If you haven’t been getting your “messages”

— the ones that come through when you play a rock song backwards, that is — you’re in luck.

Backmasking

In Behind the Music: Sleuths Seek Messages in Lyrical Backspin, today’s WSJ A-head (subscription required) reveals that there are now a number of websites that let you play digital music in reverse.

About time, I’d say! Who knows how many messages went unnoticed after most of us dumped our old turntables (that have been what, about 1989?)

Here’s one of the sites, if you’re expecting to be contacted:

Jeff Milner