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Rock's Backpages is the world's most comprehensive online database of pop music writing, a unique resource unavailable elsewhere online. It contains an
ever-expanding collection of primary-source full-text articles from the music and mainstream press from the 1950s to the present day, along with a collection of
exclusive audio interviews.
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Rock's Backpages is the world's most comprehensive online database of pop music writing, a unique resource unavailable elsewhere online. It contains an
ever-expanding collection of primary-source full-text articles from the music and mainstream press from the 1950s to the present day, along with a collection of
exclusive audio interviews.
Subscriptions to Rock’s Backpages are available for institutional or personal use.
For institutions, Rock's Backpages is provided as an unlimited access subscription, meaning that all staff, students and library patrons have
unrestricted remote and on-site access to each text and audio file in the database. For full terms, please click here.
Please visit our Institutional Subscriptions page for further information and to arrange for a trial or quote.
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Welcome to the world's largest archive of music journalism, featuring over 50,000 articles on artists from Aaliyah to ZZ Top, with a new edition every Friday. Enter the library...
Reading the room: Barney Hoskyns sees the Smile live in Brighton. Plus MOJO's Nick Kent talks to Thom Yorke about The Eraser in 2006; Uncut's Rob Young hears about movie scores from Jonny Greenwood in 2011; and Magnet's Jacob Paul Nielsen witnesses the Smile in Detroit in late 2022.
Wipe Out: NME's Mark Sinker meets Butthole Surfers and survives a chaotic conversation about Texas, amphetamines, killer bees and Jimmy the Greek (1988).
Have you heard? Remembering Bruce Malamut (1952-2024) via his gonzoid reviews of ZZ Top's Tres Hombres (Zoo World, 1973) and Joni Mitchell's Court and Spark (Crawdaddy, 1974) ... plus his lower-case joint review of Little Feat's Last Record Album and Robert Palmer's Pressure Drop from 1976.
Rebel without a pause: Disc's Ray Fox-Cumming meets the ever-opinionated Steve Harley (1951-2024) in 1974 and the Mail on Sunday's Mal Peachey looks back with the Cockney Rebel star in 1993.
Reading the room: Barney Hoskyns sees the Smile live in Brighton. Plus MOJO's Nick Kent talks to Thom Yorke about The Eraser in 2006; Uncut's Rob Young hears about movie scores from Jonny Greenwood in 2011; and Magnet's Jacob Paul Nielsen witnesses the Smile in Detroit in late 2022.
Have you heard? Remembering Bruce Malamut (1952-2024) via his gonzoid reviews of ZZ Top's Tres Hombres (Zoo World, 1973) and Joni Mitchell's Court and Spark (Crawdaddy, 1974) ... plus his lower-case joint review of Little Feat's Last Record Album and Robert Palmer's Pressure Drop from 1976.
Rebel without a pause: Disc's Ray Fox-Cumming meets the ever-opinionated Steve Harley (1951-2024) in 1974 and the Mail on Sunday's Mal Peachey looks back with the Cockney Rebel star in 1993.
Wipe Out: NME's Mark Sinker meets Butthole Surfers and survives a chaotic conversation about Texas, amphetamines, killer bees and Jimmy the Greek (1988).
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