Arkells rubbed shoulders with the Hip while making Michigan Left

"If you’re anybody of our age and you go camping in the summer there’s a good chance that the Hip are gonna be part of the playlist.”

That time I asked BTO’s Randy Bachman if Bruce Allen was the world’s best rock manager

I interviewed Canuck-rock legend Randy Bachman for the second time in 2009, when he was set to play a show at Vancouver's Commodore Ballroom.

The two singer-guitarists in Toronto alt-country act the Warped 45s go way back—and they should, since they’re first-cousins.

When I went for a walk in my North Delta 'hood today I came across a placard promoting next month's Terry Fox Run for cancer research.

Ryder Havdale made a name for himself on the Vancouver indie-rock scene with groups like Kids These Days and Second Narrows.

When I contact Tom Wilson at an Edmonton hotel, he’s feeling refreshed after an afternoon session of “adult nap time”.

When it came time to record their fourth studio album, Hope & Ruin, the Trews holed up at the Tragically Hip’s Bathouse.

I interviewed Randy Bachman for the second time in January of 2009, when he was preparing to play a show at Vancouver’s Commodore Ballroom.

“People say my voice sounds like Tom Petty's,” Sabatin admits, “but that's one thing I can't do anything about."

Hardcore fans of Stephen King are aware that he used the pen name Richard Bachman for a number of his early novels.

The roar of a chain saw is audible in the background when Canadian blues-rocker Rachelle van Zanten answers her cellphone.

When I reach Darren Glover on his cellphone, he’s in a van on a highway approaching Sault Ste. Marie, and the snow has just started to fly.

I interviewed Randy Bachman for the second time in January of 2009, when he was preparing to play a show at Vancouver's Commodore Ballroom.