriki, Andrew Thomas Hunt, Michael Paszt Executive Producers: Slash, Jacquelyn Frisco, Gregor Habsburg, Allan Hawco, James Fler Production Company: Raven Banner & Hangar18 Distribution Company: Trinity Creative Partnership Cast: Allan Hawco, Emily Alatalo (Spare Parts), Natalie Brown, Mary Antonini (Revenge Delivered), Wesley French, Adam Kenneth Wilson and Alex Lifeson (best known as the guitarist for Rush) Runtime: 92 Minutes

Available July 11, 2023 (Digital and VOD)

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"They are opening the gates to hell here!" Trinity Creative Partnership and Raven Banner have revealed an official US trailer for an indie horror creation called The Breach, adapted from the novel by Nick Cutter. This premiered at Fantasia, FrightFest, Night Visions, and the Monsters of Film Horror Film Festivals last year - with a VOD release coming up soon this summer. Counting down his last days as Chief of Police in the tiny town of Lone Crow, John Hawkins must investigate one last case when a mangled body with uncanny wounds washes up on the shores of the Porcupine River. Described as "gory, cosmic horror" it's made by the founder of Rue Morgue Magazine, Rodrigo Gudiño, directing his second feature. Featuring music by Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash (who's also an executive producer), the film stars Allan Hawco, Emily Alatalo, Natalie Brown, Mary Antonini, Wesley French, Adam Kenneth Wilson,...

Rush singer-bassist Geddy Lee will release his autobiography, titled My Effin’ Life, on November 14th of this year via Harper Collins. The title and release date were recently unveiled on his social media accounts, and the book is now available for pre-order via Amazon.

Lee first broke news of his autobiography in a September 2021 Instagram post, saying he was motivated to write begin writing the book during the pandemic and following bandmate Neil Peart’s passing.

“My friend and collaborator on the Big Beautiful Book of Bass, Daniel Richler, saw how I was struggling in the aftermath of Neil’s passing, and tried coaxing me out of my blues with some funny tales from his youth, daring me to share my own in return,” wrote Lee at the time.

The Rock & Roll Hall of Famer continued, “So I did — reluctantly at first, but then remembering, oh yeah, I like wrestling with words.

Origins is a recurring series giving artists a space to break down everything that went into their latest release. Today, Michael Goldwasser of Easy Star All-Stars digs into their cover of David Bowie’s “Moonage Daydream.”

Reggae group Easy Star All-Stars have released a new cover of David Bowie’s “Moonage Daydream,” which features Alex Lifeson of the rock band Rush. The new single is part of their upcoming album, Ziggy Stardub, a reggae reinvention of Bowie’s The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders from Mars.

The mesmerizing rendition strips the gritty sound of the original, leaving a slick and sultry cover in its place. Lifeson closes out the track with an ethereal guitar solo, while Naomi Cowan’s vocals flow through the chilled track, blending his celestial guitar stylings seamlessly. Perfectly balancing an aura of psychedelic and reggae, the essence of Bowie’s classic sci-fi...

Drake is racking up accolades for his lyrical talent.

On Monday night, the Canadian rapper was awarded Songwriter of the Year in the Performer category at the 2022 Socan Awards.

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Along with the songwriting honour, the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada also awarded Drake for his singles “Wants and Needs,” which features Lil Baby, and “Way 2 Sexy”, his collaboration with Future and Young Thug.

Yukon’s Stephen Kozmeniuk received the Producer category award for Songwriter of the Year, in part for his involvement in Dua Lipa’s smash “Levitating”, which also won the International Song Award.

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Meanwhile, Vancouver’s bbno took him Breakout Songwriter. Other honourees included Allison Russell and Tom Cochrane, the latter of whom received a tribute in the form...

Miley Cyrus is sharing a special remembrance of the late Taylor Hawkins, who died at age 50 earlier this year.

Cyrus took to Twitter to share a brief voicemail she was left by the Foo Fighters drummer, who was also her neighbour.

Read More: Miley Cyrus Fills In For Foo Fighters At Lollapalooza Brazil, Dedicates Show To Taylor Hawkins

“Miley, it’s Taylor. Heard you’re moving — waah!” Hawkins says in the recording, mock crying over the prospect of losing Cyrus as a neighbour.

“I’m listening to ‘Photograph’ by Def Leppard,” Hawkins adds. “You could kill that one.”

A personal request from the legend himself. #TaylorHawkins my friend, my idol…. My neighbor. Growing up on a farm I never could see the light of another house nearby, but living by Taylor for the years that I did out in LA were some of the most fun times of my life.

Many of music’s biggest lights came out to shine in the name of Taylor Hawkins.

On Monday night, the late drummer’s Foo Fighter bandmates held another memorial concert in Los Angeles, featuring performances by Miley Cyrus, Pink, and many more.

Read More: Dave Grohl Breaks Down In Tears Performing At Taylor Hawkins Tribute Show: ‘A Gigantic F**king Night For A Gigantic F**king Person’

Cyrus teamed up with classic English rock band Def Leppard for a rendition of their 1983 smash “Photograph”.

Miley and Def Leppard! pic.twitter.com/9zjr5Aldmy

— Jonathan Cohen (@brainofjoacohen) September 28, 2022

Pink, meanwhile, performed with Queen and Foo Fighters, singing “Somebody to Love”.

Pink with Queen and Foo Fighters pic.twitter.com/2yAFZaa6ZX

— Jonathan Cohen (@brainofjoacohen) September 28, 2022

She and the Foo Fighters also got together with Nancy Wilson for a performance of the classic “Barracuda”.

