That time I asked Randy Bachman which band he was most proud of, the Guess Who or BTO

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.

The John Henrys’ Rey Sabatin thinks his band sounds more like the Byrds than Tom Petty

“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.

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.

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

“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."

Back in July of 2008 I met Odds singer-guitarist Craig Northey at an East Van practice space to talk about his band's new album, Cheerleader.

"I do Infidels then go smoke about four cigarettes, have a cup of coffee, and hit it with [Tom Cochrane]. So it's gonna be a gruelling tour."

Charlottetown’s Two Hours Traffic has an awesome knack for conjuring melodious pop gems like “Stuck for the Summer”.