Newt’s top 10 Vancouver concerts to check out in April 2026

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

The Marble Index sends a warning to parents with Watch Your Candles, Watch Your Knives

“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.

I interviewed Canadian musician Ian Blurton back in September of 2005, when he was touring with his rowdy riff-rock band C'mon.

I was surfing YouTube last night and discovered a concert video from 1978 of Ronnie Montrose when he was touring behind his album Open Fire.

I interviewed Godsmack guitarist Tony Rombola back in 2006, when the Boston alt-metal band was touring behind its fifth studio album, IV.