On a glorious sunny winter weekend afternoon, the hardest-working man in rock ’n’ roll is hunkered down in his home studio to edit a podcast. Terry …

At the stroke of midnight, as Friday turned into Saturday on Aug. 11, 2001, Vancouver rock band The Beans began a concert at The Sugar Refinery on …

There’s a bootleg recording of Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros in Tokyo on January 18, 2000, just after the World Cup. Football⁠—soccer, to us⁠—was …

The first time I noticed the Jimi Hendrix Shrine, my reaction was probably similar to many others. Aw, that’s cute, I thought. Most fans get silly …

For music fans, the number of notable names dropped in Vancouver author Aaron Chapman‘s Live at the Commodore: The Story of Vancouver’s Historic …

This story is the second part of a two-part series on the legendary Vancouver live music venue the Cave. Read the first part here. No Fun, the …

My late father, Larry MacInnis, didn’t have too many “brush with celebrity” stories. Once, he unintentionally heckled the Everly Brothers (which …

On radios around the world in that whimsical pop music year of 1964, one song sounded like no other.It opened with a sad, slow horn. After a few …

Grimes. Michael Bublé. Carly Rae Jepsen. Dan Mangan. Many big musical names come out of the vicinity of Vancouver. But, alongside the headliners, …