There are plenty of Crossfire visitors appearing in this latest Southbank edit put together by CF lurker George Toland. Always first to like a post before most others George has hit the nail on the head with this local scene edit featuring a bunch of his pals and even managed to sneak a couple of tricks of Tom Penny in there too. Good work George.
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Flip’s Canadian tour video on the Skateboard Mag is a must watch today. Louie Lopez, Curren Caples, Matt Berger, and Alec Majerus absolutely smash it alongside Lance Mountain, Arto Saari and Ben Nordberg.
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Camp WESC returns this summer
WESC‘s summer camp is back this year so if you want to skate with UK pro’s, learn new tricks, hang out with others and skate away from home and generally have a blast then head over to facebook.com/CampWeSCUK for all the details.
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CELLOUT Montage 3
Brent O’Donnell’s phone cam edit spree has stretched to a third edit this week. Sit back and take in some more Gilbert Crockett radness and friends, plus a rad powerslide cameo appearance from what looks like Big Brother’s Dave Carnie, or an imposter. You decide.
If you have read Scott Bourne‘s novel ‘A Room With No Windows‘ that was released last year then this will make sense. If not, then discover something new from a very interesting character that has once graced the skate scene and turned author.
Notes From the Black Box has many tales about this skateboarder’s life….we all have one, just not quite like Scott’s.
Beibel, Chris Cole and MJ are the latest face at the 2UP party over at The Berrics this week following Daewon Song‘s game changer. You should know by now who will be getting our vote.
A kickstarter campaign has launched this week to fund a new skateboard documentary featuring many of the skate industry’s main players discussing the history and evolution of skateboard art.
Fifty years of skateboarding history will be documented featuring over 60 iconic artists directed by Matt Bass who delves into skateboard graphics, shapes, music, films, photography and everything else in between that had made skateboarding progress from when it first landed under our feet.
Donate now if you want a piece of this here.
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Biggie vs Beethoven
The Notorious B.I.G vs Beethoven
Beethoven’s Sonata Op. 90/2 – Suicidal Thoughts
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From beyond the grave, Biggie Smalls is still slamming some words, this week to the tunes of Beethoven of all people. This new mashup of Biggie’s ‘Suicidal Thoughts’ is laid over Beethoven’s ‘Piano Sonata No. 27 in E Minor, Op. 90: II’ by Dan Kreiger who plays Beethoven’s work on this.
Free download from this Soundcloud link.
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Vertical Scratchers
Vertical Scratchers
‘Daughter Of Everything’
(Merge Records)
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This is the debut album by Vertical Scratchers and it’s utterly brilliant. I shouldn’t really be surprised by this. Vertical Scratchers, you see, feature a certain John Schmersal – a part of the talent behind magnificent 90s Dayton Ohio Touch And Go Records shronk-rockers Brainiac (whose wonderful burst of creativity and incredible music was cruelly cut short with the sudden death of frontman Tim Taylor in a car accident), he then went on to form Enon, continuing to make eclectic and challenging, yet always melodic and pleasurable music.
Vertical Scratchers very much continues down the path that Schmersal has travelled since the beginning. ‘Daughter Of Everything’ is quirky, jarring and sometimes disconcerting yet from beginning to end and top to bottom it is gloriously melodic. Every song crackles with addictive melodies and sublime harmonies, split between John and his partner in the band – ex-Triclops!/Anywhere man Christian Beaulieu. They met at a Thanksgiving party, started hanging out and writing songs and very quickly, and very naturally a great musical partnership began to flourish and the songs began to flow.
The highlights are many. ‘You Dug Us All’ is pure Shins, Pinback, Heavy Vegetable style quirky harmonies and prime-rump American indie rock, whilst opening track ‘Wait No Longer’ kicks into life with some high-octane drumming from Beaulieu. ‘Pretend You Are Free’ and ‘Rainbows’, on the other hand, shimmer with Beach Boys/Beatles inspired harmonies that are both sublime and beautiful.
Vertical Scratchers have delivered a classic American indie rock album that sounds effortless, fresh and exciting. Not that we should be surprised by this, it’s nothing that John Schmersal hasn’t achieved before.
Pick this up from Merge immediately.
James Sherry
If you watch YouTube adverts over the next week or so look out for Paul Shier and Nick Jensen from Isle Skateboards heading up the pre-paid adverts that usually get switched off after 5 seconds. Both London pro riders feature in these new adverts discussing their love of ‘Skype To Go’ to assist Isle’s progression.
The latest Isle decks can be found here.