That time Susan Tedeschi said hi to Derek Trucks for me while he was driving her around Jacksonville

I interviewed Susan Tedeschi for the second time back in August of 2006, when she was promoting her fourth album, Hope and Desire.

Phantom Planet frontman Alex Greenwald has been getting back into metal lately

“I used to listen to metal as a teenager, and I felt like revisiting it, in particular Slayer. That first Slayer record is really good.”

Directors Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky spent the better part of three years working on the documentary Metallica: Some Kind of Monster.

I did my second interview with Cramps guitarist Poison Ivy when her psychobilly band was touring behind its Big Beat from Badsville album.

Last Wednesday I got the chance to cross singer-songwriter Marshall Crenshaw’s name off my bucket list of interviews I’ve wanted to do.

I interviewed North Mississippi Allstars guitarist-vocalist Luther Dickinson two months after the release of the band’s debut album.

There’s no doubt in my mind that “Sign of the Gypsy Queen” is April Wine’s best song. I don’t care if it’s a cover tune. That song rules.

I did my third interview with Ian Anderson when Jethro Tull was headed to Vancouver for a show at the Orpheum Theatre.

Turns out Colin was friends with Jim Fitzpatrick, the Irish artist who designed the covers of several Lizzy albums, and its iconic logo.

Very surprised and sorry to hear that American guitar legend Rick Derringer passed away yesterday (May 26) at the age of 77.

Late-night screening at the Rio Theatre on Friday of director Paul W.S. Anderson’s 1997 cult sci-fi/horror flick Event Horizon.

Vancouver rocker Bif Naked performs tunes from latest album, Champion, at the RIckshaw Theatre, with guests Fake Shark.

While prepping for my interview with Robben Ford I noticed in his Concord bio that he’d toured with George Harrison in the fall of 1974.