Ruben Blue
Publisher/Editor/Photographer
ROCK CITY NEWS
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also known as
ROCK CITY
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1987 - 2009
WWW.ROCKCITYNEWS.COM
In 1988 Ruben Blue changed the name of
LA ROCKS
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to
ROCK CITY NEWS
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and was FIRST to discover and feature such L.A. bands as . . .
Static X, Sugar Ray, Korn, System of a Down, Lit, Poison, L.A. Guns, Warrant, Bullet Boys, Shark Island, Sibling Rivalry, Hans Naughty, Quiet Riot, RATT, Armored Saint, Jetboy, Faster Pussycat, Tuff, Pretty Boy Floyd, Gilby Clark, Pair-a-Dice, Paradise, D.J.Ashba, Atomic Punks, Roxanne, The Zeros, The Joneses, Screaming Sirens, Phantom Blue, Snot, Suction, Spineshank, 57 Crown, Coal Chamber, Rosemarys Billygoat, Dr. Starr, Bang Tango, Beautiful Creatures, No FX, Incubus, Swamp Boogie Queen, Fear Factory, Harry Perry, Chuck E. Weiss, More
During the 80S and 90s
there were thousands of bands in L.A. . . . It was
THE LARGEST MUSIC SCENE TO EXIST ANYWHERE EVER
Rock City News was always out looking for the best new bands and distributing the magazine to all music outlets in L.A. including all the record companies, where A&R reps read it weekly
Besides being the Publisher/Editor/Photographer, Ruben Blue also was a Promoter of countless Rock Shows, TV Shows, Art Exhibits, Events, Festivals, and Parties for the next 20 years in Hollywood, and then another 10 years publishing LA JEMM and putting on monthly cannabis festivals at his Rock City Railroad Complex on Hollywood Blvd
ROCK CITY NEWS was published every two weeks in
Los Angeles and Orange County from 1988 - 2008
Here's a few, but not all, of the covers for
some of those years. Can you believe Ruben
actually interviewed all those bands?
You can find all the covers and the
inside pages on the old Rock City News website,
which is still being re-configured for the new phones,
which show the type much smaller than on a computer.
When Ruben built the website back about 30 years ago,
it was inconceivable that a phone could go on the internet
Rock City News Covers
(This is just a partial list)
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2004
2005
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