Friday screening of Backrooms at the Park Theatre includes intro and post-show Q&A with editor Greg Ng and sound designer Eugenio Battaglia.
Stephen King’s IT gets the 40th anniversary treatment from Overlook Connection Press
This September marks the 40th anniversary of the publication of IT, one of the Stephen King's best-loved horror novels.
Dream Theater’s James LaBrie says there’s so much more to music than what the radio plays today
Unfortunately, radio basically says to a lot of the listeners out there that what you hear is what music is.
The Trews guitarist John-Angus MacDonald soaked up some of Ace Frehley’s mojo on tour
Opening for the former KISS picker has been inspiring for MacDonald, and has led to pointers on how to play the nifty solo from “Firehouse”.
John Butler’s fondness for slide guitar rings true on his trio’s new Grand National CD
When I ring up John Butler in Byron Bay, Australia, he sounds so relaxed that it’s hard to tell if he's even into talking or not.
Newt’s top 10 things to do in Vancouver this weekend, June 5 to 7
Canadian pop-rock supergroup Trans-Canada Highwaymen--featuring members from Odds, TPOH, Barenaked Ladies, and Sloan--plays the Commodore.
Brian Fallon doesn’t think New Jersey’s Gaslight Anthem sounds too much like Springsteen
"Springsteen doesn't think we sound too much like him," says Fallon, "so nobody else should think that, either."
British balladeer James Blunt says that he was only out to please himself on Back to Bedlam
When James Blunt released his 2005 debut album, Back to Bedlam, no one expected it to sell a million copies--or 11 million.
That time I asked John Fogerty which Creedence Clearwater Revival tune he was most proud of
When I talked to Fogerty in 2007 I told him that my fave CCR tunes of late were "Lookin' Out My Back Door" and "Have You Ever Seen the Rain".
40 years ago today Heavy Metal Parking Lot captured ’80s metal mania before a Judas Priest show
On May 31, 1986, Jeff Krulik and John Heyn drove into the parking lot at Capitol Centre in Landover, Maryland, and started videotaping.
Lenny Kravitz takes my call enroute to Brooklyn and says that lately he’s been listening to a lotta Miles (not Alannah Myles)
On the cover of Lenny Kravitz's new CD he's pictured in the back seat of a car while a white urban landscape blurs by in the rear window.
Newt’s top 10 Vancouver concerts to check out in June 2026
High Fade, a funk-infused, technically adept rock trio from Edinburgh, Scotland, plays the Biltmore Cabaret on Sunday, June 26.
Matt Mays + El Torpedo find a Terminal Romance with Thin Lizzy producer Chris Tsangarides
When it came time for Matt Mays + El Torpedo to record Terminal Romance, the Nova Scotia–spawned quartet didn’t mess around.