A commenter on radio message boards said it best: “From Rush to Rush!” As first reported by DCRTV, “105.9 The Edge” WVRX has switched formats from classic rock to a simulcast of sister station WMAL 630.

Back in my high school days — the early 1990s — young musicians who were picking up instruments and forming their first bands fell into one of two categories: Rush Lovers and Rush Haters. Standing shoulder-to-shoulder with the former, and like so many drummers who picked up sticks between the mid-’70s and mid-’90s, I spent countless hours in the basement learning the drum parts to Rush‘s many prog rock classics. While my tastes have changed since then, it was with that journalistic bias that I drove up to Baltimore last Friday to check in with bassist/vocalist Geddy Lee, guitarist Alex Lifeson and drummer Neil Peart as they played the 1st Mariner Arena in the band’s only area appearance on the second leg of its Time Machine Tour.

The Flaming Lips are at Merriweather Post Pavilion on Friday. MONDAY >> Justin Moyer performs as his alter-ego, Edie Sedgwick, tonight. The Three Stars alum’s shows are unusual to say the least, but also interesting: the Black Cat described her as “Le Tigre meets Black Flag for an irony-free dance party with a tranny Milton Berle as MC!” 9 p.m., $8. TUESDAY >> The Black Crowes are still kicking out the blues, covering older…

Local radio listeners who missed the front page of Saturday’s Washington Post were in for a rude awakening this morning. WTGB 94.7 “The Globe,” D.C.’s last classic rock station, changed formats today. The station is now called 94.7 Fresh FM, and offers contemporary pop music programming like Maroon 5, Kelly Clarkson and John Mayer. The Post’s story offers an appropriate lament for the demise of classic rock and further homogenization of the local radio…