Pink with Nancy Wilson and the Foos for “Barracuda”#TaylorHawkinsTribute pic.

Foo Fighters are in the midst of honoring their late drummer Taylor Hawkins with a tribute concert in Los Angeles at Kia Forum on Tuesday, Sept. 27. The lineup includes a bevy of Hawkins’ musician friends, some of whom performed at their tribute to him in London earlier in the month.

But before the festivities got underway, the band addressed the audience. “This is the hometown shit, so you gotta make it loud,” the Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl said. “What we really wanted to do was to pay tribute to...

Taylor Hawkins’ son Shane performed with Foo Fighters to deliver an emotional rendition of “My Hero” Saturday at the London tribute concert in honor of his late father.

On a night where the Foo Fighters employed a “revolving door” of all-star drummers — Travis Barker, Josh Freese, Rufus Taylor, Nandi Bushell, Omar Hakim and more — during their Wembley Stadium set, the final drummer of the evening was, fittingly, Hawkins’ 16-year-old son, who has long followed in his father’s footsteps behind the kit.

“Ladies and gentlemen, we have one more drummer...

Taylor Hawkins was sunshine incarnate. The late Foo Fighters drummer – also a songwriter, singer and multi-instrumentalist – had an unrivalled sense of positivity and joie de vivre. His megawatt smile could power a stadium show all of its own.

The first of two tribute concerts to Hawkins, who died aged 50 in March this year, does its utmost to summon that same energy. Gathered here at Wembley Stadium are some of Hawkins’s closest friends – the surviving Foos members, of course – family, collaborators and admirers, for a six-hour marathon of a show. Understandably, the mood that fills the 80,000-capacity venue is a strange one. Hawkins’s favourite songs are played ahead of the late-afternoon start time – Abba, Elo, George Michael – but no one feels like dancing just yet.

Foos frontman Dave Grohl arrives on stage with the band to a deafening roar; it’s a few minutes before the cheering stops and...

Paul McCartney, with help from Chrissie Hynde and Foo Fighters, performed the Beatles classic “Oh! Darling” live for the first time Saturday at the Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concert in London.

McCartney was a surprise guest at the benefit concert — he was not listed among the participating artists prior to the show — but what he did on the Wembley Stadium stage was perhaps an even bigger shock to the audience, as McCartney had never sang the Abbey Road ballad live onstage before.

Sir Paul McCartney, Chrissie Hynde y los Foo Fighters haciendo "Oh,...

Foo Fighters will stage the first of their two Taylor Hawkins tribute concerts today, Sept. 3 at London’s Wembley Stadium.

The Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concert, presented by Foo Fighters and the late drummer’s family, will begin 11:30 a.m. Est and be streamed live on Paramount+ and MTV’s YouTube channel; the livestream can also be viewed in the video above.

Additionally, a one-hour primetime special featuring highlights from the show will air on CBS later today at 10 p.m. Est, while the full show will be available to...

Dave Grohl and the other surviving members of Foo Fighters will pay tribute to their late drummer Taylor Hawkins in an all-star live concert on Saturday, Sep. 3. Hawkins died unexpectedly at age 50 in Bogotá, Colombia in March.

Among the music legends who are gathering to honor Hawkins are Led Zeppelin’s John Paul Jones, Rush’s Geddy Lee, Chrissie Hynde, Liam Gallagher, Krist Novoselic of Nirvana, as well as drumming prodigy Nandi Bushell, who sat in for Hawkins after winning a “drum off” with Foo Fighters frontman (and former Nirvana drummer) Grohl.

A separate tribute concert in Los Angeles on Sep. 27 at the Kia Forum in Inglewood is sold out.

Here’s everything you need to know about when and where to watch it and who else is performing.

When Is the Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concert?

The event is happening Saturday, Sep. 3 at Wembley Stadium in London.

Is “The Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concert” Streaming?...

Sports Broadcasting trailblazer and award-winning Talk Show Host Ann Liguori will be hosting her 24th Annual Ann Liguori Foundation (Alf) Charity Golf Classic on Thursday, September 22nd, 2022, at the Maidstone Club in East Hampton, N.Y.

Alex Lifeson, Hall of Fame Guitarist, Rush

The annual charity outing benefits not-for-profits that work in the field of cancer research and care including the Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and East End Hospice.

Dan Pontecorvo, Global Director of Real Estate & Engineering, Jane Street Capital, is the 2022 Alf Business Honoree, and Alex Lifeson, Hall of Fame Guitarist, Rush, will accept the 2022 Alf Music Honoree Award at the Award’s Dinner that evening.

Sponsors for the annual event are Abm, Structure Tone, Platinum, and Tommy & Shounda Foster. Donors for the charity tournament include Dooney & Bourke, DunDonald Links, Dunning Apparel, Dune Jewelry & the Hamptons Rope Collection, Eye King, French Pool Toy Wine,...

“The Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concert” will honor the late Foo Fighters drummer and stream live on Paramount+ in the U.S. and globally on Youtube on Friday, Sep. 3, Bob Bakish, President and CEO of Paramount announced Wednesday.

The concert will be held at Wembley Stadium in London, with performances from the Foo Fighters, Hawkins’ son Shane, drumming prodigy Nandi Bushell and a who’s who of rock ‘n’ roll drummers, including Travis Barker of Blink-182, Stewart Copeland of The Police fame, and Metallica’s Lars Ulrich.

“Music is a powerful connector, and we are honored to commemorate Taylor Hawkins’ enduring legacy by bringing together Paramount’s portfolio of brands and assets to build even deeper connections with his global fan base,” said Bakish in a statement shared with TheWrap.

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