Swing by the shop and grab issue #39. Probably one of their best issues ever (and that's sayin' alot!!) Amazing articles on Fela, Tony Allen, Soundway, Orchestre Poly-Rythmo, Pax Nicholas & our main man Rich Medina.
So apparently turntables & vinyl records are so in fashion right now that the Recording Academy is honoring Thomas Alva Edison with a Special Merit Grammy for the invention of the phonograph. This week just also happens to be the 132nd anniversary of the patent of the phonograph.
For those of you who are record collectors or at the very least know somebody who keeps their mad stacks of wax on the Ikea Expedit bookshelf that houses roughly 2000 pieces of vinyl for $200 and 20 hours of wall punching labor. I have had the unfortunate job of putting together & taking apart these pieces of poop one gazillion times plus........ So all I'm saying when this coffee & record shizz pays off I am so going to kick back with my monocle, get schiltzed on Louis XIII while listening to my Velvet Underground acetate spin on top of this beautiful $5000 record cabinet by Jennifer Levin Atocha.