skateboarding
skateboarders rallying to save Tompkins Square Park from astroturf conversion
A petition to ”Save Tompkins Square Asphalt,” created earlier this summer, has collected over 30,000 signatures.
breakdancing (and skateboarding) provisionally approved for 2024 Olympics
Skateboarding and surfing are already set to debut at the 2020 Tokyo Games, and they could join breakdancing at the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics as well…
Cat Power contributes new song to skateboarding doc that also features music by Slint's David Pajo (watch)
photo: Cat Power @ Modern Sky Festival 2014 (more by Amanda Hatfield)
Pearl Jam doing something in NYC... playing Central Park? ++++ Jeff Ament helped open a skatepark in Montana
Those sneaky boys in Pearl Jam tweeted the above picture and wrote “Stay tuned.” We have no idea what this means, but a little detective work shows that the picture has a striking similarity to NYC subway entrances…
Baby's $1 taco guy skates into car, survives (watch)
Baby’s All Right offers $1 tacos during Happy Hour. What better to promote it than to put a guy in a taco with a big sign and put him on a skateboard down the pedestrian ramp of the Williamsburg Bridge…
Fun Fun Fun Fest 2012 pics & video (part 1): Tomahawk, X, Converge, Napalm Death, Against Me!, Run-DMC & more
The seventh edition of Fun Fun Fun Fest kicked off on Friday (11/2) at Auditorium Shores in Austin, featuring a headlining set from the hip hop legends Run DMC, X (playing all of their landmark Los Angeles), Santigold, Against Me…
Orion Music Fest day 1 pics & review (Metallica does 'Ride the Lightning' + Fucked Up, Lucero, Hot Snakes, Arctic Monkeys & much more)
Metallica‘s Orion Music & More festival went down in Atlantic CIty’s Bader Field this weekend, featuring the band performing Ride the Lightning in full on Saturday (6/23) and The Black Album on Sunday (6/24), in addition to many other bands across four stages. Ba…
BrooklynVegan, Southern Lord & Power of The Riff present a back-to-back day show/official SXSW showcase at Scoot Inn
High on Fire at Fun Fun Fun Fest (more by BBG)
March 16th, March 16th, March 16th! If you’re going to be in Austin, save the date on your calendar folks…
Quiksilver hosting free shows in Long Island (Girl Talk, Flaming Lips, Interpol, Q-Tip, Neon Indian, Wavves, more)
Watch out House of Vans, it looks like yeat another corporate-sponsored show-series is vying for contender of “best free shows” in NY this year…
Skating icon, Thrasher mag co-founder Eric Swensen kills self
The man who ended his life in front of the Mission Police Station on Monday was a skateboarding icon and co-founder of San Francisco-based Thrasher magazine…