Blitz #30 (Detroit)

Issue number 30 of Blitz! offers a nice balance of local Detroit rock coverage and coverage of classic early R&R bands like Danny & the Juniors and Paul Revere & the Raiders. This issue also includes articles on out-of-towners like Boston's Moving Parts and Cleveland's Human Switchboard. It was around this time that I met Blitz! publisher Mike McDowell somewhere around town (maybe at one of the many weekend record collector's conventions?) and talked to him about writing for the zine.

I never got my chance to contribute to Blitz! but that didn't dampen my enthusiasm for the magazine. This issue included features on two of my favorite local bands, punkers Flirt (as I remember, mainstays at the New Miami club in the Cass corridor) and Nikki Corvette & the Convertibles (who should have been big stars in the vein of Katrina & the Waves, the Go-Gos or the Bangles). The reviews section is flush with reviews of Motor City rock, including 45s from Destroy All Monsters, the Ivories and Master Cylinder, and Elvis Costello's This Year's Model takes the top LP spot in the Blitz Awards For 1978 listing.

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VITAL STATISTICS:
• Issue #30
• March-April 1979
• B&W, 28-pages (including covers)
• Style: music zine

ARTICLES
Phil Volk of Paul Revere & the Raiders
Flirt
Nikki Corvette & the Convertibles
The Nightcrawlers
Moving Parts
The Human Switchboard
Danny & the Juniors
--> also album reviews, reader mail, local music news, reviews of "classic songs"