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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...
Let there be prog: Jerry Gilbert learns about the genesis of Genesis from frontman Peter Gabriel (Sounds, 1972) and John Swenson hears how the quintet took "courses in pretentiousness" at public school Charterhouse (Crawdaddy, 1974). Plus Nick Hasted looks back on the band's metamorphoses in 2014.
Major dudes will tell you: Walter Becker and Donald Fagen talk to Barney Hoskyns about the inception of Steely Dan, the duo's adopted Los Angeles, their improbable Grammy awards… and their new album Everything Must Go (March 2003).
He shall overcome: Dorian Lynskey, author of the new study of apocalyptic fantasy Everything Must Go, pays tribute to king of the radical folkies Pete Seeger in 2014, interviews Kendrick Lamar in 2015 and asks why pop stars fall for conspiracy theories in 2020. Plus the Oh God, What Now co-host guests on the RBP podcast in January 2020.
Serving the servants: Edwin Pouncey asks Steve Albini (1962-2024) how the sessions for Nirvana's In Utero are going in early 1993, Simon Reynolds talks to Steve about Big Black and the unfortunately-named Rapeman in 1992 and Ian Chiste hears about the legendary artist-producer's "ultramodern" new project Shellac in 1994. Plus NME's James Johnson asks MC5 drummer Dennis Thompson (1948-2024) about the band's "shock rock" tactics on their second visit to Britain in early 1972.
Let there be prog: Jerry Gilbert learns about the genesis of Genesis from frontman Peter Gabriel (Sounds, 1972) and John Swenson hears how the quintet took "courses in pretentiousness" at public school Charterhouse (Crawdaddy, 1974). Plus Nick Hasted looks back on the band's metamorphoses in 2014.
He shall overcome: Dorian Lynskey, author of the new study of apocalyptic fantasy Everything Must Go, pays tribute to king of the radical folkies Pete Seeger in 2014, interviews Kendrick Lamar in 2015 and asks why pop stars fall for conspiracy theories in 2020. Plus the Oh God, What Now co-host guests on the RBP podcast in January 2020.
Serving the servants: Edwin Pouncey asks Steve Albini (1962-2024) how the sessions for Nirvana's In Utero are going in early 1993, Simon Reynolds talks to Steve about Big Black and the unfortunately-named Rapeman in 1992 and Ian Chiste hears about the legendary artist-producer's "ultramodern" new project Shellac in 1994. Plus NME's James Johnson asks MC5 drummer Dennis Thompson (1948-2024) about the band's "shock rock" tactics on their second visit to Britain in early 1972.
Major dudes will tell you: Walter Becker and Donald Fagen talk to Barney Hoskyns about the inception of Steely Dan, the duo's adopted Los Angeles, their improbable Grammy awards… and their new album Everything Must Go (March 2003).
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