Peter Ramondetta lets loose in his backyard spot over at the Deluxe website this week.
The Real Skateboards pro hucks out some local yay for the camera in this online video clip. Check out the lines here.
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Author: Crossfire
Bobby Worrest has a new shoe out on 
The Death Team will be visiting Revolution Skatepark on the South Coast this Saturday for an evening of mayhem and malarkey.
The likes of Dan Cates, Mark Nicolson, Steak, Horsey, Boots, Zorlac, Blackwell, Cundall and more louts will stain that skate park good and proper. Get down there you mug.
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Pro Tec Pool Party goes off
The annual Pro Tec Pool Party went in off in traditional style this weekend in the US with Etnies and Flip pro Rune Glifberg taking the honours for first place again for the second year running plus $25,000 for the privilege. Glifberg killed the place by all accounts with aft stalefish airs, tweaked fs airs, technical switch mastery and the winning run of the day.
Chris Miller won the masters event and Steve Caballero managed 18 blocks of pool coping for the longest boardslide! look out for footage soon.
Pro Comp
1. Rune Glifberg $25,000
2. Omar Hassan $15,000
3. Bucky Lasek $7,500
4. Bob Burnquist $3,000
5. Benji Galloway $2,000
Masters
1. Chris Miller $10,000
2. Steve Caballero $6,000
3. Nicky Guerrero $3,000
4. Eric Nash $1,000
5. Lester Kasai $500
Thrasher/Vans Longest Boardslide Contest
1st Steve Caballero 18 blocks $1800
2nd (tie) Eddie Reategui 15 1/4 blocks
2nd (tie) Steve Steadham 15 1/4 blocks
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Vans team Split to Croatia
The UK Vans team are currently in Croatia shooting some memoirs for a future feature in Document Magazine and to film some podcasts.
Powley’s crew consisting of Ross McGauran, Kris Vile, Chris Oliver and Ben Nordberg have been checking out the architecture and finding new spots this week in Split, the second largest city in Croatia which has just under 200,000 inhabitants and is also the largest city on the Adriatic coast.
The official Croatian tourist website says: there is no dispute about this: the most beautiful girls in Croatia come from Split (sorry, Zagreb!). Powley blogged on ShitKnees that they were subject to ‘good spots, nice people, good weather – Stoked!’ Our thoughts go out to all involved as it must be tough being a pro skateboarder…
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Furby footage hits web
Ramiro Furby Salcedo’s first major video part from Digital Skateboardings’ ‘Imagine‘ has been posted on the Kr3w website.
The Deathwish skater from South Central Los Angeles has been getting attention of late with his smooth style to bolts skateboarding and many people have been waiting for his footage to drop.
‘Imagine’ features Danilo Cerezini, Rodrigo Lima, Ramiro Furby Salcedo, John White, and Adam Dyet, look out for more of this footage to emerge soon.
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Pissed Jeans – Live
Tropics
The Old Blue Last
Sunday 18th May
Although you may be hard pushed to call them a ‘super group’ in the seventies rock concept style, Tropics feature many an ex-member of past UK post-hardcore faithfuls among their ranks.
Featuring Jodie Cox from Bullet Union on guitar, Dan Reeves from An Emergency on guitar, Matt Flag from Navajo Code on bass and Robin Silas Christian from Bullet Union on drums, with all this past experience, Tropics certainly know their chops. And pillaging the Dischord Records back catalogue for their main inspiration, they take the Fugazi blueprint and carve out their own style into it with passion and an eye-bulgingintensity and conviction. With the whole band sharing vocal duties, each song explodes into life propelled by Robin’s distinctive drumming style as the band throw (shudder) ‘angular’ shapes around his contorted grooves. Well worth checking out. Go see.
“If you close your eyes and concentrate,” says Pissed Jeans singer Matt Korvette, standing on the lip of the postage-stamp size stage as the crowd follow his lead and close their eyes. “You can smell the men’s toilets from here.”
He’s right, they stink. You can smell the rancid piss flooding into the venue as Pennsylvanian sick fucks Pissed Jeans begin to unleash slabs of disgusting noise from their amps. It’s almost as if their noise has the power to heighten our senses of smell and just when we’re at our weakest, they unleash the stink smeared across their piss crusted jeans and floor us all.
And then it fucking kicks off. Pissed Jeans are hardcore but they’re not fast or generic. They produce a lurching, doom-drenched monstrous noise that recalls Jesus Lizard at their most brutal. And it’s not just the noise they make, frontman Matt is a dead ringer for David Yow, shirt off, writhing around the stage, always looking for the next person to fuck up or bizarre item to improvise with. Then there’s drummer Sean McGuiness, pounding the kit like a back room John Bonham, screaming for marijuana between songs, breaking most of his kit as he smashes the shit out of it (and Tropics have to keep lending him parts of theirs with pure fear in their eyes). He plays so hard he cuts his finger to shreds, spewing blood everywhere. Then there’s bassist Dave Rosenstraus. He’s wearing a Void T-shirt. Nuff said. And on guitar we have Bradley Fry, pulling faces that look like a man in the throws of an uncontrollable mental fit as he spews out shards of broken glass riffs and grunge.
Think Killdozer. Think Scratch Acid. Think Melvins. Think Jesus Lizard. Now go and piss your fucking pants.
James Sherry
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Beck debuts new song
Beck has debuted a new track.
Chemtrails, produced by the ever-in-demand Danger Mouse, was played on Radio 1 and can be streamed from Beck’s MySpace. Whilst the song is not a single, it is a showcase of what is to come from the two as they work together on the new album which is due out at some point this summer.
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Nas finally changes album title
Nas has finally changed the name of his upcoming album.
The rapper was due to release Nigger after having changed it from the orignial Nigga. However, he has come under increasing perssure to drop the title and has finally surrendered, opting to give it the name Nas. On the change, he said:
“Everybody is trying to stop the title. Record stores are gonna have a problem in this day and time selling a record with that title.”
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Patrick Wolf to headline Redfest
Patrick Wolf has been confirmed as the headliner for Redfest.
The singer will be hitting the stage again after his Love Music Hate Racism triumph and he’ll be performing alongside the likes of Crystal Castles, Does It Offend You Yeah?, Elliot Minor, Lightspeed Champion, Late Of The Pear and more at the Redhill festival.