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Rock's Backpages Celebrates Fifth Birthday

Time to break out the cake and ice cream — or perhaps in this case, Cake, Vanilla Ice and Cream. The online rock journalism archive Rock's Backpages just celebrated its fifth birthday with a very special present: its 10,000th uploaded article. The website provides an extensive archive of articles from well-known magazines to obscure zines, including Billboard, Creem, Melody Maker, Mojo, Radio and Records and Rolling Stone. Rock's Backpages co-founder Barney Hoskyns wrote in an e-mail to Paste that he created the site as a way of facilitating research for music journalism. "I had the idea one day when someone...  read more