Slam City Skates have unlocked Darius Trabalza‘s footage from the City of Rats DVD for the DC Flow to Pro edit comp overnight. Get some here.
DC Flow to Pro – Darius Trabalza – City of Rats from Slam City Skates on Vimeo.
Author: Zac
John Peel would have been 73 years old today. I’m not sure if some of our younger visitors would remember this legendary UK DJ but he introduced so many amazing bands into the ears of many for decades and we miss him loads.
His voice was so endearing that I found myself encapsulated, listening in to what he had to say. The bands he picked for his Radio 1 Show were so sporadic that I would sit with my tape recorder waiting for anything that sounded vaguely punk or indie and capture it for use on the way to school. He had a tendency to throw in all sorts of random music in the mix such as Reggae, African and even Hawaiian music, so I had many taped compilations of tracks that have the first bar cut off the front end! Bands such as The Smiths, Electro Hippies, Dinosaur Jr, Intense Degree, Napalm Death…the list runs as long as your arm. It was a lottery, but such a great one that no other DJ has come close to over the years.
I met him once in a tent at Glastonbury. We both stood there whilst the rain bucketed down chatting away about hardcore punk, D.O.S.E, Mark.E.Smith and much more whilst Euro 96 football played on a screen in the tent. He was a gent and had plenty of time to chat about music to anyone. Something I will never forget. Please raise your glass tonight to this man as he graced so many people like myself with quality music knowledge that no fanzine back then could deliver regularly.
John Peel RIP. You can find his archived radio shows here. Have a look and download some brilliant sessions and shows of the past as there’s some amazing stuff in here.
Hardcore legends Converge are back with a new album on epitaph records this October 12th titled ‘All We Love We Leave Behind‘ and have rolled out cover versions of classic predecessors Black Flag, Negative Approach and The Cure.
The new album landed at crossfire HQ last week and we can tell you that even though it’s their 8th album, it will annihilate your ears.
Vocalist Jacob Bannon added, “I think we really stepped up our game on this record. The most important thing to this band is that with every album we want to create something that excites us and moves us in some way. There are a lot of subtle nuances on this record are really special to us and we definitely hit those individually on this record.”
Watch the video for first track Aimless Arrow here and stream these covers. You will be surprised by The Cure!
Last weekend’s Ultrabowl comp in Malmo was a blast. Watch all the footage from the full weekend of action here.
Ultrabowl 4: Malmö, Sweden from Confusion Magazine on Vimeo.
This is from a reliable source as Danny Wainwright posted on his personal social network last night that “Clan Skateboards pulled the plug on the brand!” What skateboard company should snap up his services? Discuss.
It’s Ernie Torres‘ turn to Push through his hometown. Enjoy this new edit from the guys at Real with Torres rolling through Colorado.
Ernie Torres Pushing Colorado from dlxsf on Vimeo.
Girl and Chocolate are starting their media assault as the clock ticks ahead of the Pretty Sweet explosion that is about to drop on November 16th. Watch this new trailer for more of what’s coming past and present.
Some tricks are hard enough without having a magazine to read at the same time. Ben Raemers like to catch up on what’s going on out there mid session…
Phil Harvey, his new camera and a crew of close mates hit up Barcelona as part of the DC/Slam City skates edit comp he won and came back with, you guessed it, another edit. John Bell, Ben Rowles, Dave Wallace, Liam Sproat and Anton Kastritskiy get amongst it for 5 days on the Catalan coast.
Ultrabowl 4: Malmö, Sweden from Confusion Magazine on Vimeo.
Put the kettle on for this one and then take some of the heat from this new Flip Skateboards tour video that just hit the web featuring Ben Nordberg, Geoff Rowley, Curren Caples, Greyson Fletcher, Matt Berger, Alec Majerus, Louie Lopez and David Gonzalez.