Rock City News, one of L.A.'s longest running "straight from the streets" rock zines, has issued their first ever compilation album. Entitled Heavy Millennium, the fifteen-song sampler CD is the first-ever product of the newly formed Rock City Records.

Heavy Millenium, which costs $9.99, is available at local records stores or at the Rock City News office at 7030 De Longpre Avenue in Hollywood. According to a missive issued by Rock City News' head honcho Reuben Blue, "We started this company to expand the Rock City family and to experience the record company business. The record company and the newspaper will now work together and help each other. Both companies are geared towards helping and promoting local bands and the local music scene in Los Angeles. Rock City Records is another tool in the Rock City toolbox".

Okay. Here's the fifteen local bands that made the cut: former Geffen girl pop metallers Phantom Blue, gothic surf dudes Rover's Pinky (featuring frontman "Al Heroin"), Orange County's long-standing bastion of metal Rotten Rod and the Warheads (featuring a foxy bassist who goes by the name "Wanda Smart Bomb"), Santa Clarita's Helarge, who unabashedly describe their racket as "F*&%in rockin! Straight up heavy metal", well-exposed alt-rockers Mindflower, the Valley's Chigger Red who tag their din as "l00 percent no bullshit, in your face, deep fried whiskey soaked rock" etc., etc., etc. Also on the compilation are veteran local rocker Paul Lancia's newest project, Lazy Jane, throaty blonde rocker Torle Tyson, the recently reunited Black on Blond guys, (shouldn't that be blonde), Los Angeles power trio Groove Foundation; the modern rockers Mona For Now; heavy duty local faves Fracture, the dark hardcore of Mygrain Strain 999 (whose current demo was produced by Scott Veda of Tura Satana/Chop Shop) and the dynamic aggro of Orange County quartet Lovecraft.

"I'm glad to be on the CD" says Torie Tyson. "I'm for anything that helps support the local scene and gets the music out there, especially when it's put together by someone like Rock City News, who has been bolstering the Los Angeles music scene for so long". Rock City News, which has been published steadily since 1983, can be reached at 323-461-6600.