Newt’s top 10 things to do in Vancouver this weekend, June 19 to 21

Late-night screening at the Rio of The Warriors, about a rag-tag gang from Coney Island forced to fight its way home from the Bronx.

Testament guitarist Eric Peterson has been playing the crap out of Rainbow’s Long Live Rock ‘n’ Roll

“I still go back and revisit a lot of ['70s rock]. The Frank Marino and Mahogany Rush records, the early Rush stuff like Hemispheres."

I interviewed Drive-By Truckers singer, songwriter, and guitarist Patterson Hood for the fourth time back in June of 2008.

Back in the late-'70s one of my fave things to do was throw the self-titled debut album by George Thorogood on the turntable and rock out.

Friday screening of Backrooms at the Park Theatre includes intro and post-show Q&A with editor Greg Ng and sound designer Eugenio Battaglia.

This September marks the 40th anniversary of the publication of IT, one of the Stephen King's best-loved horror novels.

Unfortunately, radio basically says to a lot of the listeners out there that what you hear is what music is.

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”.

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.

Canadian pop-rock supergroup Trans-Canada Highwaymen--featuring members from Odds, TPOH, Barenaked Ladies, and Sloan--plays the Commodore.

"Springsteen doesn't think we sound too much like him," says Fallon, "so nobody else should think that, either."

When James Blunt released his 2005 debut album, Back to Bedlam, no one expected it to sell a million copies--or 11 million.

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".