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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...
Heaven or Grangemouth: Don Watson hangs out in Scotland with nascent indie darlings Cocteau Twins (NME, 1982). Plus John Robb interviews the band on the release of the exquisite Heaven or Las Vegas (Sounds, 1990) and The Word's Jim Irvin reappraises the genius of Simon Raymonde, Liz Fraser and Robin Guthrie in 2006.
Ready, Steady, Dusty: "White soul" icon Dusty Springfield discusses the Springfields, Ready, Steady, Go!, Scandal and Pet Shop Boys with the New York Post's Ira Robbins (1989).
Women's rites: L.A. Weekly veteran Sara Scribner interviews all-female punks 7 Year Bitch in 1993 and reviews Babes in Toyland's Painkillers from the same year. Plus Sara reviews three new books about Prince for the L.A. Review of Books in 2017.
Heaven or Grangemouth: Don Watson hangs out in Scotland with nascent indie darlings Cocteau Twins (NME, 1982). Plus John Robb interviews the band on the release of the exquisite Heaven or Las Vegas (Sounds, 1990) and The Word's Jim Irvin reappraises the genius of Simon Raymonde, Liz Fraser and Robin Guthrie in 2006.
Women's rites: L.A. Weekly veteran Sara Scribner interviews all-female punks 7 Year Bitch in 1993 and reviews Babes in Toyland's Painkillers from the same year. Plus Sara reviews three new books about Prince for the L.A. Review of Books in 2017.
A Shed load: Britpop also-rans (and current chart-toppers) Shed Seven grant the late Steven Wells their "first-ever interesting interview" (NME, May 1998).
Ready, Steady, Dusty: "White soul" icon Dusty Springfield discusses the Springfields, Ready, Steady, Go!, Scandal and Pet Shop Boys with the New York Post's Ira Robbins (1989).
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Simon Raymonde on Cocteau Twins
