Dylan Rieder’s now infamous part with Gravis has been posted officially on the Gravis website.
If you didn’t catch the leak then head over and watch what could very well be the most impressive skating seen this year…click the image below to see the madness.
This week, the drippy, groggy flow pen of Snake Eyes gets up around Manchester, filming Tyrone O’Hanrahan and friends at Plattfields.
Tyrone brings smooth bangers alongside the likes of Joe Gavin, Nev, Dave Monaghhan and more…
Get it below.
“CALL TYRONE” from Snake Eyes Films. on Vimeo.
Symptoms And Cures
Victory Records
myspace.com/comebackkid
Simply put, ‘Symptoms And Cures’ is a must listen. If you’ve ever been a fan of the band’s material, old or new, you’re *really* going to want to check this one out. Comeback Kid have come into their own on this album, marrying their classic hardcore edge from first albums ‘Turn It Around’ and ‘Wake The Dead’ with a fuller, more intricate sound which had been hinted at on last full-length ‘Broadcasting…’. This is the sound of a band that, having undergone several line-up changes during their time as a unit, have really settled into a groove, incorporated their cumulative experiences and just let rip on a stunning album. It’s a masterful balancing act between short sharp blasts of hardcore goodness and more expansive textures, which will go some way to challenging perceptions of modern hardcore. It’s far from a recycled collection of material. ‘Symptoms And Cures’ is something truly fresh-sounding, which is rare in Comeback Kid’s world.
Comeback Kid have roped in several helpers on this record too. Rather than standing out like sore thumbs, the guests add extra layers to the music and are perfectly complementary. It’s a gang-vocal-heavy record which means that it’s all the more rousing a listen. A Wilhelm Scream helped out with some of these anthemic chants. Also appearing on the album are Sam from Architects and Liam from Cancer Bats adds his distinctive growl to the track ‘Balance’. It’s kind of hard to convey in words the way that Comeback Kid have produced such a complex but altogether simple album. It’s also difficult to listen to it without feeling the passion and dedication that’s clearly gone into this body of work. I haven’t read or heard one negative word about ‘Symptoms And Cures’ yet. This, along with my own gut feeling and love for the album, leads me to the conclusion that this is Comeback Kid’s defining work – of their career so far, anyway. Yes, they had ‘Wake The Dead’ and that will forever be a rock club staple, but their latest album offers up so much more, delivering real depth of sound as well as the catchiness people know and love them for. More please. And maybe take less than three years about it next time?!
Winegums
Ben Cornish has made a superb flick of the Prime Skatepark crew’s journey to the Vans Shop Riot 2010.
The video documents the full trip, with the Prime possee hitting up Tamworth Skatepark, The Vans Shop Riot comp at Rampworx, Hell Hole (West Midlands) and Midsomer Norton. Watch it here…
Prime | Vans Shop Riot 2010 from Ben Cornish on Vimeo.
Cross-genre production genius turned ambient soundscape legend Brian Eno has confirmed the release of a new album, entitled ‘Small Craft On A Milk Sea‘, on November 15th through Warp Records.
Joined by composers Leo Abrahams and Jon Hopkins, the ethereal LP can be pre-ordered in all its packaged wonder (head here to see the marvellous packaging) as of August 25th.
The tracklisting ahs been confirmed as follows:
For a glimpse at what the record may sound like, listen to Brian’s Pure Scenius concert series in which he’s joined by Jon Hopkins and Leo Abrahams alongside other musical friends. See it below.
Analog Clothing have posted a short edit of their team for all the world to feast on to satisfy that trick fix we all need.
Look out for Dylan Rieder (who’s well on his way to being labelled the unofficial skater of the year after his Gravis part), Jon Goemann, Sam Winter, Arto Saari, Luke Croker, Stefan Janoski and Steve Forstner.
So if you haven’t been properly introduced to the Analog crew yet, then make new friends below…
Analog Skate Team 2010 from Analog Clothing on Vimeo.
Ever get the feeling you’ve seen something before? Ever get the feeling you’ve seen something before? Ever get the feeling that you’ve seen something before, more than once?
It was a pleasure to see Jeremie Daclin’s collected Cliché footage re-cut by Dan Wolfe in the retrospective Déjà Vu but Cliché have recently posted the video section on Vimeo so we can experience that warm feeling of seeing something rad again and again. Check it out below, even though you may have seen this one before…
Cliché Deja Vu Jeremie Daclin by Dan Wolfe from Cliché Skateboards on Vimeo.
Jart Skateboards have recently posted a clip of their excursion to Zumiez Skatepark in Belgium, Hasselt Skatepark in Belgium and the Sweat Shop Skatepark in Holland. It’s positively ripping too.
Youness Amrani is a walking, talking, shredding jokeshop. Click the picture below to see why…
One of the biggest blips on the UK radar, Ireland’s Gav Coughlan will now be trying to shove his weighty trick bag into the stash pockets that are hidden in most pairs of Ipath shoes.
Have a look at his awesome ‘welcome to…‘ edit below and see what’s pouring out beneath those new kicks of his.
Columbia Pictures
whoissalt.com
Not that any more proof should be necessary that Angelina Jolie is the go to girl when a movie demands that it’s lead actress not only be so staggeringly attractive, you can’t look at her directly for fear of you’re brain shutting down but also be able to axe kick a British terrorist master mind off the wing of a moving plane with a steely grace; but Salt really does solidify her reputation as just that women. Be it bending bullets and obeying the orders of an ancient piece of weaving equipment in Wanted or boobing her way through the boob Tomb Raider series of boobs with boobs….she really is in a league of her own as a female action star in Hollywood films these days, standing shoulder to shoulder with big name male stars of the genre.
Salt is the sort of action movie that can be expected in these post-Jason Bourne years, it exists in a world where spies are not all about the gadgets ala Mr. Bond, by more about being furiously unstoppable in their resilience, knowledge, adaptability and general ass-kicking-ability. Originally, Tom Cruise was envisioned for the character, but turned the role down fearing it echoed too similarly to his part of Ethan Hunt in the Mission Impossible series. Thus, Edward becomes Evelyn, and Cruise becomes Jolie, a move which, for all intents and purposes, was a very wise one.
The film follows Evelyn Salt, a highly trained CIA agent accused of being a Russian sleeper agent activated to kill the president, so, she goes on the run from her own people and tries desperately to locate her husband, who she fears is in a bit of a pickle.
So far, so fairly standard. The plot however takes a turn for the more interesting when it’s revelled she may actually really be a Russian sleeper agent activated to kill the president and her characters motives become increasingly tricky to guess as the film plays out, is she a hero? Is she a villain? Or is she something in between? It’s not impossible to guess how the piece is going to play out by the end, but it’s nice to see a film where every once in a while it takes a detour down some character avenues you weren’t expecting it to wander.
There’s some pretty cool set pieces, especially a sequence where Salt, whilst in the back of a police car, makes her escape by tasering the driver and electrocuting him to go faster, bringing a whole new meaning to the phrase “back seat driver”. However, the plot is startlingly ridiculous once you start to think about it and other than the aforementioned sequence, there aren’t that many blood-pumping action moments. Not that a movie should rely on them…that can often be worse than having an underwhelming lack of the things (I’m looking at you Quantum of Solace…hang your head in shame) but, it felt as though it was missing a bit of “oomph”
From the ending you can see it’s wrangling for a franchise, but I don’t know how many more movies they could really get out of the films core concept, Salt pretty much does everything it was intended to do Essentially it’s The Bourne Identity: Lighter Version…..and Matt Damon suddenly has fantastic boobs and lips.
Jonathan Day