Rock's Backpages

Rock's Backpages is an online library of popular music journalism, sourced from freelance contributions to the music and mainstream press from the 1950s to the present day.

Rock's Backpages was founded in 2000 by British music journalist Barney Hoskyns. As of January 2008, its database contains over 12,000 articles (interviews, features, reviews etc.), covering a wide range of popular music (including blues and soul music) from the 1950s onwards. [" [http://www.rocksbackpages.com/group.html Group subscriptions] ". Rock's Backpages.]

Rock's Backpages is a subscription site, aimed at both individual consumers and institutional subscribers such as academic institutions and media organisations.

Sources for articles in the database include magazines such as "Creem", "Rolling Stone", "New Musical Express", "Melody Maker", "Crawdaddy!", and "Mojo magazine". The database contains contributions from over 300 journalists, primarily from the United States and the United Kingdom, including Dave Marsh, Nick Kent, Charles Shaar Murray, Nick Tosches, Mick Farren, Al Aronowitz and Ian MacDonald.

The articles are full text and fully searchable.

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.

This entry was written and edited by Mark Pringle, who is a co-director of Rock's Backpages

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* [http://www.rocksbackpages.com Rock's Backpages]
* [http://observer.guardian.co.uk/omm/story/0,,1729834,00.html Rock's Backpages at No. 14] in "The Observer" 'Top 25 Music Websites' (19 March 2006)
* [http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6322018.html review of Rock's Backpages] in the "Library Journal" (15 April 2006)
* [http://www.pastemagazine.com/action/article?article_id=3329 review of Rock's Backpages] in "Paste Magazine" (29 September 2006)
* [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2006/06/17/bmweb17.xml&page=9 review of Rock's Backpages] in the "Daily Telegraph" (17 June 2006)
* [http://www.ew.com/ew/report/0,6115,253552_6_0_,00.html review of Rock's Backpages] in "Entertainment Weekly" (16 November 2001)
* [http://www.guardian.co.uk/internetnews/story/0,,584290,00.html review of Rock's Backpages] in "The Guardian" (1 November 2001)