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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...
There's a riot goin' on: Sally Margaret Joy thrills to Bikini Kill as they "burn up Britain" with Huggy Bear in 1993, and Holly Gleason revisits the band's game-changing 1991 tape Revolution Girl Style Now in 2015. Plus Michael Goldberg considers Kathleen Hanna's post-Riot Grrrl adventures with Le Tigre in 2001.
Speaking in tongues: Trent Reznor on the telephone to Ned Raggett, discussing a new EP by Nine Inch Nails offshoot How To Destroy Angels, the soundtracks he's scored with Atticus Ross (left)... and his creative process in sobriety (2012).
Legal lies: Toby Manning asks why Ecstasy is illegal when booze and cigarettes aren't (Jockey Slut, 1998). Plus the author of Marxist pop history Mixing Pop and Politics interviews Sophie Ellis-Bextor for Select in 2000 and reviews a Richard Thompson box-set for The Word in 2006.
Blowing up a storm: The Wire's Richard Cook asks David Sanborn (1945-2024) about his new album Another Hand in 1991 and Downbeat's Geoffrey Himes hears about the alto-sax symbol's TV show Sanborn Sessions in 2018. Plus Record Mirror's David Hancock meets Jamaican-born Brit-soul man Jimmy James (1940-2024) in 1976.
There's a riot goin' on: Sally Margaret Joy thrills to Bikini Kill as they "burn up Britain" with Huggy Bear in 1993, and Holly Gleason revisits the band's game-changing 1991 tape Revolution Girl Style Now in 2015. Plus Michael Goldberg considers Kathleen Hanna's post-Riot Grrrl adventures with Le Tigre in 2001.
Legal lies: Toby Manning asks why Ecstasy is illegal when booze and cigarettes aren't (Jockey Slut, 1998). Plus the author of Marxist pop history Mixing Pop and Politics interviews Sophie Ellis-Bextor for Select in 2000 and reviews a Richard Thompson box-set for The Word in 2006.
Blowing up a storm: The Wire's Richard Cook asks David Sanborn (1945-2024) about his new album Another Hand in 1991 and Downbeat's Geoffrey Himes hears about the alto-sax symbol's TV show Sanborn Sessions in 2018. Plus Record Mirror's David Hancock meets Jamaican-born Brit-soul man Jimmy James (1940-2024) in 1976.
Speaking in tongues: Trent Reznor on the telephone to Ned Raggett, discussing a new EP by Nine Inch Nails offshoot How To Destroy Angels, the soundtracks he's scored with Atticus Ross (left)... and his creative process in sobriety (2012).
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