December 9th sees the 60th birthday of one of the most compellingly eccentric artists of the last 40 years – TOM WAITS, who has just released his new album GLITTER & DOOM LIVE.
If you're planning to run a feature or news item on this event, Rock's Backpages is an invaluable research tool:
• See the TOM WAITS archive on Rock's Backpages at http://www.rocksbackpages.com/artist.html?ArtistID=waits_tom
• Rock's Backpages is the primary research resource for original interviews, reviews, and reports from the rock press of the last 50 years.
• All 15,000 + articles are available for syndication.
• "It's an archive of classic interviews and profiles covering the 60s to the modern day with beer, sweat, blood and tear-stained missives from Jon Savage, Lester Bangs and others. If I'm researching a big name feature, RBP is the first place I turn to." (John Doran, Editor, The Quietus)
• Subscribe or take out a Day Pass at http://www.rocksbackpages.com/index.html
ABOUT ROCK'S BACKPAGES (Rock's Backpages: Rock reviews, rock articles & rock interviews from the Ultimate Rock'n'Roll Library)
There are currently over 15,000 articles in the Rock's Backpages library. These feature over three thousand artists and range from 500-word album (or concert) reviews to 10,000-word interviews and features.
The articles are full text and fully searchable (by artist, date, genre, keyword etc.) including a sophisticated "advanced search" option.
Written by over 450 of the biggest names in rock journalism, they are taken from the widest possible range of publications in the US and UK: from Creem and Trouser Pressto Rolling Stone, and from New Musical Expressand Melody Maker to MOJO.
The archive covers all genres of po
pular music from the 1950s to the present: from Aaliyah to ZZ Top, the Rolling Stones to the Stone Roses, and from Elvis Presley to Eminem. There are, for example, 220 articles on the Rolling Stones, 170 articles on Bob Dylan and over 50 about Radiohead.
The library includes previously unpublished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 the Arctic Monkeys.
The library is currently increasing in size by approximately 50 new articles a week.
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, and the vast majority of this material is exclusive to Rock’s Backpages for online distribution.
The site is operated by Backpages Limited, a company set up in 2000, and run by a team with long experience in the music journalism field. The editorial director is Barney Hoskyns (ex-US editor of Mojo and author of such books as Across the Great Divide, about The Band and Waiting For the Sun, about LA.)
Rock's Backpages has collaborated with Bloomsbury Publishing to publish The Sound And The Fury 40 Years of Classic Rock Journalism, which has been critically acclaimed in the press in the UK and USA, and with Omnibus Press to publish Ozzy Osbourne/Black Sabbath: A Rock's Backpages Reader.
For further information about Rock’s Backpages and the team involved please visit: About Rock's Backpages
If you're planning to run a feature or news item on this event, Rock's Backpages is an invaluable research tool:
• See the TOM WAITS archive on Rock's Backpages at http://www.rocksbackpages.com/artist.html?ArtistID=waits_tom
• Rock's Backpages is the primary research resource for original interviews, reviews, and reports from the rock press of the last 50 years.
• All 15,000 + articles are available for syndication.
• "It's an archive of classic interviews and profiles covering the 60s to the modern day with beer, sweat, blood and tear-stained missives from Jon Savage, Lester Bangs and others. If I'm researching a big name feature, RBP is the first place I turn to." (John Doran, Editor, The Quietus)
• Subscribe or take out a Day Pass at http://www.rocksbackpages.com/index.html
ABOUT ROCK'S BACKPAGES (Rock's Backpages: Rock reviews, rock articles & rock interviews from the Ultimate Rock'n'Roll Library)
There are currently over 15,000 articles in the Rock's Backpages library. These feature over three thousand artists and range from 500-word album (or concert) reviews to 10,000-word interviews and features.
The articles are full text and fully searchable (by artist, date, genre, keyword etc.) including a sophisticated "advanced search" option.
Written by over 450 of the biggest names in rock journalism, they are taken from the widest possible range of publications in the US and UK: from Creem and Trouser Pressto Rolling Stone, and from New Musical Expressand Melody Maker to MOJO.
The archive covers all genres of po
pular music from the 1950s to the present: from Aaliyah to ZZ Top, the Rolling Stones to the Stone Roses, and from Elvis Presley to Eminem. There are, for example, 220 articles on the Rolling Stones, 170 articles on Bob Dylan and over 50 about Radiohead.
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 the Arctic Monkeys.
The library is currently increasing in size by approximately 50 new articles a week.
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, and the vast majority of this material is exclusive to Rock’s Backpages for online distribution.
The site is operated by Backpages Limited, a company set up in 2000, and run by a team with long experience in the music journalism field. The editorial director is Barney Hoskyns (ex-US editor of Mojo and author of such books as Across the Great Divide, about The Band and Waiting For the Sun, about LA.)
Rock's Backpages has collaborated with Bloomsbury Publishing to publish The Sound And The Fury 40 Years of Classic Rock Journalism, which has been critically acclaimed in the press in the UK and USA, and with Omnibus Press to publish Ozzy Osbourne/Black Sabbath: A Rock's Backpages Reader.
For further information about Rock’s Backpages and the team involved please visit: About Rock's Backpages
