The Answer wins critical praise while proudly carrying the torch of Irish guitar-rock

Three months ago, Answer vocalist Cormac Neeson was asked by an L.A. music mag which band he would most like to tour the States with.

Newt’s top 10 things to do in Vancouver this weekend, July 17 to 19

American stoner-metal band Corrosion of Conformity plays the Rickshaw Theatre on Friday, with guests Whores and Crobot.

I interviewed American country singer-songwriter Allison Moorer when she was promoting her sixth album, Mockingbird.

While making the rounds of open-mike nights in London, the 22-year-old tunesmith happened to befriend actor-singer Robert Pattinson.

Some musicians don’t have much time for other people’s material because they’re way too wrapped up in their own. Not Randy Bachman.

"At the end of the day we’re just about supporting [the troops] when they go, and definitely when they come back home.”

Screenings at the VIFF Centre on Friday and Sunday of Dazed and Confused, director Richard Linklater's coming-of-age comedy set in 1976.

Here's a tip for aspiring music journalists: think twice before you call an old bluesman at his hotel after 10 p.m.

I did my fourth interview with Rob Halford two weeks before Judas Priest released Nostradamus, the band's first concept album.

That song just totally got me. There’s something about the swagger to it that reminds me of my childhood and my parents."

Back in May of 2008 I interviewed Coheed and Cambria guitarist Travis Stever when the prog-rock band was touring behind its fourth album.

Canadian roots-rock singer-songwriter and guitarist Emmett Jerome plays the Fox Cabaret on Friday, with guests the Shane Terry Band.

“She's got the flint and she's got the steel," says Gurf Morlix of Romi Mayes, "everything she needs to take her where she wants to go.”