She’s So Rad – Circles

Great video, really. Captures two decades of skating, the innocence of youth, humor. It’s magic, and I’m not (very) drunk. She’s so Rad is the band, In Circles is the song. Bonus: The band’s web site has an unexplained still of J. Mascis doing the double daffy. These guys may or may not be from […]

Radical Dads: Skateboard Bulldog Single

The Radical Dads sing Skateboard Bulldog. If the lead dad had offspring, they would call her “mom.”

A tale of two frontside ollies

Daniel Evans johnny’s trick tip for the frontside ollie has been blowing up hard in the last few days Daniel Evans I couldn’t figure out why Daniel Evans until I found this Daniel Evans <video link> Colin Sharp fontside ollie=en Colin Sharp that’s rad Colin Sharp if you do a search can you find his […]

Ghost of Dee Dee gets rad

There’s more Dee Dee merch now than there ever was when he was alive. I don’t know who benefits from that, but some of it is pretty cool. On the left, Dee Dee as he appeared in Tank Girl: Skidmarks, shown as he might have appeared on a custom Bulldog board. On the right, Dee […]

Kramer Floyd Rose Sustainer Guitar

This is an ad for a Kramer Floyd Rose Sustainer Guitar that ran in a 1989 issue of an unnamed music magazine. I only know this because I have poor impulse control. This guy is at the height of 80’s fashion, ho-ho street plant and neon yellow shirt with the sleeves and sides cut off. […]

Rad Dad

No pads? Rad Dad: Dispatches from the frontiers of fatherhood is a book by Tom Moniz, published by Microcosm Publishing. It’s excerpts of his zine of the same name and another called Daddy Dialectic “two kindred publications that have explored parenting as political territory.” Yowza. Sounds a lot heavier than the other alternadad literature like […]

Nardwuar vs. Roger Allen: The History of Skate Rock Part 2

Nardwuar the Human Serviette, recently posted part 2 of the The History of Skate Rock. I haven’t listened to it yet but the tipster says it’s more on target this time, and does include some talk about eBay action. The show isn’t archived on the offical Nardwuar site, but instead on WFMU.org. – Thanks to […]

Skate Rock benefit in PDX

Benefit for Skaters for Portland Skateparks this Saturday, June 11th a 8pm. Where? Plan B, located at 1305 Southeast 8th Avenue in Portland, Oregon.

Wavves: Post Acid

Wavves are a San Diego that depending on who you read, is either a solo project with hired guns, the new sound, or a bunch of noise. Here’s a good place to start. They released the Post Acid single on Green Label Sound, which is a, uhm.. mp3 record label owned by Pepsi via Mountain […]