The amount of footage that has been filmed for the Keep Keen video is pretty impressive to date. Even more offcuts hit the web last night from Phil Harvey‘s treasure chest so enjoy offcuts from Chris Barrett‘s section with additional filming by Sean Lomax from Manchester.
Keep Keen: Chris Barrett offcutts from PhilH on Vimeo.
Volcom unleashed a new edit featuring their team riders on a catalog shoot out in Mammoth Lakes in California. This park looks absolutely amazing, enjoy footage of Grant Taylor, Alex Perelson and Kieren Reilly and many more.
Transworld look back on John Cardiel‘s section in the video Sight Unseen from back in 2001 with a full commentary from John himself explaining the spots and tricks.
Zered Bassett, Brandon Westgate and Eli Reed feature in this latest cut from the Zoo York camp. This new video edit from a trip to Tokyo, Japan last October has some really good energy and well worthy of a viewing.
éS footwear have been on a mission to rebuild their team over the last year and have announced overnight that Ben Raemers has joined the ranks on their am team.
Ben has been injured of late with ankle damage so there’s no welcome video as such right now but watch that space as we are sure that there will be loads more to come from the Essex skater who has attended most of our Crossfire events since we rolled them out.
So, massive congratulations to Ben and to éS as many other shoe companies were keen to have him on their teams by all accounts. Expect big things to come.
The latest from the Emerica x Altamont concept store in the basement of Slam City Skates has arrived here in video form. Have a peak of what Slam’s owner Gareth Skewis and some Emerica crew have to say on the hook up that is proving to be quite popular this month in WC2H.
Slam City Skates X Emerica X Altamont from Emerica Europe on Vimeo.
Crystal Castles are back with a new 12” inch single which shall be released as part of record day celebrations.
The single will be limited to a vinyl only pressing of 500 copies, featuring a new song “Doe Deer” and “pure guitar-noise” versions of older tracks. These tracks were recorded before the band added electronics to their sound, and feature the songs “Mother Knows Best”, “Insectica”, and “Seed”.
Record Store Day takes place on April 17th, and the band will also play a one-off show at London’s Heaven venue on April 20th.
Jimmy Cao joins Alphanumeric clohting with this footage for your viewing pleasure.
Reading and Leeds’ mainstage line up has been revealed.
The Friday at Reading [Sunday at Leeds] will see Guns N Roses headlining over Queens Of The Stone Age, Biffy Clyro, Lostprophets, Nofx, Gogol Bordello, and Billy Talent playing, the Saturday [Friday for Leeds] has Dizzee Rascal, The Cribs, The Maccabees, Modest Mouse, and The Gaslight Anthem with Arcade Fire headlining and Sunday [Leeds’ Saturday] will see Blink 182 finish the festival off ably supported by Weezer, Cypress Hill, Limp Bizkit, Paramore and You Me At Six.
The Radio 1/NME Stage will see the likes of Pendulum, Enter Shikari, Klaxons, We Are Scientists, LCD Soundsystem, Phoenix and Foals playing.
Refused are not on the verge of reforming.
Many people thought that the holding page of the website Official Refused, which said “Refused, coming soon…”, meant that a reunion was on the cards for the Swedish band, who split in 1998. However, despite Zane Lowe tweeting about how huge it is, it seems that the page is for a re-issue of their seminal The Shape Of Punk To Come album, rather than a get-together.