The Junos don’t suck for five minutes as Rush gets back to its metal roots with “Finding My Way”

Being mainly a rock and blues fan, the mainstream Canadian pop acts normally celebrated by the Junos don't really turn my crank.

That time I asked Steve Vai if playing guitar with Billy Gibbons made him want to slow down a bit

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

Nathan Wiley was 20 years old the first time he moved away from his home in Summerside, P.E.I., setting his sights on Vancouver.

Multiplatinum jazz-pop singer and pianist Diana Krall performs downtown at the Orpheum Theatre on April 22.

“If you think your children are getting into the dark spirits you’re supposed to literally watch your candles, watch your knives.”

"The main difference is that on the second album all four of us are writing tunes, and all four of us are singing.”

I interviewed Joe Gooch three years after he replaced Alvin Lee as the guitarist-vocalist for legendary blues-rock band Ten Years After.

New Jersey instrumental pop band Delicate Steve, featuring guitarist Steve Marion, plays the Biltmore Cabaret on Sunday.

I interviewed Trailer Park Boys director Mike Clattenburg in September of 2006, one week before the release of Trailer Park Boys: The Movie.

One of my favourite prog-metal albums of all time is Operation: Mindcrime, released by Queensrÿche in the Year of Our Metal Lord, 1988.

The Golden Dogs’ faithful rendition of “Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five” ends with a frenzied Telecaster wipeout by Dave Azzolini.

Detroit psychobilly trio the Koffin Kats play the Cobalt on Saturday, with guests Billy and the Parole Models and the Cryptyds.

My metal-lovin' nephew Jeff took me to see Black Label Society last night, but I came away as more of a diehard Zakk Sabbath fan.