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This page allows you to see all the special features published by Rock's Backpages since we started in 2000.

The following menus feature in-depth pieces on - and interviews with - Ryan Adams, Tim Buckley, Kate Bush, Nick Cave, Marianne Faithfull, Fatboy Slim, Chrissie Hynde, Mick Jagger, John Lennon, Mercury Rev, Nirvana, Queens Of The Stone Age, Roxy Music, The Smiths, Tom Waits and many more...

Every month we compile our "Fave Raves and Rabid Enthusiasms" in Dig This! You can review these using the following menu.

RBP pays regular tribute to the great musicians and industry legends who've
gone on that Great Gig In The Sky. You can find our tributes - including
Phast Phreddie Patterson's Grim Reporter column - using the following menu.

In addition we hope you will want to read such RBP features as The 100 Most Heartbreaking Records of All Time, The RBP Powerpop Top 100, The 100 Most Intense Records Ever Made, and The 50 Funkiest Records ever Made!

These, and many other special feature articles, are listed below.

Headless Heroes Of The Apocalypse (Slight Return), Part One

Headless Heroes Of The Apocalypse (Slight Return), Part Two

Kalifornia Über Alles

Yes Yes Y'all - Hip Hop from Scratch

Detroit from Hitsville to 8 Mile

Hail, Hail, Rock 'n' Roll Writing!

New pop mags: Rock's Future Pages

Hold Your Head Up: In Praise of Bi-Level Rock!

From Can to Magma: a EUROCK special!

When Noise Boys Ruled The Earth! How Lester Bangs & Friends saw the future in 1973

When Monterey Popped!

Epistle to a Young Critic: A Letter from Lester Bangs, February 1975

The Great Days of the Haçienda

Bangs Über Alles!! Unpublished Lester Bangs Krautrock Opus

Essay: Birthdays of the Cool?

DJ Kool Herc and the Birth of Hip Hop

Dancing with Devils: Stanley Booth at 60

The John Mendelssohn Show #5: How I Almost Met the Late John Lennon

Comment: Another Music In A Different Kitchen, Pt. 1

Comment: Another Music In A Different Kitchen, Pt. 2

The John Mendelssohn Show #3: Like Rock Never Happened!Meet Your Maker: Melody Maker 1970

Cry Me A River! The 100 Most Heartbreaking Records of All Time

Know Your NME!

Skinny Tie Heaven! The RBP Power Pop Top 100

A Tribute to Heroes! Ashbone U Wish do Wishbone Ash

Whatever Happened to Atlantic Records?

Comment: Hey, It's OK To Think About Rock Too!

Riff: Scribes turned Stars, Poachers Turned Gamekeepers!

Comment: What is Rock Crticism?

When Two Systems Clashed at Club Four Aces: London's Reggae Culture in the '70s

Summer (The First Time): Punk '76

Vinyl Reckoning: Nick Hornby's 10 Essential Tracks

Comment: Is the Record Industry Killing Itself?

Deep Soul Mecca: Muscle Shoals Alabama

So You Wanna Be a Rock'n'Roll Writer?

Lubbock on Everything

Almost Unknown: the British Almost Famous

Nuggets: The Psych-punk Explosion

The 50 Funkiest records ever made!

Peter Buck on rock critics

The 100 Most Intense Records

Comment: The Sound of Amélie – a film soundtrack gets it right

Kaye and Dalton's Rock 100

Comment: 2001: The Music That Mattered

25 Years of Rough Trade Records

Lester Bangs: He Came! He Saw! He Ranted!!!

Crawdaddy!: A revolution in Rock'n'Roll Writing

Charles Manson & the Death of the California Dream

Odysseys and Oddities: Space Rock

Over to You! RBP readers' best albums of 2001

Best of the Year: RBP's Albums of 2001

Comment: Art and ads still go together like a fish and a bicycle

Comment: Holly Gleason on Vegas and Country

Comment: The Thoughts of a Rock Critic

Turning the Stone: The Adventures of Jann Wenner and Cameron Crowe in the sick, slick '70s

John Van Hamersveld on the cover of Crown of Creation

Comment: Le Tigre, Erase Errata: The Noise Of Revolution

Comment: Playlist Nazis and Radio Misfits

Back Door Man and the New Order

Comment: Escaping Into Le Jardin de Heavenly

11.09.01 – Apocalypse Now

Comment: The new Rolling Stone is... The New Yorker?!

Imaging the Stones: John Van Hamersveld

Comment: The Dark Visions of Raymond Pettibon

Comment: MTV, 20 Years On

Comment: Howie Klein - Punk Mogul

News: Is Napster Dying?

Riffs: Beginner's guide to Power Pop

Cover Story: Remembering Alan Betrock

Riff: Le Pop Nouveau Français

Review: Rockumentaries!

Bud Scoppa: My Grammy Hell

Cover story: Great music books

Riff: The Fist of Pure Emotion

Cover story: NME

Riff: Cod Reggae

Profile: KCRW Los Angeles

Reviews: Review of 2000

Charlie Gillett talks to Greil Marcus

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