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Mark Lepage
Mark Lepage is a veteran newspaper and magazine writer who matched his burgeoning literary skills with a devotion to and expertise in popular music, interviewing a who’s who of the rock world (Bono, Madonna, David Bowie, Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger, Lou Reed) as well as the leading lights of film (Robert De Niro, Meryl Streep) and literature (Martin Amis, Norman Mailer).
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“There has to be a party. Which is why there have to be as many inductees crammed in as groupies at a Mötley Crüe orgy.”
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“As she strides the globe in the 4-inch heels of total conquest, the question is raised: how much Taylor is… too much Taylor?”
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The best Rolling Stones album since Lady Gaga was a toddler.
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It wasn’t, obviously, all agony. But that press conference—it was a rare moment of placidity in a timeframe of incidents.
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Blur showcase the confident questioning of a band that knows who they are.
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In their latest calisthenic reinvention (is this U3? U7?), the band will launch the official opening of the Las Vegas MSG Sphere venue—and its own residency—in 2023 […]
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“That old funny-shaped bit of wood is still staring me in the face every day saying ‘Come on, you haven’t started yet!’ It’s infinite.” – Jeff Beck A rock’n’roll lifetime ago as a college student, before journalism chose me, I was parking cars in a gravel lot in a seamy section of Montreal, behind…
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The Taxman. That’s why. Exile On Main St., released on May 26, 1972, may or may not be the greatest Rolling Stones album, but it is undeniably the most Rolling Stones album the band has ever done. A gritty, grinding amalgam of everything that influenced them, it took running away from home to an entire…
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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” ― Oscar Wilde In heavy metal, as in any walk of life, nothing matters like identity. To know it, to be it, to own who you are, as the great rock’n’roll sage, Wilde, so profoundly observed. And you’d have thought Judas Priest would have owned that down to…
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He was home making lunch for the kid when the call came. “I was a stay-at-home dad,” says Ivan Doroschuk, of the baritone voice and dwarven video. “I’m in Victoria, B.C. (where he’s lived for 20 years) and the phone rings and it’s (Montreal promoter) Rubin Fogel. I hadn’t spoken to him for 10 years.…
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Downsizing. It’s not for everyone. While we’ve all been cocooning like hermits and stocking up on toilet paper to wait out the Great Endless Virus(es), our dear friends in The Billionaires Club have been killin’ it like villains. According to Fortune Magazine, while we were being furloughed and our fave bistro went broke, the world’s…
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Richard Reed Parry talks to PMA Magazine’s Mark Lepage about family, punk, and Arcade Fire. “I realized early on ‘I’m not like these other kids’,” Richard Reed Parry says. No. “They were not getting up at 5 a.m. on May Day morning to dance around the maypole and sing as the sun rises.” Yep, that’s…