Yahoo! Services

Account Options

New User? Sign Up Sign In Help

Yahoo! Search

Music Blogs

RSS Email IM Bookmark

Music Blogs > Rock's Backpages > August 2008

thriller

Michael Jackson: He's No Osmond!

Posted Fri Aug 29, 2008 10:08am PDT
We celebrate the 50th birthday of the sometime King Of Pop with this excerpt from one of his rare media encounters, conducted for Creem in late 1982. ... More »
Permalink  |  Post a Comment (5) »
burial

Love Among The Ruins: Burial And The Poetics Of Hoodie Dubstep

Posted Sun Aug 24, 2008 11:11am PDT
The bookies' surprise favorite for the UK's ultra-prestigious Mercury Music Prize is the dark second offering from a mysterious South Londoner who calls himself Burial. ... More »
Permalink  |  Post a Comment (0) »
eliminator

Life At The ZZ Top: How 'Eliminator' Changed The '80s

Posted Wed Aug 20, 2008 5:13pm PDT
We mark the 25th anniversary reissue of the mighty Eliminator with an excerpt from a very droll 1985 ZZ Top piece by newly-appointed Interview editor Glenn O'Brien. ... More »
Permalink  |  Post a Comment (3) »
wexler

The Big Kahuna: Jerry Wexler, 1917-2008

Posted Tue Aug 19, 2008 10:28am PDT
The death of Jerry Wexler has robbed the world of one of black music's great white facilitators: a brilliant believer who coined the term "rhythm and bleus" and nurtured soul giants from Ray Charles to Aretha Franklin. ... More »
Permalink  |  Post a Comment (3) »
elvis68comeback

The Return Of The King: Elvis And The Making Of The '68 Comeback Special

Posted Sat Aug 16, 2008 1:42pm PDT
When Elvis Presley donned a black leather suit and stepped in front of NBC's cameras for his 1968 TV special, he changed the historical perception of his legend forever. ... More »
Permalink  |  Post a Comment (3) »
wizard

He Put A Spell On Me: Todd Rundgren's 'A Wizard, A True Star'

Posted Thu Aug 14, 2008 11:33am PDT
It is 35 years since Todd Rundgren released the spellbinding A Wizard, A True Star. ... More »
Permalink  |  Post a Comment (8) »
REM Murmur

Radio Free Athens: R.E.M.'s Debut Album at 25

Posted Tue Aug 5, 2008 5:32pm PDT
It was the superb 1983 album Murmur that made critics sit up and notice a radical new four-piece from Georgia. Released 25 years ago, we commemorate the impact of R.E.M. with this perceptive Creem review by John Morthland. More »
Permalink  |  Post a Comment (0) »
BAND Big Pink

Forty Years On: The Band's Timeless Music From Big Pink

Posted Sat Aug 2, 2008 9:40pm PDT
The Band changed the face of American roots music with its debut album Music from Big Pink. Rock's Backpages celebrates the 40th birthday of a seminal release with an abridged version of the late Al Aronowitz's 1968 encounter with the group in bucoli More »
Permalink  |  Post a Comment (1) »
newyorkdolls

Jet Boys: The New York Dolls

Posted Fri Aug 1, 2008 5:34pm PDT
It was 35 years ago this week that a bunch of Gotham mongrels donned lipstick and platform heels and shocked the rock world with their protopunk glam pop. The NME's Nick Kent was there to hail the New York Dolls the first time around. More »
Permalink  |  Post a Comment (0) »

Yahoo! Music Blogs

Select a Blog Posts
New This Week
by Dave DiMartino		122
Reality Bites
by Jordan Gracey		38
Reality Rocks
by Lyndsey Parker		570
Rock's Backpages
by Philip Norman (1970)		191
Sound Check
by Yahoo! Music Canada		27
Stop The Presses!
by Us Magazine		85
That's Really Week
by Lyndsey Parker		124
The Blender Burner
by Blender Magazine		27
The MOJO Blog
by Bill DeMain		88
The NME Blog
by Luke Lewis		48
The Spin Blog
by David Marchese		77
The Ten
by Andy West		9
Video Ga Ga
by Lyndsey Parker		70
View All Blogs »

Recent News Stories

Q&A: 50 Cent gets back to gritty roots on new CD

AP
Mon Nov 23, 2009 10:37am PST

AP - To create an album as hard-hitting as his multiplatinum-selling debut, "Get Rich or Die Tryin'," 50 Cent says he had to tap into the troubles he dealt with before he became one of hip-hop's biggest stars. … More »

More News Stories
View All News »