Canuck rock legend Randy Bachman loves his “amazing and silly” role of deejay on Randy’s Vinyl Tap

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.

Drowning Pool guitarist C.J. Pierce says that his band’s music gets the U.S. troops pumped up in Iraq

"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.

That song just totally got me. There’s something about the swagger to it that reminds me of my childhood and my parents."

Back in May of 2008 I interviewed Coheed and Cambria guitarist Travis Stever when the prog-rock band was touring behind its fourth album.

Canadian roots-rock singer-songwriter and guitarist Emmett Jerome plays the Fox Cabaret on Friday, with guests the Shane Terry Band.

“She's got the flint and she's got the steel," says Gurf Morlix of Romi Mayes, "everything she needs to take her where she wants to go.”

"There is an intensity to it, but it's not metal in the sense that it's all doom and destruction. And I don't sing like the Cookie Monster."

To get a good idea of where Derek Trucks's head is at musically, all you have to do is check out the autographs on his red Gibson SG.

Canadian blues-rock singer-songwriter and guitarist Sue Foley performs at the Rio Theatre on Thursday, July 16.

Last night the Tedeschi Trucks Band delivered a funkified, soul-heavy, blues-based blast for the ages at the sold-out Queen E. Theatre.