Blitz #29 (Detroit)

With issue number 29 of Detroit music zine Blitz!, publisher Mike McDowell includes two excellent articles, the first being "The History Of Hamtramck Rock," covering local bands the Mutants, the Reruns and the Romantics. Hamtramck is a city-within-a-city located near the center of Detroit. Home to a large GM plant, Hamtramck was a mostly-Polish community with some of the best restaurants that you'll ever eat in. A microcosm of the high-octane Motor City rock scene, the little city had a long musical legacy of its own to brag about.

The other cover article worth noting is McDowell's piece on Radar Records, including a label discography. At the time, aside from the odd article in Creem magazine, only Ira Robbins' Trouser Press was really covering what was going on in England. McDowell's article included Elvis Costello & the Attractions, Ray Campi and his Rockabilly Rebels, the Good Rats, Nick Lowe, the Soft Boys and other artists that were still a good year or five away from becoming well-known in the United States. Other articles in this issue include a piece on cult band Kenny & the Kasuals, the Neon Philharmonic and the Belmonts as well as the usual well-written and diverse album and 45 reviews.

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VITAL STATISTICS:
• Issue #29
• November-December 1978
• B&W, 28-pages (including covers)
• Style: music zine

ARTICLES
"The History Of Hamtramck Rock"
Kenny & the Kasuals
The Belmonts
The Neon Philharmonic
"Dangerous" Diane Spodarek
"The Radar Records Story"
--> also album reviews, reader mail, local music news, reviews of "classic songs"