Even if the Swiss have just voted in a Right-Wing Government that is seriously tightening things up for immigrants , they still have loads of cash to build sick skateparks like the new one in Lausanne – Vidy to be exact.
The park officially opens on October 7th where the architect who designed the beauty, Mr. Humberto Perez of the Miro Bizzozero architectural practice in Lugano, will be in attendance as well as the local politicos and co.
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Most unsurprising news of the year – Jay Z has come out of retirement. After releasing The Black Album, Jay had intended to stop recording studio albums and since then he’d become President and CEO of Def Jam, bought a slice in a basketball team, appeared on numerous artists’ albums and gone on a massive tour of the globe.
A tribute album to Nirvana is going to be released, but not just any tribute album, this will feature lullaby versions of the band’s tracks. The album will be put out by Babyrock Records and they have described it like this:
The band with one of the longest names ever, And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead, have announced details of their forthcoming album. The record will be titled So Divided and will be released on November 13th and will include a guest spot for Dresden Dolls’ Amanda Palmer. The tracklisting is:
Ludicra have come out of the studio with their new full length, Fex Urbis Lex Orbis, in hand. The group are ready to unleash it onto the unsuspecting world with their own brand of screamy sludge metal and with a release date of October 31st, you know they won’t be messing around.
A new punk exhibition is being planned to celebrate next year’s 30th anniversary of the explosion of the music. The event will be called Panic Attack and will be held at the Barbican Centre in London from June 7th to September 9th next year.
Goodie Mob’s Cee-Lo Green, who has recently shot to mainstream fame with Gnarls Barkley, is going to be releasing a best of compilation at the end of October. The album is going to be called Closet Freak: The Best Of Cee-Lo Green The Soul Machine and will feature artists and producers such as Ludacris, Timbaland, Pharrell and Outkast. The track list is:
Los Angeles’ The Blood Arm have just released their new single, Suspicious Character, which is going to be followed by their debut album Lie, Lover, Lie which is due in early October. The single is out on CD and 2 varieties of 7″ –
I just split my Indy baseplate.
Honestly, skate material cannot be indestructible (no matter how much companies would like you to think otherwise!), otherwise where would they make their money and innovate into new areas? But Independent Trucks have stood the test of time over and over again when it comes to stability and no nonsense quality.
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