Due to the incoming Almost tour on the 25th January, this month’s Old Man Night at BaySixty6 skate park has been changed to Friday February 1st. Spread the word on the new date if you are planning to come down for the BBQ and session. Over 28’s only until 10pm.
A car load of Kill City crew headed across to North Wales to session Deeside Skatepark last weekend and came back with a great edit featuring Beanhead, Sam Pulley and co from ‘Evolution Extreme’s wooden playground.
Enjoy Dainton’s latest video feature and check out their winter catalogue.
P.O.S.
We Don’t Even Live Here
(Rhymesayers Entertainment)
www.doomtree.net
It had been a little while since the last album from Minnesota’s P.O.S but, like all the best artists, the wait was well worth it. His new album, ‘We Don’t Even Live Here’, is the natural progression from its predecessor, ‘Never Better’, seeing the rapper embrace the electronic side of music that he loves whilst maintaining his punk rock ethics, melding them into another powerful statement against authority.
From the opening track Bumper, where fuzzed distortion and thunderous drums smash through the speakers, Stefon Alexander lays down his values – “They on some nonsense, we on some non-stop”. He loves his family, his crew and his friends, he hates being told what he should do and how he should live within walls and his lyrics get right to the root of the problem. His greatest triumph on this record however is that he delivers his ideas without becoming a preacher, it’s not tired and it doesn’t feel like you’ve heard it all before.
There is plenty for hip hop heads to get involved with too, ‘Fuck Your Stuff’ reps his crew brilliantly on a ridiculously big beat, ‘Wanted/Wasted”s beat has a classic Doomtree sound and the stripped-down ‘Lockpicks, Knives, Bricks and Bats’ could easily find itself on earlier P.O.S. albums, sonically speaking. The variety never stunts to flow of the record either, the Bon Iver assisted ‘How We Land‘ is the standout track and ‘Get Down’ three-quarters of the way through the album is as big a dance track as you’ll hear all year.
We love P.O.S., always have, always will and when he drops albums like this, it’s hard to see that ever stopping. The chorus line from Get Down sums it up perfectly:
“No-one gives a fuck about shit, so fuck your shit, we fuck shit up cos shit’s fucked anyway, shit is run into the ground (I know right?), I don’t wanna think about it, I just wanna get down”
So what are you waiting for? Get down then!
Abjekt
100s
Ice Cold Perm
(Free Download)
I love rap that talks about being a gangster, I love backpacker rap that talks about life and social consciousness, but sometimes, just sometimes, I get a need to listen to filth. Back in the day there was Too $hort delivering unutterable smut but what about the new generation? Well, thankfully it looks like there’s a new kid on the block that’s going to take that crown, get it drunk, lay down with it and do something most definitely X-rated to it.
100s is a 19 year old from Cali and has a mouth on him that would make even the most hardened pimps blush. His mixtape, Ice Cold Perm, is one of the best albums of the year without a doubt, showcasing both his lyrical talent and his ability to flow elegantly over the beat. The content is mostly about bedding ladies, but at no point does it get one-dimensional.
Whether he’s talking about Romeo and Juliet getting down or the difference between his old hood-dwelling flames and his new mink-coat wearing, expensive carpet having conquests, 100s is a rapper you’ll immediately be down with. He has character, swagger and let’s not forget that hairstyle of his. The record is free to download and you can get a sample in the video below – It’s not politically correct, you have been warned, but it is brilliant. Get involved.
Abjekt
With brand new album ‘Sempiternal’ scheduled for release on RCA Records on April 29th, Bring Me The Horizon have announced today that they will be playing at the following UK tour dates.
April
29th Manchester Academy 2
30th Newcastle University
May
1st Inverness Ironworks
2nd Glasgow ABC
4th Portsmouth Pyramids Centre
5th Cardiff Solus
6th Wolverhampton Wulfrun
7th London KoKo
Here’s what we have all been waiting for….and Hawk absolutely smashes it. Indy for Life.
This week a “self-portrait” video titled Barcelona Cruising Fever was published to the web featuring the skating, filming and editing the Alexander Costin. The subject cruises the streets of the Catalonian capital to the Cramps on one of Globe’s new Bantam sticks.
The polyprop skateboard seems to be one of the most marketed tools in the industry right now but the question is: are the tools the people that ride them, or are you down with the influx of these tiny plastic skateboards?
After a couple of week’s of voting Bath’s UK am Ben Nordberg has been nominated as having the best UK video part of 2012. Released to the internet at the end of May, this full section, his first for Flip Skateboards, was released online in association with Relentless and put together by the sterling work of James Gardner who captured Nordberg’s aleep-at-the-wheel skateboarding perfectly, filmed in various locations in and around his new life in the USA.
Flip Skateboards also took the most votes for Company edit of 2012 for their team edit “Weight of the World”. Filmed on tour throughout the insane terrain of the deserts of the deep Southwest of America, Nordberg, Rowley, Caples, Fletcher, Berger, Majerus, Lopez and David Gonzalez sweat their guts out in ridicoulous heat to film a feature with Flip lifer Ewan Bowman.
The votes have been cast, well done to Flip for taking 2012’s honours. Our next video comp will focus on your skating, with your own footage. Click here to get the details of this year’s Winter Video Edit Comp in association with Ricta to win cash and wheels at the end of February.
Rock legends BLACK SABBATH have announced the title of their new album, ’13’ over the weekend, which will be released this coming June. Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler are all involved, but Bill Ward’s involvement on drums has been overlooked following last summer’s tour where Ward was also not involved.
Bill Ward has been replaced by Brad Wilk who has previously hit drums for Rage Against The Machine. So sad to think that they could do this to Bill after all these years. We also noticed that their new website has chopped Bill’s image from every photo.
The Death Skateboards team have been on the road taking ‘Ordinary Madness‘ to the masses across the UK. Timmy Garbett made a video blog fueled by Cardiacs classic fairground carnage soundtrack featuring the team as they roll out the fun. Watch it here.