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There's a new interview with Alex over at Billboard.com. He talks about the live album/dvd and the upcoming tour.

Lots of tidbits:

DVD in later summer/early fall. Shot in HD.

"We thought we should maybe revisit some older songs we're not playing currently or haven't been in the last little while. So we changed out a few songs in the set. We're gonna keep it loose and maybe kind of bounce back and forth."

New album news?

"I'm guessing that we're probably going to take a little bit of the break at the end of this tour," says Lifeson, who's been updating his Web site with a number of new features he hopes to roll out soon. "I don't see us really doing much in the way of any new material probably until the spring of next year, and then we'll see where we go."

The first single off of the new Snakes & Arrows Live CD will be Workin' Them Angels. It is currently available at the iTunes store, if you're into that sort of thing. It can also be found online in mp3 format if you poke around long enough in the right places.

The new two-CD live set, Snakes & Arrows Live">Snakes & Arrows Live, is due to be released on April 8, 2008.

Track list:

Disc One:

1. Limelight
2. Digital Man
3. Entre Nous
4. Mission
5. Freewill
6. Monkey Business
7. Larger Bowl
8. Secret Touch
9. Circumstances
10. Between the Wheels
11. Dreamline
12. Far Cry
13. Workin' Them Angels
14. Armor and Sword

Disc Two

1. Spindrift
2. The Way the Wind Blows
3. Subdivisions
4. Natural Science
5. Witch Hunt
6. Malignant Narcissism - Drum Solo
7. Hope
8. Distant Early Warning
9. The Spirit of Radio
10. Tom Sawyer
11. Encore
12. One Little Victory
13. A Passage to Bangkok
14. YYZ

The wait is over....except for the DVD version.

Yeah, it has been leaked. If you know where this sort of stuff turns up, you'll probably be able to find a copy. In a way, I'm surprised it took so long to appear.

There's a tiny clip of Spindrift up on Rush.com. Give it a listen!

Seem on Amazon: the DVD Audio version of Snakes & Arrows. According to the news:

The Rush Snakes & Arrows DVD-album comes in a deluxe box, and includes these 13 new songs in hi-resolution audio, the entire album in 5.1 surround sound, a video documentary on the making of the album, and more.

Sweet!

The latest version, with track times, making its way way around the internet:

1. Far Cry 05.21
2. Armor and Sword 06.36
3. Workin' them Angels 04.47
4. The Larger Bowl….04.07
5. Spindrift 05.24
6. The Main Monkey Business (instrumental) 06.01
7. The Way the Wind Blows 06.28
8. Hope (instrumental) 02.02
9. Faithless 05.31
10. Bravest Face 05.12
11. Good News First 04.51
12. Malignant Narcissism (instrumental) 02.17
13. We Hold On 04.13