Drone specialist Robert McIntosh has shared an extended version of the Pretty Sweet film online whilst working for directors Spike Jonze and Ty Evans. The first half is slightly slow motion, the second half shows real time with actual audio.
Author: Zac
Sleaford Mods – ‘Tied Up In Nottz’ (Harbinger Records)
Like seventies New York electronic art punks Suicide but from the streets of Nottingham, Sleaford Mods are pure street poetry set over a clanking bass and minimal rhythms. Like John Cooper Clarke but with twice the venom and acidity, vocalist Jason Williamson’s way with words and lyrical rhymes are powerful, thought-provoking and at times, totally hilarious. He also swears better than any other f**ker I’ve heard. Believe the hype. – James Sherry
Human Eye – ‘Gettin’ Some’ (Goner Records)
When life serves you human sized bugs, exterminator’s and gunge in garage rock format from Detroit, you should thank your lucky stars someone spent their weekend up to their guts in it and then dive in head first. Human Eye released this filthy bug jam last week from their ‘4:Into Unknown’ album and it’s utter filth. You can also thank King Khan for sending this one over to us. – Zac
Thee Oh Sees – ‘Penetrating Eye’ (Castle Face)
John O’Dwyer threatened a hiatus for Thee Oh Sees after last year’s ‘Floating Coffin’ but despite flirting with electronica with his Damaged Bug project he wasn’t ready to hammer the nail in that wooden box yet. He did move to LA from San Fran, but other than that it’s business as usual. The new album is called ‘Drop’ and it’s about to ahem drop on Record Store Day. It was recorded in a banana ripening warehouse and the banana skinny on this record is that the quality has not slipped. ‘Penetrating Eye’ is the wince inducing intro track, part Ty Segall part Led Zep, as shredding an opening as you could hope to witness, it scared me shitless. – Nick Hutchings
Fist City – ‘Let’s Rip’ (Transgressive Records)
Girl gangs are taking over the world, well, in Canada anyway. This latest gang bang was shot in a bar whilst the owner was out and the band got away with it. Fist City just cruised through the UK last week and played a bunch of sold out shows that were awesome. Get some of their punk inspired malarkey on the re-issue of “It’s 1983, Grow Up” out on May 19th, you will not regret it. – Zac
The Skull Defekts – ‘The Known Unknown’ (Thrill Jockey)
Abba are from Sweden, you know? So are rabid, krautrock-flavoured noise-rock miscreants The Skull Defekts. Their new album is likely to be busting a lot of houses down when it drops this month, you’d be doing yourself a favour by making your house one of ’em. The Known Unknown is like the groovy offspring of a junkie robot and a broken amp, highly recommended. – Ross Horton
Black Bananas – ‘Physical Emotions’ (Drag City)
Snake-hipped pillow-lipped Venusian Goddess Jennifer Herrema made her triumphant return to the world of ‘pop music’ with this absolutely monstrous groove-thang. Like all of her work with (my favourite band) Royal Trux, RTX and beyond, this track totally defies genres and will warp your mind if you listen to it loud enough. Go go go. – Ross Horton
OBN III’s – ‘No Time For The Blues’ (TTT Records)
Austin Texas band OBN III’s third album ‘Third Time To Harm’ is a party record that reminds me of the much underrated Lee Harvey Oswald Band. ‘No Time For The Blues’ is like Andrew WK doing Iggy doing the ‘Spaghetti Incident’, a party record with monster riffs where you can feel free to check your brain by the door and flex your neck up the front. – Nick Hutchings
Protomartyr – ‘Come & See’ (Hardly Art Records)
Welcome to the world of Protomartyr who fit somewhere between punk and post-punk, shunning the noir-ish drama of the latter without losing the fervor of the former. Despite this being one of the more restrained tracks on their new album Under Color of Official Right there’s an clear darkness to ‘Come & See’, all held together with a delicious groove. – Joe Parry
Greys – ‘Guy Picotto’ (Car Park Records)
‘Guy Picotto’ is the first track to emerge from punks Greys forthcoming debut album, coming out in May. A slab of tongue-in-cheek hardcore with some Jesus Lizard ingenuity clashing with fellow Canadian’s Fucked Up’s ear for melody. – Joe Parry
Kevin Drew – ‘Bullshit Ballad’ (Arts & Crafts)
Kevin Drew, one half of Canadian super group Broken Social Scene, has just dropped a brand new solo album. Darlings is expectedly full of synth slurs and instrumental murmurs, atop which sit Drew’s ever suggestive vocal, laced with subtle sleaze. A mellow album certainly worth listening to, highlights come in the form of ‘Bullshit Ballad’. – Dave Palmer
Violent Reaction – ‘Dead End’ (Painkiller Records)
Let’s end this on some excellent shit-kicking Oi! influenced hardcore from Merseyside, Violent Reaction are pure musical thuggery. Think Negative Approach meets Sham 69 and the 4-Skins biting your nose off. They’ve just been snapped up by legendary hardcore label Revelation so expect to be hearing a lot from these boys and their Dr. Marten’s boots this year. – James Sherry
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They call it “the first soda that is also a tool” and that’s exactly what you get on the tin. PepsiCo have devised an extreme sports function in their new Mountain Dew bottles that can assist with “the 50% of a skateboarders time spent on fixing stuff that breaks”. Big quote huh?
