In the February 24th issue of Entertainment Weekly magazine Rush is mentioned. There's a feature called What You Don't Know About...The Flaming Lips on page 62. Item 4 states:

4. They Get a Rush From Rush
Taking a break, (Steven) Drozd and co-producer Dave Fridmann agree that Rush's sci-fi prog classic 2112 is a sweet candidate for a surround-sound remix. "That track 'Discovery.' where he finds the guitar by the waterfall, would sound cool whizzing around your head, says Drozd. Fridmann sends an IM to a friend at Rush's label, Universal. "My guy is looking into it," reports Fridmann. You heard it here first.

What's both funny and interesting about this is that Alex Lifeson mentioned this himself in a recent interview with Sound and Vision (he even mentions the "Discovery" track) when asked about remixing Rush's studio catalog in surround:

... It's something that I think we [the band] will discuss. I really love the format now. Surround is a great, uplifiting experience, and I think we have some records that we'd consider doing that way. Again, we haven't spoken about any of this yet. But on my own, I'm thinking something like 2112 is pretty obvious. We're coming up on the 30th anniversary of 2112 in 2006, so that might be interesting. For example, "Discovery" [Part III of the title track], has running water, and you could be sitting right by that little stream, you know .... It would be quite dramatic and dynamic.

Probably the safe thing to say is that I'm much more open to doing this as long as the integrity of the original content isn't messed with. ...

Hat tip goes to Counterparts member timrockstad for "discovering" this news.

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