New podcast episode: Michael Gonzales discusses his writing from The Source to CrimeReads, plus he listens to his pal Amy Linden's 1998 audio interview with TLC.
www.rocksbackpages.com/Podcast/Epis...
06.10.2025 21:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New on RBP: a TLC audio interview from late 1998, plus Michael A. Gonzales celebrates the trio's classic CrazySexyCool album (and interviews Barry White & DJ Kool Herc). Plus archive articles on Labi Siffre & Cat Stevens and our farewells to Chris Dreja and Danny Thompson. www.rocksbackpages.com
03.10.2025 08:46 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New on RBP: Country-rock queens Emmylou Harris, Carlene Carter & Holly Gleason. Plus Gene Guerrero on the Grand Ole Opry in 1971 and farewells to Sonny Curtis and Danny Thompson. www.rocksbackpages.com #CountryMusic #EmmylouHarris #DannyThompsonRIP #GrandOleOpry
26.09.2025 08:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New episode: Greil Marcus discusses the 50th anniversary edition of his masterful 'Mystery Train' and listens to an audio interview with the Sex Pistols' graphic designer Jamie Reid. www.rocksbackpages.com/Podcast/Epis...
22.09.2025 19:11 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
New on RBP: Greil Marcus' magnificent 'Mystery Train' at 50, plus an audio interview with Sex Pistols designer Jamie Reid. And we remember the great Jackie Wilson & pay tribute to Bobby Hart, Blancmange's Stephen Luscombe and Lacy Lady DJ Chris Hill. www.rocksbackpages.com #GreilMarcus #SexPistols
19.09.2025 06:33 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New on RBP: a Spinal Tap special, plus a David Bowie audio interview from 1997, featured writer Keith Cameron on Manic Street Preachers and our farewells to Mark Volman, Rick Davies & Bruce Loose. www.rocksbackpages.com #DavidBowie #SpinalTap #Supertramp #Turtles
12.09.2025 06:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New podcast episode: The Guardian's Alexis Petridis reminisces about Acid House and Mixmag, listens to Mat Snow's 1992 KISS audio interview and discusses the role of music journalism in 2025. www.rocksbackpages.com/Podcast/Epis...
08.09.2025 18:32 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New on RBP: Mat Snow's audio interview with KISS' Gene Simmons & Paul Stanley from 1992, plus The Guardian's Alexis Petridis meets Prince & Daft Punk. Plus archive articles about Suede and Saint Etienne and 50+ new additions to the RBP library... www.rocksbackpages.com
05.09.2025 06:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube video by MUBI
FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER | Official Teaser Trailer | Coming Soon
Thomas Alan Waits in a new Jarmusch film.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgPE...
01.09.2025 08:33 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New on RBP: celebrating Van Morrison at 80, plus a Kanye West audio interview from 2004, Chris Ingham on Steely Dan and 50 new additions to the RBP library from Bob Dylan (1964) to Charli XCX (2024). www.rocksbackpages.com
29.08.2025 07:08 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New podcast episode: Blues & Soul veteran David Nathan discusses Dionne Warwick, Aretha Franklin and the year the Bee Gees went disco.
www.rocksbackpages.com/Podcast/Epis...
26.08.2025 20:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New on RBP: a Dionne Warwick audio interview, plus the summer the Bee Gees went disco, David ("the British Ambassador of Soul") Nathan in the spotlight and our farewell to Rolling Stone legend and Ray Charles biographer Michael Lydon. www.rocksbackpages.com
22.08.2025 09:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube video by Nelson George
Apocalypse Now. America 2025
Nelson George on Trump's attacks on academia, DEI and African-American history.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyUy...
18.08.2025 13:12 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New on RBP: an audio interview with James Chance from 1995 and archive pieces about '70s glam-prog contenders Be-Bop Deluxe. Plus featured writer Mick Houghton in the spotlight and interviews with Derek & the Dominos legend Bobby Whitlock, who left us last week... www.rocksbackpages.com
15.08.2025 06:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Insta post from Jimmy McDonough of Shakey fame. Coming in spring 2026...
www.wolfandsalmon.com/product-page...
