Newt’s top 10 things to do in Vancouver this weekend, March 6 to 8

Late-night Catherine O'Hara tribute screening at the Rio on Friday of director Martin Scorsese's Kafkaesque 1985 black comedy After Hours.

Toronto tunesmith Jason Collett worked classic-rock influences into Here’s to Being Here

The annual South by Southwest festival is one of the primo events in rock ’n’ roll, and Toronto’s Jason Collett is an enthusiastic supporter.

I interviewed Steve Vai for the third time back in 2003, when he was about to start a G3 Tour with Joe Satriani and Yngwie Malmsteen.

I thought it might be coolly Canadian if Mahogany Rush opened for Rush when they got here. What a (double) rush that would be, right?

IMAX screenings at various Vancouver theatres of director Baz Luhrmann's new documentary EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert.

On his debut CD 24-year-old Liam Finn plays nearly every instrument on the disc and, apart from two cowritten tracks, penned all the music.

Ever been to a sold-out rock show where the crowd is on its feet the entire time, while you’re wondering what all the fuss is about?

You don't hear much about Matt Costa these days without hearing a bit about his good buddy Jack Johnson as well.

American protest singer and guitarist Jesse Welles plays the Commodore Ballroom on March 19, with guest S.G. Goodman.

Refusing to nominate legendary guitar heroes like Johnny Winter and Rory Gallagher, the Rock Hall opts to nominate various non-rockers.

"We're all huge Band fans, and I'm a big Dylan fan. So it was kinda cool to sort of pretend to be The Band, and he [Hayden] was Bob Dylan."

"When I play blues it's soothing, and it just puts your mind somewhere else, so that's been helping this a lot."

While prepping for my interview with Robben Ford I noticed in his Concord bio that he'd toured with George Harrison in the fall of 1974.