Danny Brady kicks off the week with a new section for Lakai to celebrate his Belmont XLK signature shoe that just hit your local skate shop. Enjoy this goodness from Blackpool’s finest.
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Author: Zac
Here’s a bit of fresh news to end the week on. Sheffield’s Shaun Currie has joined Death Urethane today.
If you missed this Working Class Hero clip that went out over the xmas period, then enjoy some footage of him smoking The House skatepark.
More amazing footage of Ben Raybourn arrived overnight from Independent Trucks ripping this backyard pool to shreds. Sick little edit here.
You may remember the wonderful work of Haroshi that we posted back in 2010 but if not then get ready to be introduced to some magic.
Haroshi hooked up with Huf and DLXSF for more skateboard art goodness this month in the US. Enjoy his recent creations that are once again, out of this world.
The newly build skatepark in Clapham Common, built by Freestyle Skateparks is open officially this Saturday in South London. The 500m2 float finish concrete has been built with resurfaced skateable grade tarmacadam extending the park to approx’ 1500m2. The park that had London Borough of Lambeth behind it looks fun and can be found on the junction of Rookery Road. Here’s some recent pics.
Enter Shikari’s Rou Reynolds who played the Crossfire Halloween Massacre back in November has made a statement on the band’s website explaining feelings behind the current midweek chart position on new album A Flash Flood Of Colour:
“Two days ago things began as normal.
I pressed snooze a few times, finally woke up, rubbed my eyes, stretched my arms… and checked Facebook/Twitter.
But from then on it got weird. Really weird.
Our bands album ‘A Flash Flood Of Colour’ was at number 1 in the official UK charts.
I waddled confused and still half asleep down the stairs and had a crumpet to ‘celebrate’.
I lie, i ended up having 3.
I’m writing this two days after that rivetingly descriptive morning escapade, on Wednesday 18th, and we’re still topping the charts by a few thousand copies. Madness.
Now i’m not gonna sit here and bark on about how this is…
a) a victory for independent music
b) a victory for meaningful and societally conscious music
c) a victory for guitar/alternative music
…of which it is undeniably all three, but it has to be at least mentioned.
It goes without saying, you certainly wouldn’t label the majority of artists normally in the charts any of those descriptions, let alone those that reach number one.
The fact that so many people have bought this record and supported the values behind it is incredible. And we would like to thank every single person that has, from the bottom of our hearts.
I don’t know whether we’ll be holding strong by Sunday when the end of week chart run down happens.
In fact i’m sure Adele or Bruno Mars will have crept back up on us by then and achieve their 50th week at number one or whatever they’re on.
But we’ll have had our nice brisk trot in the limelight, and big up all those that contributed to it.”
Rou.
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Diamond Rugs
Gimme A Beer
www.partisanrecords.com
2012 is shaping up to be a pretty vintage year for decent albums so let us introduce you to yet another contender that should stoke you out if you like your garage rock and country.
Firstly, it’s best to mention that Diamond Rugs is a project that was conceived back in August last year. John McCauly and Robbie Crowell from Deer Tick, Ian St Pe from Black Lips, Bryan Dufresne of Six Finger Satellite, Steve Berlin from Los Lobos and Hardy Morris from Dead Confederate went down to Nashville, Tennessee together to lay down some tracks and miracles happened. Speaking to Morris back then, he mentioned to us on a telegram that: “We were planning on recording 5 songs, and we did 14, so I guess you could say we had fun! It’s got a couple of Ian’s songs, 4 of mine, and the rest are John’s and other folks. Should come out early next year, I’ll keep you in the loop.”
Fast forward to January 18th and Diamond Rugs has surfaced online with a taster of what’s to come in a tune called ‘Gimme a Beer‘. The result, a mighty fine slab of catchy, slide guitar and horn assisted, country-rock’n’roll with a dirty Southern edge that makes you want to shake your shit over and over. I quote the words, “Damn it feels good to be a gangster!”
Check it out for yourself, download this tune for free and look out for an album announcement for the UK pretty soon.
WIN £200 IN OUR WINTER SKATE VIDEO EDIT COMP!
We all know that sessions are going to become increasingly more difficult due to the weather this winter, but as usual, the hardcore will be out there filming no matter how cold it is, indoors or out – so this comp is for you.
WHAT ARE THE RULES?
There are no rules. It’s a straight forward skate video comp. Your edit can be as short or as long as you like. You can film your video anywhere you like. In a skate park, on the streets, bowl, vert, pool, anywhere – just read this, get inspired, phone, email and get your friends together and start filming. If you already have fresh footage sitting right there from the last month or so doing nothing. Use it. The winner will take home £200 once we all decide who should win it and run online with others that impress.
HOW YOU SUBMIT YOUR EDIT:
Edit your video, upload it to youtube, vimeo or mpora and submit a private link to us via our contact page so we can watch it.
WHEN IS THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS?
The deadline is February 29th so you have about 6 weeks to get this together.
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Pond
‘Fantastic Explosion Of Time’
www.modularpeople.com
Pond on Facebook
For those of you record nerds that looked at this and thought that Sub Pop’s Pond from the early 90’s had reformed and releasing new material let’s make this clear that this Pond is full of new life, is not a grunge band and lives down in Australia.
Made up of 2 of Tame Impala’s touring members, Pond have unleashed one of the coolest psych records of 2012 so far with brand new track ‘Fantastic Explosion Of Time‘. Made up of of a mix of late 70’s pop punk rhythms and a large dose of 60’s psych, the rollercoaster trip this track omits is a ride that everyone should be on by the time the full length record is released this March 5th in the UK.
Previous releases have seen the band delve into Bowie/MGMT 70’s rock vibes so the forthcoming album Beard Wives Denim that will be released on Modular Recordings should be quite a melee of goodness to look forward to.
For now, feast on this single that is up for free download from the soundcloud link below and try not to play it again and again. Magical stuff.
Kyron Davis joined the Quiksilver UK team last week, watch his introduction edit to the team that was sent over this morning here.