Zig Zags

The LA sleaze merchants with Iggy connections return with a head-crunching new album.

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Zig Zags formed a dozen years ago in various Los Angeles back alleys. Together, singer/guitarist Jed Maheu and a sampling of Hollywood's sleaziest rhythm sections concocted a bruising cacophony of lusty, satanic punk-metal that owed as much to Black Flag as The Stooges. Within a couple of short years, garage rock legend Ty Segall had produced their debut album on hip indie label In The Red, and the band had recorded a single with Iggy Pop.

“People were trading our record around,” Maheu remembers. “This is pre-Spotify, really. They were giving each other copies of the physical record. And people from much bigger bands than us were coming up to me and telling me they liked it. It was pretty amazing.”