There are lots of things rock nerds Rush do well, and among them is selling CDs, concert DVDs and other stuff. So there's no surprise that there's new "product" about to be released. Retrospective III is a sort of best of the last few albums, and is presumably the last of three similar releases. There's also a DVD that's part of the package that is made up of performances from the recent tour and videos made while Rush was with Atlantic. There's very little that's new here, save for a remix of a couple of songs. While Rush has released two studio albums since 2001, there have been at three concert DVDs, archive collections and a CD of covers.
I bring all of this up is that there is interesting, simmering news in Rushland. There is chatter that Rush may tour, again, in 2009. They toured lots in 2008 and 2007 in support of Snakes and Arrows, including a great show at the Brandt Centre in Regina. The scuttlebutt comes with speculation over what Rush will do now that it has left Atlantic and has plans to begin anew with Rounder. A statement made to an interviewer last year by guitarist Alex Lifeson has fan sites buzzing over whether the band will release songs as they record them and then offer them for sale only online.
I really don't know anything else other than what I've read online, but it is all interesting -- of course, if you're a Rush nerd.
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