Rock's Backpages

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Rock's Backpages (www.rocksbackpages.com) 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 October 2006, its database contains over 10,000 articles (interviews, features, reviews etc.), covering a wide range of popular music (including Blues, Soul music etc.) from the 1950s onwards.

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, 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.