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Alex Lifeson teaches Foo Fighters guitarist Chris Shiflett the solo to Rush classic Limelight

Shiflett's new podcast is off to a strong start

MusicRadar

Feast your eyes on Alex Lifeson’s stunning new Epiphone Les Paul signature, the Floyd Rose-equipped Custom Axcess

“It's stunning, it’s a really, really beautiful guitar,” says the Rush legend, but does it trump his previous Epiphone Les Paul Standard Axcess?

Guitar World

“This is a guitar for any level... It’s a wonderful platform” – Epiphone launches the Alex Lifeson Les Paul Custom Axcess

Lifeson's latest signature Axcess ships in Ruby with gold hardware and is packed with features: a Floyd Rose 1000 Series, coil-splitting, heel sculpting... Everything but the piezo

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Listen to Geddy Lee’s isolated bassline on Freewill. The Rush song Alex Lifeson said was their “most ambitious”

Geddy Lee: “One moment it’s heavy riffing and then you utilise the rhythm section verses the guitar”

Guitar World

30 beautiful acoustic guitar chords every player needs to know – and how to play them

Increase your musical vocabulary and expand your compositional horizons, in each and every key

Guitar World

"For a while, it was the worst song on the album…" The story behind Rush's Tom Sawyer

Inspired by old books and new technology, Tom Sawyer was the song that reinvented prog giants Rush – but it almost never made the album

Louder

Crown Lands: the duo ushering prog’s illustrious past into a magisterial future

Canadian hopefuls Crown Lands on the "mathiness" of modern prog, world building, indigenous rights, and sounding a LOT like Rush

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Envy Of None share animated video for That Was Then

Envy Of None, featuring Rush guitarist Alex Lifeson, have just released their That Was Then EP

Louder

Alex Lifeson says he first chose an ES-335 over the Les Paul for this reason

In a new clip with Gibson TV, the Canadian guitar legend has been discussing days spent haunting guitar stores before Rush made it big

Guitar World

Gibson appoints Elizabeth “Beth” Heidt as chief marketing officer as the brand’s senior leadership shakeup continues

Heidt has spent the past seven years at the Nashville-based guitar brand, and her appointment was met with approval from Celisse, Jared James Nichols and Alex Lifeson

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Crown Lands’ doubleneck devotee Kevin Comeau on his fearless guitar/bass multitasking, recording with Alex Lifeson’s acoustic and why Smashing Pumpkins’ Siamese Dream is a tonal benchmark

Comeau unpacks his multi-instrumentalist approach on the Rush disciples’ impossibly expansive sound, and explains just exactly where he got that super-cool doubleneck

Guitar World

Could Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson reunite for Rush's 50th anniversary next year?

Alex Lifeson's Envy of None band mate Andy Curran discusses the possibility of Lifeson and Geddy Lee working together again

Louder

Paul Gilbert names 12 guitarists who shaped his sound

The Mr. Big guitar hero reveals how his strap length influenced his technique, why hearing Yngwie Malmsteen down the phone inspired him to give fast picking one more try, and what he considers to be "one of the biggest scourges" of modern guitar playing

Guitar World

Rush's Signals celebrates its 40th birthday with an underwhelming party

Signals signalled the beginning of a whole new phase in Rush's career, but the anniversary edition falls well short

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Envy Of None return with new That Was Then EP

Envy Of None, featuring Rush guitarist Alex Lifeson, are rereleasing their self-titled debut album as a picture disc this week

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Try these 16 inspiring guitar chords that use open strings

Add some shimmer to your rhythm playing with open-string variations on simple chords

Guitar World

Kiss's Tommy Thayer names 11 guitarists who shaped his sound

The Spaceman offers his pick of the greatest riff-masters, salutes the player who invented the power chord and reveals the guitarist his bandmates compare him to (and it's not Ace Frehley)

Louder

"Geddy and Neil wanted to kill me. They were really upset": Alex Lifeson on the truth behind his infamous 'Blah Blah Blah' speech at Rush's Rock Hall induction

Alex Lifeson's speech as Rush were inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in 2013 has become legendary. But the guitarist's bandmates initially didn't see the funny side

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Members of Queen, the Police, Rush to honor Taylor Hawkins

The London-based tribute concert for Foo Fighters’ late drummer Taylor Hawkins will include Queen’s Brian May and Roger Taylor, Rush’s Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson, Pretenders frontwoman Chrissie Hynde, Oasis’ Liam Gallagher and comedian Dave Chappelle

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