November 18, 2008
Black Gold
Text and photo by Jennifer Lynn Veal
Black Gold played the final show of their US tour with Polysics and Jaguar Love at the Glass House in Pomona, CA last Friday night. The room held a mix of costume-clad Polysics super fans and locals, out for a night of good music, who danced along with the Brooklyn , NY band from start to finish. The set list included “Plans and Reveries”, “Idols” and “ Detroit ” from their EP, Tragedy and Legacy.
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November 17, 2008
View from The Palms Hotel
By Jake Anderson
Oh, how we love to hate to love you, Vegas!
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November 17, 2008
By Jake Anderson
On Tuesday November 4, as America eagerly awaited the results of its presidential election—as well as the Senate and House races and hundreds of disparate propositions up for vote all across the country—Antics posted up at the Beauty Bar in Las Vegas for our special election night congressional caucus. Plus-sized television screens aired CNN’s holographic glory while party-goers flooded the doors, drooling at the mouth at the prospect of riding history’s coattails into Wednesday morning. Funny Faces Photobooth joined us, bearing a box of political masks—on hand were Hillary Clinton, Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon, Abraham Lincoln, and president-elect Barack Obama. Later, Eagles of Death Metal took the stage for ninety minutes of ruby rock.
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November 15, 2008
By Brian Brannon
The Mission District of San Francisco is known for some excellent skate spots, big ol’ delicious burritos and a whole mundo of Latin culture. The DLX Crew, including Team Real, Anti-Hero, Spitfire, etc. have long standing connections with the area from a true street, curb and gutter level. And now Mission Skateboards in San Francisco is holding an exhibition called Desplazamientos Bajo y Suavecito: A show about Low Riders, a skate park, and the Mission then and now...
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November 14, 2008
By Kyle Lemmon
First thing’s first, San Francisco’s The Dodos have crafted one of great pop albums of 2008. That’s all fine, but their live shows truly try to take Visitor’s brand of shambolic guitar & drum clatter to the people. Last Saturday night at Los Angeles’ Echoplex the plucky Bay Area duo did just that, as they trolled through songs like the toy piano-flecked “Red and Purple” and the anthemia of “Fools.” As expected, it was mostly Visitor faire, but songs from their early career sneaked into the rousing set.
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November 13, 2008
By Brian Brannon
In this age of mondo-corporate-consumer-driven-skateboarding-mega-hype-marketing-media-blitzes, it’s good to know that there are still a few fine photocopied ’zines making the rounds among the hardcore skate types. One such fine publication is Diehard, put together by Texas pool ruler Ronny Ripper. Like most good ’zines, publication is irregular at best. I mean, he started doing it in 1986 and he just came out with the eighth issue. You do the math… But, the good news is it’s worth the wait.
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November 12, 2008
Text and photos by Tal Rosenberg
Whew. It’s really all you can say after a night like this one, which was stuffed to the ears with such an absurd surfeit of entertainment that there’s really nothing you can do but pass out with giddy exhaustion.
The B-52s didn’t play all of their old tunes, but they did turn out “Mesopotamia” and “Private Idaho” and stuff off their new album and of course “Love Shack” to the sound of hundreds of shrieking, dancing fans. With few breaks in their set, the quirkily retro Georgians proved that they’ve lost little of the energy that characterized their early shows.
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November 11, 2008
By Johnny Wombus
The 2nd annual Stoked Awards, presented by Toyota Matrix is set to go down at the Red Bull Space in New York City on November 12. The event’s founder, Stoked Mentoring, is an action sports non-profit organization behind the event, recognizes individuals for “developing successful teens through opportunity, knowledge, experience and determination.” If you’re in the Big Apple tomorrow night, and are into big-hitters in the action sports world who are doing big things for today’s youth, be sure to check it out. Who knows? A certain Hawk might even end up flying through.
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November 11, 2008
By Brian Brannon
Forget New Jersey being called the Garden State, with a brand spankin’ new park on tap, it is now properly known as the Garden Skate. Hesh or fresh, skateboarders in New Jersey are set for the winter with a huge 1,200 square foot indoor park called GardenSk8 that just opened this weekend.
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November 10, 2008
By Jake Anderson
I’ve been anticipating the release of Rock Band 2 for over a month now and when Max held it up to me at the Antics office on Thursday afternoon I squealed like a piglet. I’d grown so sick of the inaugural Rock Band that the last half dozen Antics events had found me belting out Robert Goulet tunes to drown out the nauseating choruses of “Say It Ain’t So”. The only song I could still tolerate was Rush’s “Tom Sawyer”, simply because the drumming is near impossible. Neil Peart is a vicious beast!
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