Rush kicked off the 2026 Juno Awards with their first dwell efficiency in over 11 years, and their first because the 2020 loss of life of longtime drummer and lyricist Neil Peart.
You may watch the newly reconfigured band – that includes founding bassist and singer Geddy Lee, guitarist Alex Lifeson and newly recruited drummer Anika Nilles and keyboardist Loren Gold – carry out “Discovering My Approach” under.
“Discovering My Approach” was the lead monitor on Rush’s 1974 self-titled debut album.
After over 4 a long time and 18 studio albums collectively Peart, Lee and Lifeson made their final dwell look collectively in Los Angeles on Aug. 1, 2015 on the conclusion of their career-spanning R40 tour.
Peart died 5 years later after a three-and-a-half-year battle with mind most cancers. “There’s no means Rush will ever exist once more, as a result of Neil’s not right here to be part of it,” Lifeson mentioned a yr later. “That’s to not say that we are able to’t do different issues, and we are able to’t do issues that profit our communities and all of that.”
In October of 2025, Lee and Lifeson introduced that they’d be reuniting for the Fifty One thing tour, which shortly expanded from a number of nights in a number of North American cities to an 86-date world tour.
“It’s been over 10 years since Alex and I’ve carried out the music of Rush alongside our fallen bandmate and good friend Neil. A lifetime’s price of songs that we had put our cumulative hearts and souls into writing, recording and taking part in collectively onstage,” the duo introduced on the time.
“And so, in spite of everything that has gone down since that final present, Alex and I’ve accomplished some severe soul looking and are available to the choice that we fucking miss it, and that it’s time for a celebration of 50-something years of Rush music.”
Rush’s Fifty One thing tour kicks off June 7, 2026 in Los Angeles, California.
Watch Rush Carry out on the 2026 Juno Awards
Rush Albums Ranked
We study Rush’s 19 studio albums, from 1974’s muscular self-titled launch to a sequence of outstanding late-career triumphs.
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