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This morning brought the sad if not wholly surprising news that John Martyn had passed on to that great Echoplex guitar unit in the sky. ... 
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Rock's Backpages wishes to thank all Yahoo music fans for the thousands of comments provoked by the 100 Heartbreakers feature we ran late last year. Even the abusive ones brought smiles to our lips. More importantly, the comments produced a slew of m 
Posted Fri Jan 23, 2009 1:01pm PST
For years Bruce Springsteen was an untouchable--one of rock's sacred cows. As he limbers up to the release of his new album Working On A Dream, we're re-running this dissenting post-Born In The USA swipe at da Bossman by comic genius John Mendelssohn 
Posted Thu Jan 22, 2009 12:56pm PST
It's always intriguing to discover how a future megaband came across when nobody knew who they were. NME's Paul Morley was there when four bonny Belfast boys played their first London show at West Hampstead's miniature Moonlight Club--and it turns ou 
Posted Tue Jan 20, 2009 10:45am PST
Electropop, synthpop, technopop: call it what you will, it's back with a vengeance via a new vanguard of saucy synth-vixens, from Ladyhawke to Little Boots via Lady GaGa and LaRoux...and even a few acts whose names don't begin with the letter 'L'! Bu 
Posted Tue Jan 13, 2009 11:55am PST
The news that surviving members of the Grateful Dead are set to tour again--as "The Dead"--prompts us to haul Michael Goldberg's reappraisal of the Haight-Ashbury jam-meisters out of the RBP vaults... 
Posted Mon Jan 12, 2009 11:47am PST
With Prince planning to release no less than four new albums this year, we thought it would be fun to relive one of the boy wonder's earliest gigs. Don Snowden was at the Roxy in LA to witness the miniature Minneapolitan's "jarring mixture" of styles 
Posted Fri Jan 9, 2009 11:53am PST
Johnny Black explains how the world's pre-eminent septuagenarian Jewish Buddhist singer-poet staged the year's most remarkable comeback. 
Posted Wed Jan 7, 2009 11:04am PST
Ron Asheton (1948-2009) wasn't Jimi Hendrix. But he was the bludgeoning guitarist in the ultimate proto-punk band, Iggy Pop's Motor City scuzzmeisters the Stooges. By way of paying tribute, Simon Reynolds explains how their first two albums ripped ro 
Posted Tue Dec 30, 2008 10:41am PST
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