Politic uploaded Jason Spivey‘s section from Allen Danze’s ‘Belly of the Beast’ video filmed in the Washington DC and Maryland areas.
Author: Zac
D*face, one of London’s finest street artists grew up skating the infamous banks at the Undercroft and has collaborated in a new video to raise awareness of the ongoing relocation issue for skateboarders at the Southbank this week with LLSB. Chewy Cannon and co had spray cans attached to their decks to paint the floor re-enacting the same process that he and Salba premiered 2 years ago in a US pool.
Watch the video and hear D*face’s story of why the Southbank’s history for skateboarding should not be removed.
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P-Rod discusses leaving Plan B
Paul Rodriguez confirms he is starting his own venture after leaving PLan B Skateboards in this new video clip of an interview filmed from a recent Power 106FM radio show in LA.
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True Widow
True Widow
‘Circumambulation’
Relapse Records
It doesn’t seem too long ago that True Widow graced us with a long player. I guess it has something to do with the fact that music this laid-back is so timeless. It captures life in slow motion, leaving a form of stoned paralysis so brutal that you instantly crave more once the fix is delivered.
These Texan stonegazers have seriously upped the dose on this new offering. The medicated tones that made up their last release “As High As the Highest Heavens and From the Center to the Circumference of the Earth” back in 2011 were strong, but this three piece have delivered another slow-burning classic that is guaranteed to poach the circumference of your inner ear.
Kicking off with a murder ballad masterpiece by the ever-moving ‘Creeper’ their new collection of haunted darkness slowly drives into ‘S:H:S’, a comfortably numbing track picked for their latest promo video packed with Dan Phillips’ dulcet tones and deep nodding riffs. ‘Four Teeth’ is the closest to pop that you will find on this album with Nicole Estill’s vocal mesmerizing as they drip over the track; its economics may be simple but it will lodge inside your system like a bad dream. This is followed by an administered injection of sleepy drone and fuzzy stoner bliss that makes ‘Numb Hand’ feel short ahead of the stomping metallic throb from the riffs of ‘Trollstigen’, the longest track on ‘Circumambulation’. It’s fairly easy to get lost in the seven minutes that pass by making it one of the weakest of the pack unfortunately.
The pace picks up for ‘I:M:O’, but only by a feather. The light soundscapes here roll without vocals before ‘HW:R’ see Phillips and Estill join forces on verse and chorus duties perfectly. “I’ve done so many things with my time, or so I think…” says Phillips nonchanlty. It’s a phrase that belongs to us all and lyrically DP is speaking for everyone growing up on this track. Blissful, melodic and smoking from top to tail – it’s a perfect example of the beauty that these Dallas stoners can produce. The album winds down to a staggering low pace with the final fix of sleepy drone and fuzzy stoner bliss on ‘Lungr’. It’s heroin in WAV form and it should be your soundtrack of the summer. Stream it here.
9/10
Zac
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Seen The Rap Board?
This is just a heads up about The Rap Board dot com. Hours wasted, so much fun. Hit your fave rapper’s head for fun.
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Adolescents
ADOLESCENTS
‘Presumed Insolent’
Concrete Jungle
Orange County’s Adolescents need little introduction. Their self-titled debut album released back in 1981 (on Frontier Records) is widely acknowledged as a pièce de résistance of early Eighties Southern California Punk. Its core subject matter is built around teenage rejection, alienation and all round disillusion of the American Dream has continued to inspire subsequent generations of young Punks since. If you’ve not heard it, track down a copy once you’ve finished digesting this review immediately. Trust me, your life will be greatly enriched.
In 2013, the Adolescents are still very much a going concern; bassist/ founding member Steve Soto, and original vocalist Tony Reflex, are joined by road-hardened compatriots who do a sterling job nailing these songs to the floor. “Presumed…” is by my reckoning their 6th studio album, and finds these middle-aged men kicking out 13 charged melodic jams. They are still angry, on the outside of society, refusing to be sucked in and suckered. “From the cradle to the grave, we are media slaves” hollers Tony on the ballistic “Conquest of The Planet of The See Monkeys”. And the general pissed off vibe does not relent. “Forever Summer” might radiate sunny and dandy, but is actually about the San Onofre Nuclear Station in coastal San Diego County. “Riptide” is not about dangerous sea currents, but the treacherous economic struggles of keeping your “head above the water”. You can see a theme developing here. This is very much a record made by working guys capturing frustrations many of us feel. I mean, really, do you think the ‘Stones understand about the tightenin’ of the screws? No fuckin’ way.
I have dug this band for a long, long time, and this album shows heaps of life yet in these old dogs. They are back touring Europe again in August, ripping it up in a venue near you.
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Armed with a new much anticipated album album titled ‘Defend Yourself’, Sebadoh have returned with their first video in yonks for their track ‘All Kinds’ that can be found off their last EP.
Have a taste of their studio sessions and more for this selfie here and await the new full length on September 16th via Domino. Look out for them live at Manchester’s Academy 3 (October 15th) and London’s Scala (16th) and take in this new track that leads the album called ‘I Will’.
Ph: Lewis Jenkins, no comply pole jam by Richard P Walton.
Dainton has sent us over a new clip put together by Kyle Howells today filmed at Wales’ hottest DIY spot right now. Press play for footage of Matt Davies, Jake Collins, Dale Meredith, Bobby Sonders, Tom Bailey and more Kill City Skateboards and Freestyle Skate Store rippers. Good times.
Following Jon Horner’s Supervillain Series decks last week, the good ship Death Skateboards have issued two new pro models this week, both in 8.25″ width wood. Benson‘s ‘Voodoo’ deck with art from by Silent Paul and Dan Cates‘ ‘Chernobyl’ deck by DJ Titchener with photos from Cates himself will be in your local skate shop if you kindly ask the owner this weekend to order to them in.
20 years back this album crashed through speakers all over the world with venom in its blood. It was Nirvana‘s last call, one that was filled to the brim with hatred, disgust and anxiety that all stemmed from Kurt Cobain’s distrust of people around him, fueled by his decision to wade into the mainstream with Nevermind which blew a bigger hole in the arse of the soft rock scene that was ruining radio airwaves in every city.
In Utero, produced by the one and only Steve Albini will be re-issued in September and remastered for the masses. It’s said to have never before heard demo’s, B-sides, compilation tracks, and live material featuring the final touring lineup of Cobain, Novoselic, Grohl, and Pat Smear…including the long-awaited release of the complete “Live and Loud” show from Seattle’s Pier 48 on December 13, 1993.
But the question is, will this boxset have music that has never been previously released? We will have to wait until September 23rd to find out but until then the legacy of Nirvana still rolls forward and this reissue should be something worth shouting about.