Newt’s top 10 things to do in Vancouver this weekend, October 16 to 18

Global pop superstar Bruno Mars performs at BC Place as part The Romantic Tour, with guests Anderson.Paak as DJ Pee.Wee and Raye.

Heavy-metal pioneers Blue Cheer are back on the road and headed to Vancouver’s Town Pump

Way back in May of 1968, three heavy power-trios occupied the number nine, 10, and 11 spots on the Billboard album chart.

Just before Mr. Big was about to take the stage at Club Soda Monday, somebody phoned in a bomb threat to Vancouver police.

One of the most talked-about personnel changes in '80s hard rock was Sammy Hagar's replacing David Lee Roth as lead singer for Van Halen.

I gotta admit, I wasn't totally sure that I'd be loving Geoff Tate's concert at the Great Canadian Casino Vancouver last night.

Former Queensrÿche frontman Geoff Tate performs the band’s 1988 LP Operation: Mindcrime in its entirety at Great Canadian Casino Vancouver.

"I never really thought about being a big success. Hell, we could talk in two years and I could be playing the shittiest club in the world. "

The world is a scary place right now, what with all the wars, the threat of AI, and the possibility that the Republicans might stay in power.

I did my second interview with blues great Taj Mahal in April of 2013, when his trio was headed to Vancouver on a bill with Shemekia Copeland.

Memphis bluesman Alvin Youngblood Hart's affinity for underrated '70s-rockers Thin Lizzy is well documented.

Rhode Island indie-rock quartet Deer Tick performs tunes from new album Coin-O-Matic at the Hollywood Theatre on Sunday.

Vancouver's fave young blues-rocker had to travel all the way down to Tennessee to record the vocal and guitar parts for his next album.

In November of 2008 I called up the Answer vocalist Cormac Neeson in New Jersey, where his Irish hard-rock quartet was touring with AC/DC.