13.08.2025 13:39 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
New podcast episode: the legendary Byron Coley recalls his encounters with Captain Beefheart, talks us through his career from New York Rocker to Forced Exposure and pays tribute to Terry Reid.
www.rocksbackpages.com/Podcast/Epis... #TerryReidRIP
11.08.2025 18:57 — 👍 44 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 1
New on RBP: remembering the Dead's Jerry Garcia, 30 years after his passing. Plus audio of the incomparable Captain Beefheart speaking in 1972 & Beefheart devotee Byron Coley in the RBP spotlight. And we say goodbye to Terry Reid & Eddie Palmieri... www.rocksbackpages.com #JerryGarcia #Beefheart
08.08.2025 08:11 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
River man: Record Mirror's Lon Goddard talks to blue-eyed-soul icon Terry Reid (1949-2025) in 1969 and Sounds' Penny Valentine interviews the singer in the week 1973's classic River album is released. www.rocksbackpages.com
06.08.2025 07:23 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The squeeze-box king: Joe Nick Patoski talks to Leonardo "Flaco" Jiménez (1939-2025) in 1977 and Ry Cooder discusses the Tex-Mex accordionist with Richard Harrington in 1976. www.rocksbackpages.com
02.08.2025 08:22 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New on RBP: Just how much did Elvis owe to the Dutch "huckster" who became "Colonel Tom Parker"? Plus a 1996 audio interview w/ neo-soul deity D'Angelo, a spotlight on the brilliant Brian Cullman, and fond farewells to Cleo Laine, Tom Lehrer & Golden Earring's George Kooymans.
www.rocksbackpages.com
01.08.2025 07:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New podcast episode: Record Mirror legend Val Mabbs remembers her close encounters with Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon and Marc Bolan.
www.rocksbackpages.com/Podcast/Epis...
29.07.2025 20:42 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
New on RBP: Bob's electric apostasy, plus our farewell to Ozzy, a Walker Brothers audio interview and Val Mabbs' encounters with Jimi Hendrix and John Lennon... www.rocksbackpages.com #OzzyRIP #BobDylan #Newport1965
25.07.2025 07:24 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
R.I.P. rock-photo archivist (and Phil's baby brother/manager) Michael Ochs (1943-2025). A very entertaining guy, even if he wasn't hugely popular with, er, rock photographers. Read Richard Cromelin's interview with him from 1980...
www.rocksbackpages.com/Library/Arti...
25.07.2025 07:09 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
New on RBP: classic Siouxsie & the Banshees interviews, plus Kevin Rowland, Connie Francis R.I.P., Pat Blashill's Texas punk and a 1990 audio with the Strawbs' Dave Cousins. www.rocksbackpages.com
18.07.2025 06:58 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
R.I.P. Spinal Tap's "Viv Savage", the keyboard maestro who wanted to have "a good time... all the time". Dave Caffinetti in Rare Bird, March 1970.
16.07.2025 13:37 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In the new episode of the RBP podcast, John (Kill Your Friends) Niven talks about his new novel and about his brilliant Band novella Music from Big Pink. www.rocksbackpages.com/Podcast/Epis... #JohnNiven #TheBand #KillYourFriends
14.07.2025 17:44 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
New on RBP: a long Lou Reed audio interview from 1996, plus Bobby "Blue" Bland's classic California Album revisited and the great Rolling Stone/New York Times/Deep Blues scribe Robert Palmer in the spotlight. www.rocksbackpages.com #LouReed #BobbyBland #musicjournalism
11.07.2025 07:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New on RBP: celebrating the all-star Sabbath extravaganza in Birmingham, a Metal Special featuring a hilarious Ozzy audio interview from 1997. Plus it's 50 years since Motörhead's live debut + Rock Candy man Howard Johnson in the spotlight and QOTSA in the Long Read. www.rocksbackpages.com
04.07.2025 07:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Cultural critic. Author. Coined "Afrofuturism." Theorized "culture jamming." Antifascist AF. Editor/writing coach for hire: https://coaching.markdery.com/. Read me: https://www.markdery.com/articles/
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Artist-driven record label, est. 1997
I am a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Sarcasm. I reside on the southwestern tip of London, where I compose songs, take long walks along the Thames, and write six essays every week for johnmendelssohn.substack.com.
biography of justin townes earle out jan. 2026/research editor at rolling stone/ he/him
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Writer, composer, editor, musician, record producer.
Brothers who make music together
Currently - Luke Haines and Peter Buck. Formerley - The Auteurs, Black Box Recorder. Writes a bit, paints a bit. Strums guitar.
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