Rock’s Backpages

Rock's Backpages – www.rocksbackpages.com
the home page
Rock journalism library Rock's Backpages at www.rocksbackpages.com is the on-line library of music journalism, having just uploaded its 11,000th article. This makes it by far the largest database of rock journalism.
A subscription site ($50 per year), it is a cultural resource for students, and a tool for journalists. It was co-founded five years ago by author and former Mojo US editor Barney Hoskyns.
Rock's Backpages features the work of many of the world's best-known music journalists past and present, including Lester Bangs, Nick Kent, Lenny Kaye, Nick Tosches, Carol Cooper, Dave Marsh, Ben Fong-Torres, Charlie Gillett, Penny Valentine, Robert Greenfield, Jon Savage, Richard Williams, Charles Shaar Murray and Simon Reynolds. The archive is fully searchable by artist, genre, writer or keyword (allowing search by album or single title, date etc).
Rock’s Backpages also features a growing library of audio interviews for podcast, including classic conversations with Morrissey, Little Richard, Arthur Lee, Joni Mitchell, Johnny Cash and Tom Waits.
the library page
"There is nothing out there that is even remotely like it for exploring the past 40 years of rock music history or the culture that rock music helped to shape. Be cool. Subscribe."
The Library Journal.
"As comprehensive as a Google search, but with less insane liars."
Lauren Laverne (BBC DJ and TV personality)
"There's no finer website for the Archivalist Snob than Rock's Backpages."
Snobsite.com
"Rock's Backpages is as important to my research in writing my books as Graham Greene."
Andrew Loog Oldham (legendary Rolling Stones Manager)
"Rock's Backpages is an invaluable tool to remind me of what was really was going on in the '60s and '70s when I started out in this wonderful business."
David Enthoven (Manager, Robbie Williams)
"A cultural resource for students, a tool for journalists, and a great way of whiling away a wet afternoon"
Observer Music Monthly
"Marvel at the pre-PR days when writers could hang out with Keiths Moon and Richards…"
The Daily Telegraph
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