Newt’s top 10 things to do in Vancouver this weekend, July 24 to 26

Screening at the VIFF Centre on Friday of Michael Mann's 1995 crime-thriller Heat, about an L.A. detective on the trail of a career thief.

That time 21-year-old “local nobody” Devin Townsend sent a letter to the paper I wrote for

I interviewed Devin Townsend for the second time back in 1993, shortly after he'd hooked up with Steve Vai for the Sex & Religion album.

When I reach Darren Glover on his cellphone, he’s in a van on a highway approaching Sault Ste. Marie, and the snow has just started to fly.

I interviewed Randy Bachman for the second time in January of 2009, when he was preparing to play a show at Vancouver's Commodore Ballroom.

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.

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.