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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...
Altered States: Sufjan Stevens talks to Ben Thompson about his "50 states of rock" project in 2004 and Craig McLean discusses music as devotional liturgy with the singer in 2006. Plus Andy Gill is entranced by 2015's majestic Carrie & Lowell…
New York conversations: Will Hermes introduces his new biography of Lou Reed, talks to Patti Smith and Lenny Kaye about 1975's extraordinary Horses (Village Voice, 2005) and interviews Lou's partner Laurie Anderson in TriBeca (New York Times, 2010).
New episode: Mick Gold revisits his Let It Rock days, discusses Dr. Feelgood and London's '70s pub rock scene, and listens to our Bruce Springsteen audio interview.
Altered States: Sufjan Stevens talks to Ben Thompson about his "50 states of rock" project in 2004 and Craig McLean discusses music as devotional liturgy with the singer in 2006. Plus Andy Gill is entranced by 2015's majestic Carrie & Lowell…
New York conversations: Will Hermes introduces his new biography of Lou Reed, talks to Patti Smith and Lenny Kaye about 1975's extraordinary Horses (Village Voice, 2005) and interviews Lou's partner Laurie Anderson in TriBeca (New York Times, 2010).
New episode: Mick Gold revisits his Let It Rock days, discusses Dr. Feelgood and London's '70s pub rock scene, and listens to our Bruce Springsteen audio interview.
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New podcast episode
Mick Gold on Bruce Springsteen and pub rock
