It’s been a while since we have featured Dutch Skateboard crew The 5th District on here but they are back with a sunshine stuffed edit filmed on a tour of Croatia today.
Check out what the country has to offer and enjoy the skating from Alban Schelbert, Jan Hofer, Ricco Pachera, Patrick Hefti and Simon Stricker.
Remember the Flip tour that came by Bay 66 in 2008? If so, then you will probably remember this little ripper Axel Cruysberghs as his skills stood out on the day alongside Flip’s other mini rippers. Unsure if Axel is still on Flip these days but he’s still ripping so says this new edit that was posted online overnight from Belgium, watch it here.
New footage of Marcus Adams from the Kingston Lurkers scene video has been released this month.
Enjoy his section filmed by James Smith, Jack Maddison and Paul Labadie and if you want more then go back here to watch the trailer for Blueslims.
Fake History
Epitaph Records
On first hearing ‘Le Prologue’, the opening track to ‘Fake History’, it’s easy to assume that you’re about to hear a drawn out, suspense building intro track that you would’ve lost interest in before reaching any kind of semblance to a song… but no, letlive. write off the suspense and unleash an outrageous and calculated assault, aimed straight at your unsuspecting nervous system feet first with big fucking boots on. Before you know it, track two, ‘The Sick, Sick 6.8 billion’, has happened and it’s happened hard, and you don’t get a chance to breath until it’s over.
If you miss the time when Anthony Green was still in Saosin, and Glassjaw had just released Worship and Tribute, ‘Fake History’ is probably going to blow your mind. In terms of a post-hardcore record, it’s near perfect, and considering the fact that it’s basically an hour long, keeping the listener interested is a victory in itself. ‘Fake History’ achieves this with variety. Each track is a journey, both vocally and musically, and this allows the whole record to ebb and flow as a whole. Vocalist Jason Aalon Butler can belt out an ear-splitting scream, switch effortlessly to a whisper, and tops it off by holding those big notes in a way that Andrea Bocelli would most likely have busted a blood vessel or two. The drums on ‘Casino Columbus’ sound like thick, heavy artillery whereas tracks like ‘Lemon Party’ provide rhythms that’ll have your dancing shoes on in seconds. Sure, loads of bands can mix it up in an album, but what sets this apart is that it’s all presented so damn stylishly. All the musicians are solid and it’s undeniable that Butler’s vocal skills are slick as hell and more than accomplished.
If you were fortunate enough to see them at the Old Blue Last for their first UK headline show, then you won’t need convincing. If you missed it, fear not, for it seems clear that letlive. are a bomb that will be exploding into your lives, turning and rolling heads simultaneously, and ‘Fake History’ is lighting the fuse. This album is what you love about post-hardcore. It highlights everything that was good and exciting about the genre: unforgiving and impassioned vocal hooks, a rhythm section that is both restrained and relentless, all of which will get you singing, dancing and generally losing your shit.
Oli Knowles
Enjoy some fresh footage of Dennis Busenitz, Frank Gerwer and Peter Ramondetta as they demolish a gathering inside the museum of science, art and human perception in San Francisco. As usual, Dennis Booze’n’tits defies all laws of gravity..
Texas stonegazers True Widow are back with a brand new video titled ‘Skull Eyes’ this week, a single lifted from their new album that will be released on Kemado Records this month.
The 3 piece band who tour constantly in the US have a new record that combines shoegaze indie and stoner rock that sits somewhere between what Dead Meadow, Codeine and Earth manage to bring together combining mesmerising riffs and luscious vocals that border on stoner but sit deep in hypnotic psych.
Look out for the album As High As The Highest Heavens And From The Center To The Circumference Of The Earth, out on May 2nd as it will be one of those come down records you just need to have in your collection.
Wake up to some sick lines from Habitat’s Silas Baxter Neal today who skates his favourite spot in Portland, Oregon. Want more?
The new Real Skateboards DVD has been rolling out worldwide with good feedback so far and arrived in the UK this week.
Have a sneaky peek at a few tricks from this Deluxe trailer that has just been released from the US premiere.
Blueprint Skateboards have a new crew member on board this morning. Some of you who lurk the web hard may know of Jon Nguyen already but if not then watch this Tilt Mode Army clip to make friends with Blueprint’s new arrival.
DVS pro Kerry Getz celebrated 10 years of running his skate shop Nocturnal with a skate and water balloon session plus a day skating the mini mega ramp over at Bam Margera’s fun palace. Watch the video of all of it here.