Landmark Skate Tunes #7: Band of Horses – ‘The Funeral’
The premise behind each Landmark Skate Tunes feature has been to try and focus on the music rather than the skating. Of course this presents problems, and especially so in this case. The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to hear again. The ones you can enter anywhere and inhabit comfortably...
Landmark Skate Tunes #5: Modest Mouse – ‘Shit Luck’ (Submission by Ciaran McClure)
‘Misled Youth’ – a first full length feature for many and most likely watched on a copy of (of a copy) on VHS, a video that would eventually be rinsed time and time again. Toy Machine, under the Tom Yeto umbrella at the time had an ad feature in Zero’s classic. The Modest Mouse track,...
Landmark Skate Tunes #3: Interpol – ‘Obstacle 1′
We’re getting closer to #PrettySweet, if we get a video part from Brian Anderson that’s as great as what we got from ‘Yeah Right!’ we’ll be very surprised. Of course the skating is top notch and Corey Duffel says of Anderson when introducing this part for Thrasher’s ‘Classics': “BA is beast, he’s the sickest skateboarder...
Landmark Skate Tunes #2: Mogwai – ‘Tracy (Kid Loco’s Playing With The Young Team Remix)’
The credits of a skateboarding film are after all, watched. Often glimpses dedication, trivia and lifestyle are found here. Mogwai’s track closes Emerica’s video perfectly as we watch Suski’s smoothly filmed line, Joey Poirez’s mini section, travel and let’s not forget as the song slowly fades we see what skateboarding can be – paying a...
Landmark Skate Tunes #1: Donovan – ‘Get Thy Bearings’
We don’t remember the first time we watched Reynold’s part in ‘Baker 2g’. But we know after ‘Crimson and Clover’ by Tommy James & the Shondells faded, leading to Reynolds standing, checking his board (sunglasses on), whilst this song began followed by probably the nicest fakie tre and most casual switch crook ever, that this...
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Great interview! Let's all take off our hazmat gloves and usher in a new era of skateboard activism, you damn...
TheDeafWord: Danny Garcia Interview
One of the best to ever do it. Everything about the guy is rad.
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He is an artist. He paints, draws etc. Basically, he makes art. Idiot.
TheDeafWord: Brian Lotti Interview
"(I hate) that every skater thinks hes an artist, fuck your photos, fuck your art and fuck your music". ...