Stone Sour guitarist Josh Rand admits that he’s just a musician, not a Tom Morello

"I’m a musician...not a politician. I think if you’re gonna make those comments, you need to pick up the torch and fully run with it."

Newt’s top 10 things to do in Vancouver this weekend, April 3 to 5

Sweet Queens of Chaos play the Biltmore Cabaret on Friday, along with Nitroglycerin, Jazzfrica, PHROG, and the New Mischiefs.

When blues-rocker Steve Marriner calls me to chat about his new CD, Going Up, he's dialing in from the northerly blues mecca of Whitehorse.

Being mainly a rock and blues fan, the mainstream Canadian pop acts normally celebrated by the Junos don't really turn my crank.

I interviewed Steve Vai back in September of 2003, when he was about to start a G3 Tour with Joe Satriani and Yngwie Malmsteen.

Nathan Wiley was 20 years old the first time he moved away from his home in Summerside, P.E.I., setting his sights on Vancouver.

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

“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.