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2112 in 5.1

Rush’s seminal 1976 release gets the deluxe surround sound treatment from 5.1-mixing maven Richard Chycki.
- By Mike Mettler
- Posted January 25, 2013
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This one's been 36 years in the making — or you could call it 100 years ahead of schedule, depending on how you look at it. I’m talking about the DTS-HD Master Audio 96-kHz/24-bit 5.1 Blu-ray version of it’s-about-time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Rush’s 1976 epic 2112 (Anthem/Mercury).

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Rush Returns With Clockwork Angels

The prog superheroes return, with their first new material in five years (and their first indie release)
- By Michael Berk
- Posted April 11, 2012
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Rush fans...the moment you've all been waiting for has arrived. Not quite like clockwork, but Clockwork Angels is finally and definitely headed your way.

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Rush Signs to . . . Roadrunner

The World's Biggest Cult Band Goes Indie
- By Michael Berk
- Posted August 31, 2011
In a sign of the times for the changing music industry (and an interesting twist in the lengthy tale of the most popular band — 40 million albums sold worldwide and 11 Stateside top tens — to only make it into Rolling Stone magazine once), Canadian prog superheroes Rush have signed with U.S. metal indie Roadrunner (they'll be staying with Anthem/Universal in Canada only).

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Rush: Live Pictures

Rush moves and shakes at the Garden.
- By Mike Mettler
- Posted April 11, 2011
“We’ve got about 6,000 songs to play for you tonight,” Geddy Lee said to raucous cheers during the first set break at Rush’s return to Madison Square Garden last night.

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Rush’s Fountain of Surround, Part 2: Moving Predictions

Surround-sound remix master Richard Chycki on what he’d like to do next in 5.1 from the Rush catalog.
- By Mike Mettler
- Posted April 5, 2011
“It’s a timeless record with so much detail,” says surround-sound remix guru Richard Chycki about Rush’s 1981 masterpiece, Moving Pictures. “I’m glad you’ve clued into all of the nuances.” Chycki is referring to what I said to him last week about the PCM 5.1 and DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 mixes he did for MP’s 30th anniversary reissue.

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Rush: The Fountain of Surround

Exclusive! Chronicling Rush’s decade-long journey toward embracing the 5.1 format—even for catalog studio material
- By Mike Mettler
- Posted April 4, 2011
In anticipation of the 30th anniversary reissue of Rush’s truly seminal Moving Pictures as both CD+DVD (April 5) and CD+BD (May 3) deluxe editions, with PCM 5.1 and DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 surround-sound mixes by Richard Chycki, I’m dipping into my personal Rush interview archive to present a truly exclusive, incremental look at how the band’s attitude toward bringing its vaunted studi

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Cover Flow: Whither the iPad Album?
- By Michael Berk
- Posted March 23, 2011
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Lovin' the LP: my first weekend with PerspeX
- By sandv blog
- Posted April 28, 2009
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"YYZ": Heroic Guitarist or "Guitar Hero"?
- By sandv blog
- Posted September 18, 2007
My older son, Paul, is kinda bummed that he wasn't able to go with me to Rush's American tour finale last night at Madison Square Garden. Seems he was especially eager to hear "YYZ."

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Bach to the Future
- By sandv blog
- Posted July 12, 2007
"It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself." —Johann Sebastian Bach

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Rush Rattles PNC
- By sandv blog
- Posted July 9, 2007
Saw the second of three Rush shows I'm gonna catch on the 2007 tour last night at the PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel, NJ. Had on (naturally) a Porcupine Tree shirt and promptly sweated through it in the 90+degree heat. Ugh.

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Rush Takes Jones Beach
- By sandv blog
- Posted July 3, 2007
Saw my boys Rush at the Jones Beach Theater on Long Island last night. (Oh, sorry, NIKON at Jones Beach Theater.) The Toronto trio were in fine form, despite the typical “windy” Jones Beach acoustics. That’s the price you pay for being at an outdoor venue that’s on the water.

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