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The Rock's Backpages Flashback: The Clash Calling

Posted Fri Nov 6, 2009 4:24pm PST
It is 30 long years since The Clash released their ground-breaking, shapeshifting double album London Calling. In this terrific Melody Maker interview with Joe Strummer, Chris Bohn gets the lowdown on "Clampdown" and many of the album's other tracks. More »
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The Rock's Backpages Flashback: Captain Beefheart Is Alive In Hollywood

Posted Mon Nov 2, 2009 3:31pm PST
Almost 40 years ago, Don Van Vliet--aka Captain Beefheart--released one of the most extraordinary rock albums ever made. Swinging London legend (Barry) Miles met the Captain on the eve of Trout Mask Replica's release. More »
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The Rock's Backpages Flashback: Rap's Black Planet

Posted Sat Oct 24, 2009 12:35pm PDT
Almost 20 years have shot by since Q's Mark Cooper traveled to America to report on the shock waves caused by Public Enemy and NWA. Seems an apt time to salute these avatars of hip hop, so here's an excerpt... More »
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bowie

The Rock's Backpages Flashback: David Bowie Has Left The Theatre!

Posted Fri Oct 23, 2009 12:03pm PDT
David Bowie's makeover from the apocalyptic androgyne of 1974's Diamond Dogs to the emaciated "plastic soul" man of 1975's Young Americans was one of the more startling self-reinventions in the history of rock.NME's Mick Farren was there to see the l More »
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The Rock's Backpages Flashback: Remembering Brendan Mullen and the L.A. Punk Scene

Posted Fri Oct 16, 2009 5:12pm PDT
The shocking and wholly unexpected death of Brendan Mullen after a massive stroke at the age of 58 prompted me to pull out this Village Voice review of We Got the Neutron Bomb, the great 2001 oral history of L.A.'s punk scene that he co-authored with More »
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The Rock's Backpages Flashback: The Unstoppable Rise Of An Imperfect Angel

Posted Fri Oct 9, 2009 5:02pm PDT
The diva with the multi-octave pipes is back with her Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel. Mat Snow met the lady in question as her career skyrocketed in the late summer of 1991 More »
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bob dylan

List-o-Mania: RBP's 10 Best Career Shifts In Pop History

Posted Thu Oct 8, 2009 6:08pm PDT
Rob Steen presents 10 of the most seminal "direction changes" in rock's illustrious history, from Dylan and the Beatles to Talking Heads and Radiohead--with three substitutes for backup. More »
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nick cave

Nick Cave The Novelist: The Death Of Bunny Munro

Posted Wed Oct 7, 2009 4:26pm PDT
Leyla Sanai gets to grips with the Australian singer's second novel -the long-awaited follow-up to 1989's And the Ass Saw the Angel. She's highly impressed. More »
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the mamas and papas

The Rock's Backpages Flashback: The Mamas And The Papas

Posted Mon Oct 5, 2009 11:29am PDT
Mackenzie Phillips' revelations about her Papa prompt us to revisit this snapshot of life among pop's royalty in the heyday of Swinging London, summer 1966 More »
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beach vs beatles

The Rock's Backpages Flashback: Paul McCartney Drops In On The Beach Boys

Posted Sat Oct 3, 2009 4:05pm PDT
When Beatles press officer Derek Taylor swapped Swinging London for Laid-Back Los Angeles in 1965, he played a pivotal part in bringing the two worlds together, doing press for the Byrds, the Beach Boys and many other West Coast acts. (It was he who More »
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