Description

Rock's Backpages contains over 14,000 articles, interviews and reviews from the world's best music writers and critics—as well as MP3 audio files—from the late 1950s to the present day.

Features and benefits

• There are currently over 14,000 articles in this online database. These articles feature over 2,500 artists and range from 500-word album (or concert) reviews to 10,000-word interviews or features.
• The articles are full-text and fully searchable (by artist, date, genre, keyword, etc.) including a sophisticated advanced search option.
• Written by over three hundred of the biggest names in rock journalism, they are taken from the widest possible range of publications in the United States and United Kingdom: from Creem and Trouser Press to Rolling Stone, and from New Musical Express and Melody Maker to Mojo.
• The library is currently increasing in size by approximately 50 new articles a week.
• The archive covers all types of popular music from the 1950s to the present—from Abba to Zappa, the Stones to the Stone Roses, and from Elvis to Eminem. There are, for example, 130 articles on the Beach Boys and 185 on the Rolling Stones.
• The library includes previously unpublished pieces about The Beatles (by Michael Lydon in 1966), The Doors (by Lester Bangs in 1975), and seminal interviews with major artists from Bob Dylan to Radiohead.
• There are now 90 exclusive audio interviews with major artists available on the site.
• All the material in the database is presented with the full agreement and permission of the copyright holders—freelance writers and journalists—or of their estates.

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