That time I asked Alice Cooper if the monumental, no-filler Killer was his favourite Alice Cooper album

I did my fifth interview with Alice Cooper in September of 2005, when he was touring behind his 17th solo album, Dirty Diamonds.

New Monsoon guitarist Jeff Miller figures his band is a little more on the rock side of the jam-band spectrum

"We're probably a little more on the rock side of [the jam-band] spectrum, but we have a touch of bluegrass in there somewhere."

At the 2005 East Coast Music Awards Nathan Wiley's sophomore CD, High Low, took the prize for alternative recording of the year.

Vancouver bluesman Robert Connely Farr performs a free show at the Princeton Pub, along with local rock acts Good as Gone and the Fraser Arms.

In recent press clippings, Blurton has revealed that C'mon takes its power-trio heritage from such threesomes as ZZ Top, Nirvana, and Budgie.

When you hear the Holmes Brothers, you can tell right off that the gospel-blues trio have been tight for ages.

For a crash course in how heavily the Atomic Bitchwax is indebted to the superstars of the '70s, check out Track 5 from the trio's new CD, 3.

I did my third interview with Zakk Wylde when his band Black Label Society was touring behind its sixth studio album, Mafia.a

Jones describes the music on Never Too Loud as more melodic than his previous three CDs, and more of a nod to some classic-rock acts.

Vancouver rock 'n' roll legend Rich Hope plays the Rickshaw Theatre on February 20, with guests Janky Bungag and Runner.

"I used to listen to metal as a teenager, and I felt like revisiting it, in particular Slayer. That first Slayer record is really good."

When I call Adam Renshaw up the drummer for the Forty-Fives is cruising through Sacramento in his band's van, enjoying a game of Scrabble.

Back in the summer of 1986 I traveled to Australia and happened to see Midnight Oil kicking butt at a Melbourne-area pub called Fosters.