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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...
Blues-eyed soul: Robert Duncan tells the "horrifying true story" of the Blues Brothers (Creem, 1979). Plus Richard Cromelin reviews the original soundtrack album for the L.A. Times and Rolling Stone's Dave Marsh observes John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd's "move from the gratuitously racist to the merely patronizing" on their second album.
At his age: Nick Lowe talks to Ira Robbins about growing older; writing and recording; Chrissie Hynde and Elvis Costello... and his ex-father-in-law Johnny Cash (July 2007).
Blues-eyed soul: Robert Duncan tells the "horrifying true story" of the Blues Brothers (Creem, 1979). Plus Richard Cromelin reviews the original soundtrack album for the L.A. Times and Rolling Stone's Dave Marsh observes John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd's "move from the gratuitously racist to the merely patronizing" on their second album.
Southern companions: Simon Witter hangs out in Dallas and San Antonio with the Black Crowes and hears about the Georgia combo's stonking sophomore album (Sky, 1992).
At his age: Nick Lowe talks to Ira Robbins about growing older; writing and recording; Chrissie Hynde and Elvis Costello... and his ex-father-in-law Johnny Cash (July 2007).
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