That time I asked Kick Axe guitarist Larry Gillstrom what he thought of the Vancouver metal scene in 1988

Today I went searching around in my stash of cassettes to see if I had any interviews with late Kick Axe guitarist Larry Gillstrom on tape.

Remembering Larry Gillstrom, Kick Axe guitarist and passionate purveyor of Canadian metal

Shocked and saddened to hear last night about the recent passing of Larry Gillstrom, a legend of the Canadian heavy-metal scene.

Yesterday I wrote a blog complaining that I couldn't stand the new Aerosmith song, which had just been released as a crappy video.

There was a lot of talk in the last year or so about how the band's next album was going to be a return to its early, no-frills rock sound.

Screening at the VIFF Centre on Friday of director Amy Berg's new music documentary It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley.

I interviewed Weezer guitarist Brian Bell in April of 2002, shortly before the release of the "geek-rock" band's fourth album, Maladroit.

You may recall Texas blues-rockers Omar and the Howlers from the album they released in 1987, Hard Times in the Land of Plenty.

Barbarians writer-director Zach Creggar's new horror flick Weapons opens on Friday at various Vancouver theatres.

I interviewed porn star-turned-blues rocker Candye Kane back in February of 2003, when she was headed to Vancouver for a gig at the Yale pub.

I always thought that the theme song from TV's King of the Hill was one of the best damn TV theme songs ever created.

Remember how you'd set the needle down on the opening track of a new rock album and the very first tune would just blow you the funk away?

Screening at the Rio on Wednesday of blur: Live at Wembley Stadium, director Toby L's concert film that captures the Britpop quartet in 2023.

A couple of years back I posted a blog on the songwriting genius of Mike Cooley, and mentioned four of the tunes that I love most of his.