“THANK GOD FOR CHRIS ZIEGLER”

Download: Big Star “Thank You Friends”

Just got the best note I ever got over at L.A. WEEKLY on the Flying Lotus / Blank Blue / Not Wave article. Full disclosure: I didn’t seed this and I have no idea who wrote it. If I know you, I owe you something nice. If I don’t, once I know who you are, I will initiate the owing-you process. As always in these situation: thank you, friends! Also full disclosure: I do have a full brain but only half of it works at any given time.

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Thank God for Chris Ziegler. Why doesn’t someone give him a book deal already? He is the only person writing about music in LA who has half a brain and a turn with prose.
Comment by bricklayer on Sep 25th, 2008, 02:06 am

(Also—art by Max Pechstein, who I previously repurposed as an RTX flyer.)

BEAT SWAP MEET AT GRAND STAR RIGHT NOW

Download: EPMD “You’re A Customer”

Download: Archie Shepp “Money Blues”

UPDATE: Rare snaps of Charlie himself.

Your man Charlie is up at the Beat Swap Meet right now repping Ubiquity (come for the Pharoahs, leave with the Blank Blue EP) and L.A. RECORD with a bunch of diggers in dig paradise: Grand Star with full bar and crates to pull from. I always liked the idea of a cocktail record swap. I’m gonna call up and see if I can put a line out on Archie Shepp’s Things Have Got To Change.