The Crew are a skate collective from Michigan that are big on skating and big on beats. We were treated to a sick edit from Port Huron boys in our inbox this week… this is Volume 12 in their on-going mixtape series, entitled ‘The Crew Massacre‘. It’s packed to the brim with quirky lines, ledge wizardry and big beats. Get stuck in below…
Australia’s church-band-turned-rock-outfit Violent Soho have released the brand new music video for their new single ‘Jesus Stole My Girlfriend‘.
The single will be released on July 26 through Ecstatic Peace! Check out the video below to hear the perfect fury-filled soundtrack for whenever you get dumped for Jesus.
Etnies regularly updated trip into the lives of Joe Gavin and Willow and what they’re gettting up to in their cities, Manchester and Berlin respectively, has seen two new video edits online this week.
First, we head to Manchester to see Joe shred the streets with the help of Danny Jack, Kev Eley and Jak Pietryga in honour of the launch of his new shoe. Then it’s over to Berlin where Willow takes us on a little trip round some of the local hotspots before getting involved in a little skatepark action with his Manchester counterpart…
Head over to www.talesoftwocities.com to see the new stuff and to keep up on all the latest…
If just one look at this tee doesn’t make your mind scream ‘THAT… is the best t-shirt I’ve seen in my entire life’ then I don’t think I can trust you. It’s not often that a photograph can capture something so perfect that no response can be accused of being hyperbole but here is an example. Printed on this Etnies t-shirt is that shot of a skater bombing down the Interstate 405 flippin’ off the commuting collective that emerged on Go Skateboarding Day in 2008, and it is nothing short of the best thing ever. Don’t try to analyse it. Whatever you do, don’t put yourselves in the mind of any of the drivers either because that makes you a cock. This, whether you love it or hate it, is skateboarding defined: being free, being against the grain and just not giving a damn about anyone else.
Aside from being able to replace any bad things in your life with feelings of AWESOME, this t shirt is a regular fitting tee and comes in either black or white which is enough to satisfy anyone’s taste in what you like to cover your nips with I’m sure. Get it, or just look at it, whatever, just let it make you feel good.
Stanley
Alfalfa Males Once Summer Is Done Conform Or Die
Boss Tuneage
www.myspace.com/hardonsband
A brand new 19 song album from Sydney’s perennial noiseniks The Hard Ons, and if you’re having a little trouble trying to unscramble the title, it reads a little better as “Alfalfa Males : Once Summer is Done : Conform or Die” – in other words three album titles in one, and as good a directive as any to the musical mission you are about to embark on.
There are big, burly punk rocking numbers, laden with chunky riffage and snotty fuck-you vocals that hit you right in the chops. There are sugar frosted songs dripping in melody and a general sense of feel good fuzziness. And then hellfire and damnation is unleashed to the tune of crushing bolts of frenzied cranium crunching noise to batter your senses in a brutal sonic attack.
Are you keeping up with all this? There are no half measures, and whether the boys are laying down some primo syrupy tuneage or shredding your senses, the delivery hits you like torpedo. And there’s some typically not-so-obvious humour, “The Media Frenzy That Followed” especially cracked me up and reminded me of a hilarious conversation about sport being like cuisine!! Whilst “Keep Talking My Eyes Aren’t Completely Glazed Over” is one of the best song titles you’ll hear all year!
It would be so fuckin’ easy for the Hard Ons to rest on their laurels and just rehash the old hits, but they refuse to comply and pander to the masses, and that’s why I always look forward to hearing what gonzoid jams they’ll come up with next. And this album is right up there, quality collection of songs.
Pete Craven.
Pigeons are my favourite animal ever. They’ve got a bad reputation and I dig that. This rep stems from the same breed of idiots that attribute notions of purity and peace to those butter-wouldn’t-melt bastard doves. Despite the dove and the pigeon being in the same family of birds, they are dismissed as a disease-riddled nuisance. Never to be put down by racial profiling, the pigeon is so bad-ass it just struts around cities where ever it pleases, eating up whatever we’re too lazy to put in a bin. The pigeon is an urban bird that quite obviously doesn’t give a fuck. And I love them.
So imagine my delight when Zoo York put out a board with a flock of up-to-no-good pigeons lurking on top of the tallest building in the sprawling menagerie that is New York. The caption reads ‘plotting doom from high upon the empire state building’ and that’s precisely what they’re up to. These birds belong in the same cage that houses the likes of Forrest Kirby, Zered Basset, Aaron Suski and other wood-pushers that are simply too gnarly to exist outside of some sort of enclosure. It’s only fair that my bros the pigeons get a pro board too.
The deck itself rides like a dream made straight from the concrete jungle. The very place that according to Alicia Keys has an assembly line specifically designed to pump out dreams as relentlessly as time passes. The only difference is that this dream is a solid piece of wood, but it did come from a similar assembly line. Zoo York regularly produce excellent planks to ride and this is no exception. It also happens to have the raddest graphic I’ve seen from them in some time. Hold tight Zoo York and hold tight pigeons.
Stanley
There were many ups and downs at this year’s eventful DVS CPH Pro in Copenhagen this weekend. Rune Glifberg’s high speed collision with Robbie Russo left Russo in hospital with a fractured skull, John Rattray smashed up his chin and Shane O’Neill cracked a rib. This didn’t stop the finals from being a thrilling display of insane skateboarding – even when T-Pud’s was puking on the hip, Luan was banging out huge f/s bigspins and making the comp his own demo.
We wish Robbie Russo a speedy recovery, as well as everyone else who took one for the team.
Edits are appearing on the web left, right and centre so put on your google glasses and get stuck into some action this Monday morning. To get you started, have a peep below the results for Blair Alley’s edit of the finals and best trick.
Street Finals
1. Luan Oliveira
2. Torey Pudwill
3. Sean Malto
4. Shane O’Neill
5. Javier Sarmiento
6. Vincent Alvarez
7. David Gonzales
8. Tony Trujillo
9. Grant Taylor
10. Roberto Aleman
11. Lucas Puig
12. John Rattray
Cliché Best Trick
1. Rodrigo Leal
2. Neverton Casella
3. Elissa Steamer
4. Colin Kennedy
5. Daniel Lebron
Vert Contest
1. Rune Glifberg
2. Jussi Korhonen
3. Martin Andre
4. Nicky Guerrero
5. Oskar Gydell
6. Grant Taylor
7. Pontus Bjorn
8. Ryan ‘Peabody’ McWhirter
9. Robbie Russo
10. Arina Rahman
Our good mate The Last Skeptik just put out a new video for his remix of David Lyre’s track Constellation.
The remix is lifted from Skeppy’s Same Day Different Shit record which is out now and features the producer’s reworkings of Daniel Merriweather, Marina & The Diamonds and Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly. amongst others.
A little chill time was needed to fully absorb the visual/aural intensity of Brothersport and its incredible accompanying music video. Now we’ve had time to let it sink in, Animal Collective have emerged from the waves with the brand new video for the live favourite ‘Guys Eyes‘. Don’t expect any mind altering visuals though, this one is a gentle re-introduction to the sound that for many defined the last year of the decade.
Head over to My Animal Home or look below to enjoy some chilled jams set to some skating, surfing and beaching. Good Summer vibes for all.
The latest Traffic Report is live, get in there for Mark the Shark hitting up the streets of Barcelona filmed by Rob Mendoza and look out for their City Dweller cruisers on your travels as they look dope.