Ben Gore is the latest recruit to join the ever growing Magenta Skateboards team. The Floridian who has left Stereo Skateboards rocks SF hills in this brand new welcome video today.
If you want more there’s a new interview up over at LiveSkateMedia.
Steve Albini has been interviewed about recording Nirvana’s ‘In Utero’ album this week and opens up on the making of it across the board. From the recording sessions, pop mixes, record company wars, and much more are discussed with Vish Khanna from Kreative Kontrol.
He calls the critics from this record ‘Parasites‘ and also refuses to discuss anything in relation to Courtney Love amongst much more. It’s a fantastic insight into what went on 20 years back plus he discusses his appreciation of Fugazi and new Shellac record in the works.
Listen to it on iTunes here.
Get the teas on as this is like watching paint dry, but Jim Bates here thought it was worth the effort. Claps.
It’s clips like this that make you feel lucky to be a skateboarder. No giving up, must have the trick whatever the risk. Josh ‘Skreech’ Sandoval has a battle with this drainage ditch in Irvine, California.
Jackson Casey has uploaded Robbie Brockel‘s part from the Worship Friendship video that dropped last year on DVD with a banging tune from Scarface. Pick up the full DVD from here.
Piss drunker Dustin Dollin has made his own phone cam series for Volcom’s web channel called “Gettin’ Dusted” which kicks off with a Grant Taylor getting amongst the storm with some beers, guitars and bro’s.
The ‘Stee’ video featuring both the Sweet Skateboards and SK8Mafia team left a large dent in the skate scene this summer. Check out the raw footage of Jimmy Cao filming his section that was released overnight. You pay to play.
The HUF team visited Manchester’s Note skate shop on Sunday. Jim Craven just dropped some footage of Tom Day, Dan Plunkett and co skating in town.
More will come in the Thrasher edit once they get back home but look out for the full team at Southbank tomorrow at 6pm following a signing at Slam city Skates at 3pm.
A new book featuring the history of Dinosaur Jr is apparently due for release this year. The glossy photo book is said to feature a plethora of old flyers, dairy pages from roadie Jon Fetler, rare unseen photography and exclusive interviews from the band and friends under the title ‘Dinosaur Jr by Dinosaur Jr’.
Look out for it this November via Rocket 88 Books and click here for the full monty.
Predatory Birds Joe Pease and John Rattray have worked together on a new animation video titled ‘Paper Trail‘ for your perusal. Over 800 drawings were used in this shot by Pease – press play for the results.
Paper Trail from joe pease on Vimeo.