Blitz #28 (Detroit)

With issue number 28 of Blitz! publisher Mike McDowell tacked an additional 4-pages into the zine and changed the publication's tagline to "The Rock & Roll Magazine For Thinking People." McDowell's description of Blitz! wasn't mere hyperbole...this is a good music zine! This issue included a cool Residents front cover ("The Residents stock up for a wild weekend!") and a funny ad from local Detroit rockers the Mutants on the rear.

Between the covers you'd find articles on the Residents, interviews with Michael Nesmith of the Monkees and Freddie Cannon, and coverage of local bands the Plugs and the Ivories. Album reviews included such diverse fare as Devo, Johnny Cash, Dave Edmunds, Kenny and the Kasuals and Deep Purple; singles reviews included groovy tunes by local rockers like Nikki Corvette, the Last, the Reruns and Flirt (one of my personal faves) as well as French punks Metal Urbain, the Red Krayola and Motorhead. John Clayton covers the Boomtown Rats, Graham Parker and the Sex Pistols in his excellent "Mersey Beat" column.

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VITAL STATISTICS:
• Issue #28
• September-October 1978
• B&W, 28-pages (including covers)
• Style: music zine

ARTICLES
The Residents
Freddy Cannon
Michael Nesmith of the Monkees
The Ivories
The Plugs
Neil Norman
--> also album reviews, reader mail, local music news, reviews of "classic songs"