The pied piper of all things skateboarding Ben Jobe was interviewed at the Undercroft this weekend as the annual Reunion passed through the infamous banks.
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Grass Macheras in SPOONFUL
Sometimes a good battle can leave you transfixed. Grass Macheras‘ intro to his part in the SPOONFUL video is dying for a make. There’s only one winner here fueled by Greek ambition.
Pick up the full S.O.S Skateboards DVD here and if you want more, check out the part from Manos Kiriakousis.
Despite the thrash titans headline slot at the heavy metal festival, Kerry King is holding back no punches when it comes to ‘critiquing’ the event.
King blames the “shitty bill” and not enough thought having gone into reinventing the festival for Mayhem’s falling ticket sales and loss of two stages. He states “whoever booked this made a gigantic error”.
Whereas King blames the events organisers, they have responded to the backlash by turning the blame around onto the bands themselves – “The bands at the top all demand a certain level of fee to be on tour. Unlike punk rock, metal never knows how to take a step back to move the whole scene forward. That’s how punk rock was. That’s how we nurtured punk rock. Bad Religion would take a little less than they could on their own to bring the whole scene forward, so we could make sure we had a good (touring) package around them. Metal doesn’t seem to have that concern, never has since I was working in the clubs in the 80s. It’s always about a me, me, me thing”.
Mourn the apparent last of the French Fred tapes with none other than the British wizard of all things skateboarding, Tom Penny. I don’t know whether to first discuss the sadness that Fred Mortagne’s incredible archive of tapes from such an important period of skateboarding has come to an end, or the fact that unseen Penny footage is beyond gold.
The only way of leading out of this is to doff your hat to French Fred as his dedication to filming and photographing skateboarding his entire life is commendable. Thanks for everything.
Find more of Fred’s incredible work explained in our feature with him.
Most of us took our first ride on a little plastic rig but not all of us return to slay it in a way most would not think was possible. Spanish tech head Manolo Robles shows you what’s possible if you put your mind to it. Call the coastguard.
Watch FA’s Kevin Terpening cruise streets to the Minutemen for his new HUF Classics part as they fit a glove.
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Sweat Lodge
Sweat Lodge
‘Bed Of Ashes’
Ripple Music
This Texan four-piece come armed with riffs heavier than railway sleepers, pummelling your ears with the kind of searing-hot sonics that summon images of the blistering heat-haze of the American South and the blast furnace’s of Birmingham in equal measure.
Flowing in a familiar toxic vein to that of the heavy metal giants that came before them, ‘Bed of Ashes’ see’s Sweat Lodge living up to their name with some sincerely psychedeli-sized metal doom. Austin Texas is approximately 4816 miles from Birmingham, West Midlands, but the moment you hit play on Sweat Lodge’s filthy, riff infested garage-dirge below you’ll be wrapped up in a delcious geographical nightmare that just keeps on giving.
Sweat Lodge’s debut album Talismana will be released August 7th via Ripple Music.
Swans frontman Michael Gira has revealed via Facebook that September 1st will see the final album, and subsequent tour, from this particular incarnation of the band. The album is set to be preceded by a live LP release, titled The Gate, to fund the production of the impending September release which Gira describes as what’s bound to be an “insatiable beast”.
Read the full statement on Swans’ Facebook Page and keep your eyes peeled for further announcements.
This coming Friday July 31st the Teenage Time Killers super-group, led by Corrosion Of Conformity drummer Reed Mullin, will release their debut album through Reprise Records.
Greatest Hits Vol.1 is set to feature appearances from QOTSA’s Nick Oliveri, Foo Fighters’ Pat Smear and Dave Grohl, Dead Kennedys’ Jello Biafra, Prong’s Tommy Victor and countless other rock veterans. Featuring 20 tracks, a handful of which are covers, including the Rudimentary Peni song that gives the outfit its name, the majority of the LP was tracked at Grohl’s own 606 Studios in Northridge, California.
Check out the full track list below and stream this monster in it’s entirety over on the NY Times website.
Greatest Hits Vol.1 Track-list:
1. Exploder
Vocals: Reed Mullin
Featuring Pat Hoed (Bass), London May (Drums)
2. Crowned by the Light of the Sun
Vocals: Neil Fallon
Featuring Jim Rota (Guitar), Dave Grohl (Bass)
3. Hung Out to Dry
Vocals: Randy Blythe
Featuring Mike Schaefer (Guitar), Dave Grohl (Bass)
4. Power Outage
Vocals: Clifford Dinsmore
Featuring Dave Grohl (Bass)
5. Ode to Hannity
Vocals: Jello Biafra
Featuring Mike Dean (Bass)
6. Barrio
Vocals: Matt Skiba
Featuring Brian Baker (Guitar)
7. The Dead Hand
Vocals: Reed Mullin
Featuring Woody Weatherman (Guitar), Dave Grohl (Bass)
8. Egobomb
Vocals: Corey Taylor
Featuring Dave Grohl (Bass)
9. Plank Walk
Vocals: Pete Stahl
Featuring Greg Anderson (Guitar), Dave Grohl (Bass)
10. Time to Die
Vocals: Mike IX Williams
Featuring Greg Anderson (Guitar)
11. Days of Degradation
Vocals: Tommy Victor
Featuring Dave Grohl (Bass)
12. Clawhoof
Vocals: Tairrie B. Murphy
Featuring Dave Grohl (Bass)
13. Big Money
Vocals: Lee Ving
Featuring Pat Smear (Guitar & Bass), London May (Drums)
14. Devil in this House
Vocals: Karl Agell
Featuring Dave Grohl (Bass)
15. Say Goodnight to the Acolyte
Vocals: Phil Rind
Featuring Jason Browning (Guitar), Dave Grohl (Bass)
16. Ignorant People
Vocals: Tony Foresta
Featuring Greg Anderson (Guitar), Nick Oliveri (Bass)
17. Son of an Immigrant
Vocals: Johnny Weber
Featuring Brian Baker (Guitar)
18. Your Empty Soul
Vocals: Aaron Beam
19. Bleeding to Death
Vocals: Vic Bondi
Featuring Dave Grohl (Bass)
20. Teenage Time Killer
Vocals: Trenton Rogers
Featuring Greg Anderson (Guitar), Pat Hoed (Bass)
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Billy Corgan ripped by the US Press
Can a 90s alt-rock icon not enjoy a day out at Disneyland in peace these days? No! As last week, poor old Billy Corgan was snapped by paparazzi riding a roller-coaster and the internet has gone bananas about it. Shameless celebrity snapping aside, the US Weekly came up with the best (worst?) tagline you could ever imagine.
“From a rat in a cage to the House of Mouse! Smashing Pumpkins rocker Billy Corgan took his Mellon Collie self to the Happiest Place on Earth, aka Disneyland, where he traveled back in time to the Wild, Wild West of the 19th century.”