If we keep plugging the blue collar establishment that is Antiz Skateboards, it’s because they are one of the most underrated group of riders out there.
Expect to be blown away by their second video, Z-Movie, free and available through Crossfire at the end of January.
Art of the Underground has announced it will be releasing its Year Two boxed set for its Single Series.
The set contains all the singles which were released on the label’s limited edition run and includes tracks by The Ergs, Bayonettes, Off With Their Heads, Monikers, Ringers and Lemuria. Only 250 of the are being made, but can be preordered from the website.
Switzerland might be small, expensive and neutral to World affairs, but the skate scene there is strong as an ox.
The boys over at 5th District want you all to know what’s up in the Alps with plenty of sick footage in their super fast video section, including Stefan Bircher‘s lost tapes and Severin Von Ow (ph. Andi Speck) and Jah Hofer at Winterthur amongst other things.
You might remember a mental ramp contest that went down last year and literally took the roof off. That contest was King of the Ramp, and Juergen Horwarth won.
Well, now all you transition lovers (and amateurs) can fasten your seat belts because the comp’s video is now free for download. 22minutes of mad carnage featuring Jürgen Horwarth, Roman Hackl, Roman Astleitner, Oliver Gordon, Ralf Edlinger, Sascha Biehaule, Stefan Atzl, David Martelleur, Manuel Knoflach, Martin Jurásek, Kamil Poč, Ferit Batir, Andreas Fugger, Benjamin & Adrian Buchwald and the amazing Batzenhäusl.
For the high quality version (80mb) click here.
For the low quality version (50mb) click here.
Possibly the most cringe worthy sub-title we’ve ever run in the skate news (Sorry Ted), but it’s pretty simple and long overdue in my honest opinion. Canadian Ted joins the professional ranks of the newly re-furbished Santa Cruz Skate team.
On a side note, here is the brand new trailer for V-Day: a celebration of Santa Cruz re-united Veteran’s league – Tom Knox, Eric Dressen (oof! What a wallride!!) and Jason Jessee. Get schooled soon.
Burnt out on the industry and resting on some herbal laurels, euro-powerhouse Bastien Salabanzi (ph. Rob Brink) has left yet another major sponsor- Etnies Shoes.
It would seem like the young Congolese Frenchman seems more inspired by his guitar, but you can bet that he’ll be back at some point with only extra feathers in his cap.
The newest supergroup to emerge in hip hop is that of Talib Kweli and Madlib, who have put out their collaboration on the internet for free. That’s right, you heard me, free. You can download the Zip file of the album, Liberation, from the link below.
After the discounted advance tickets sold out in record time, the full price 2 day and 1 day tickets for 2007’s Camden Crawl are now available. The event will take place in the 19th and 20th of April starting at midday each day, seeing extra events being brought in, like acoustic sessions and fan forums.
Modest Mouse have released their first single from their new album, which was due out in December last year but got pushed back into early 2007.
The group, who have recently added Smiths’ guitarist Johnny Marr to the line up, have named the record We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank. Check their myspace on the link below to hear the single, Dashboard.
Yellowcard have been posting updates on their myspace blog as they record their new album. The album, the follow up to last year’s Lights And Sounds, the album which the band talked about on the blog:
“We were so proud of how artistic we were, And I think we showed too much. I think maybe we were a little too jaded and a little too dark, and I think that the lack of hope and faith that we put on this record made us a little less sparkly and light to people”