'Music' Archive
An Utterly Faithless Rush
A fantastic performance by Rush last night, July 23, 2007 at the Hollywood Bowl! Best Rush show ever for me. The Black Sun contingent at the ...
Rock Against Religion
Hundreds of music-lovers descended on one of the capital's tiniest suburbs at the weekend in support of an anti-religious rock concert. The 7-7-7 Rock Against Religion gig ...
Mother Dear
Over the past week, I found the song Mother Dear going through my head. I hadn't listened to it much since college, but there it was. ...
Far Cry
Now for some good news: The new Rush album Snakes and Arrows has completed recording and is scheduled for a May 8, ...
Rush ‘Saved’ Me (And My Kids)
So I had a little time while I was packing. I guiltily grabbed my headphones to listen to the prohibited music, all in the name of research, of course ;-) ...
Set It On Fire
A friend sent me this song, by a band called OSI, a Dream Theater side project. The group sampled a recording made by my mom Elizabeth Clare Prophet, in which ...
Church Upset by Madonna Tour
Madonna gets kudos from me for her courage to stand up against hypocrisy in religion and politics. But then she turns around ...
Vapor Trails
Vapor Trails was one of the most anticipated Rush releases ever. It is the Canadian trio's first album since "Test for Echo" (1996). ...
Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Progressive rock has always been pigeonholed by critics and masses alike as having belonged to another time. It's been called art-rock, album rock, even lumped into that catch-all dismissal: "dinosaur ...
Songs To Change the World
Every once in a while, I run across a song that states universal truths in a way that makes me stop and just say "Wow, if only everyone could hear, ...