Page 1. Scratch Magazine - 1983 - Vol. 1 - No. 1 - 11

Page 2. Scratch Magazine - 1983 - Vol. 1 - No. 12 - 26

Page 3. Scratch Magazine - 1984 - Vol. 2 - No. 1 - 14

Page 4. Scratch Magazine - 1984 - Vol. 2 - No. 15 - 26

Page 5. Scratch Magazine - 1985 - Vol. 2 - No. 30 - 44

Page 6. Scratch Magazine - 1986 - Vol 3, No 1 - 7

Page 7. Scratch Magazine - 1983-86 "Best of" & Calendar

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The Rock City archives consists of crates and crates of back issues,thousands of photos, and boxes full of film and proofsheets of happening events and bands since 1983.
They are filling up our garage, house, attic, basement, and office.
We will be summarizing back issues on the web soon, but for now, they're taking up space.

We will be having a back issue party this summer and getting rid of some back issues.

When we do get the archives up and running, they will be awesome!

Thank you for your interest.

RUBEN MAC BLUE
Publisher

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A BRIEF HISTORY:

• 1983 - Rock City News was founded as "SCRATCH MAGAZINE"
• 1986 - Scratch became "L.A. ROCKS!"
• 1987 - finally, "ROCK CITY NEWS"
• RCN was first to discover and feature such local bands as Guns and Roses, and Red Hot Chili Peppers
• First to feature Melrose Avenue, long before it became trendy
• First to cover rap music with coverage of L.A.'s first rap clubs, including rapper Ice T.

Interview with Ruben Blue in 1987

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