RUSH debuts new drummer Anika Nilles at the JUNOs

RUSH performed "Finding My Way" with new drummer Anika Nilles from Jeff Beck's group at The JUNOs in Hamilton. 

Watch the documentary about Toronto radio station CFNY: The Spirit Of Radio

Filmmaker Matt Schichter uses interviews with CFNY's staff – Dave Marsden, Ivar Hamilton, etc – and artists to chart the rise and fall of the influential radio station.   

Here's the scoop...

In 1976, CFNY launched in a small suburban house just north of Toronto and went on to become one of the most influential punk, new wave and alternative radio stations in the world. This is the story of their mission to bring the most exciting music in the world to the masses. It's also a story of the personalities, lawsuits, bankruptcies, concerts, and listener protests that went along with it.

Watch the Spirit Of Music documentary followed by an interview with Alan Cross who, along with Ivar Hamilton, came up with the idea of doing a movie about CFNY and an interview with director Matt Schichter about why key CFNY on-air personality Chris Sheppard wasn't interviewed for the film.   

 

Here are a few songs which will be familiar to CFNY listeners back in the day...

Geddy Lee zooms in with Conan O'Brien and Rush fan Jordan Schlansky

Check out Geddy Lee's recent chat about Rush's Moving Pictures album with Conan O'Brien and Jordan Schlansky. 

Watch Rush's Geddy Lee & Alex Lifeson join Blue Rodeo for Gordon Lightfoot Tribute

Geddy Lee & Alex Lifeson sang "The Way I Feel" with Blue Rodeo at the Gord Lightfoot Tribute at Massey Hall last night. 

Cheers to Geddy Lee on his 70th birthday!

Here's Geddy's chat with Dan Rather about his childhood in Newmarket and reminiscing with his Rush bandmate Alex Lifeson.  

That time Bob & Doug McKenzie hoser hysteria hit Toronto in 1981

SCTV's Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas launched their Bob & Doug album Great White North with a hoser parade down Yonge St. 

Before They Were Famous: Rush

Here's Rush with John Rutsey on drums, rocking out at Laura Secord Secondary in St. Catherines, Ontario back in 1974. 

Geddy Lee vs. Arthur Lee

Geddy Lee and Rush knocked out a fine version of Arthur Lee's ripper 7 & 7 Is recorded by Love in 1966.