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Rock Magazines: Why They're So Good

John Mendelsohn, Creem, July 1986

YOU KNOW WHAT'S interesting about the rock print medium nearly two-thirds of the way through the '80s? That so much of it is aimed at what you'd imagine to be the least literate segment of the rock audience – that which believes that Metal Rules.

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