Newt’s top 10 things to do in Vancouver this weekend, May 8 to 10

Author Chris Walter launches his latest punk-rock manifesto, Born Too Loose, at LanaLou's, with music by GNAR GNARS, Squidz, and Trollop.

Lou Reed gets high on his Ecstasy in Vancouver, keeps the rock ‘n’ roll animal muzzled

A couple of weeks ago I picked up a newly remastered copy of Rock 'n' Roll Animal, because it's one of the best live albums ever released.

xophersmith photo ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON JUNE 20, 2007 By Steve Newton When I track down slide-guitar virtuoso Derek Trucks at an L.A. hotel, he's just checked in for a few gigs with his wife, acclaimed blues vocalist Susan Tedeschi. They're four shows into their Soul Stew Revival tour, which sees the couple performing select tunes … Continue reading Derek Trucks says that making it onto Rolling Stone’s “100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time” list isn’t really what he’s shooting for

Whether you're in favour of Expo 86 or not, you have to admit that Jimmy Pattison and company have not skimped when it comes to live music.

Screening at the Park Theatre on Friday of a 4K restoration of director Robin Hardy's 1973 folk-horror classic, The Wicker Man.

Top-billed David Boreanaz shows up here and there to sleepwalk through his role as an alcoholic sportswriter and get kneed in the nuts.

I interviewed Godsmack guitarist Tony Rombola when the Boston alt-metal band was touring behind its fifth studio album, IV.

George Harrison wrote some incredible songs for the Beatles, but this Top 20 only includes his non-Beatles tunes.

American slide guitarist and one-man blues-punk band Bob Log III plays the Biltmore on May 30, with guests Caveman & the Banshee.

As a kid growing up in a tiny, isolated community 45 minutes from Seattle, Brandi Carlile had to work to keep herself entertained.

"Ya gotta hear that coughin' at the beginning of 'Sweet Leaf' to know what I'm talkin' about. We're talkin' B.C. bud, brother! Can't wait!"

On Saturday at VIFF Centre guitarist-composer Tony Wilson’s The Homeless Project shines a sympathetic light on Canada’s urban dispossessed.

Hailing from Florida, the members of the Red Jumpsuit Apparatus have an ingrained sympathy for victims of natural disasters.