We cannot remember spending so much time on broken skateboard gear, in fact most of the stuff we ride is damn good and hardly ever breaks. Saying that though, would this come in handy if your wheel nuts suddenly went South? You decide on this new cunning marketing ploy in the comments below.
You know that Aaron ‘Jaws’ Homoki is fucking gnar, but just remind yourself just how much he gets stuck into some of the biggest obstacles most people would wince at in Buster and Hunter O’Shea’s latest flick, ‘A Happy Medium 3’. Pre-order it.
If you want more from Jaws head here from last week’s compilation of amazing ollies he has launched over the years.
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Rugged Raw
In the era of straight to internet parts, ten tricks down the local and HD instagram clips, a full length independent video is a really rare beast. Rugged Raw is the second offering from Harlow’s finest son, Jake Martinelli and is filmed with a mixture of Super 8, VX1000 and Hi8 footage with a strict fuck HD policy. The majority of the footage was filmed in Essex and London alongside a few trips to New York, Kiev and Barcelona thrown in for good measure giving end result a heavy East coast feel to it.
The roughest spots that most would turn their nose up to are handled well by the Essex locals. Dan Adler tears through Harlow town in his sweatpants with a big smile on his face as he takes the most awkward slams we’ve seen for some time. Tommy Tindale also skates fast and hits anything and everything in sight. His bs 360 kickflip over the MK hip is a thing of beauty. Harlow’s secret weapon, Harry Hughes comes through with another outstanding part, 360 flipping over handrails, heel flip crooked grinds in lines etc. I’m not sure how someone can be so good whilst not appearing bothered at all. So, so rad!
Nothing but Hayt for the kids. Sam Hayter flip fakie’s a playground for Rob Galpin’s lens.
Send Help Skateboards’ English aficionado, Horsey, continues his work from the amazing new Albion DVD with more pole jams and wall rides with the help of Dan Webb. Crusty un-skateable gems are handled by both in style.
Milk Skateboards rider Sam Hayter comes through strong with another solid full part in this. He’s all about those technical smooth lines at rugged raw spots. I’m expecting we are going to see a lot more of him in the near future.
There are multiple montages throughout this production featuring London locals, New York heads and I think even the Muska pops up at one point.
Quite possibly my favourite part of the video goes to Jon Redwin. You may recognise him from such TV appearances as the Halloween BT advert last year. When a man skates to Tom Jones you have to stop and appreciate the magic and Jon really doesn’t disappoint!
Josh Cox takes a sneaky rooftop 5.0 in Kiev. Photo Rob Shaw.
If you have ever had the pleasure of seeing Josh Cox skate you will know how amazing he is. This part shows him at his technical finest. Pure skill and finesse ooze out of this man. A real highlight. Paul Storey finishes the video with a ultra smooth 2 song extravaganza. Tech lines, stair crunching, back 180 switch manual half cab flip out. It’s too much to say let alone do. Somebody needs to hook this man up some boards ASAP!
Rugged Raw is a true independent skateboard video. It’s over a hour of pure shredding and at only £6 a copy delivered to your door, you would be mugging yourself off by not picking one up this week. Well done Jake. Keep up the good work.
Available now online whilst stocks last.
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New Fucking Awesome decks
Nakel Smith‘s insta account beamed out some news on what Fucking Awesome are up to woodwise. Looks like it’s going to be a big week ahead. Is that Kerry King from Slayer lurking in there?
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KP TOKYO : REMIX
The Tokyo skate scene take pride in the quality of their edits so sit back and take in this 7 minute KP Crew edit by Aaron Kudo featuring night missions in the capital with a 90s feel.
You should be familiar with this stinking hole, it’s the The Monticello Dam hell-ride that eats people for breakfast in Lake Berryessa, California. It’s said that Ratface here charged through kitty litter and broken glass for this one. Gnarballs glory hole hunting.
Chris Atherton, the man who sums up the most down to earth skateboarding for us Brits whether it rains or shines is back to prove once again that you can session anything for hours and have fun trying to learn new tricks whatever way they go down. ‘Illegitimate bench‘ sees a happy-go-lucky masterclass of fun wrapped up from Accrington’s favourite lad who also fronts the illustrious Slugworth Productions. Enjoy these “Illegitimacy issues”.
Get on his Golden Egg feature and the latest rain soaked makeshift bank and Blue Ray Shoes edit.
Fred Mortagne has released his director’s cut of Contiki’s “No Regrets Days” campaign last year featuring Sammy Winter. “We shot it in Paris at the City of Fashion and Design. We wish we would have had more time to shoot more skateboarding action as it was planned, but sometimes, time isn’t on your side.”