Your weekend on the couch The music documentaries you need to detox your way into 2017
It’s Friday. And if you’re still detoxing (like I am) and looking for an excuse to sit on your couch...
Listen to Stef Chura Poppy, grungy, and angsty in all the right ways
Stef Chura may not sound familiar to you, but her experience floating through the depths of the Detroit DIY underground...
Twin Fin Delight Watch Jason Salisbury ignite your future twin fin obsession
Full disclosure: I’ve never owned a twin fin…until a few months ago. Since then I’ve been delighted by a whole...
Watch RVCAloha: “Alex And Ellis” Alex Knost and Ellis Ericson and some jazz poetry at V Land
Regardless of where you sit on spectrum of surfing hipsterism and nostalgia, you’d be hard pressed to not be at...
Listen to Rebel Kind And read our conversation with the band below
It’s 2017. A brand new year. And although recovering from 2016 might take us a while, we’re ready for it....
The 2016 What Youth Memoirs Video When you look at it like this, we had a fucking great year
No more griping about it being the worst year ever. Beneath the loss, 2016 was fucking sick. Just watch this....
The What Youth 2016 Video Slideshow The Velvet Underground take us on the photographic rollercoaster that was 2016
Everyone is talking about how 2016 was a son of a bitch. And yeah, it kinda was. We lost a...
10 Best WY Vids of the Year And the winner is…
2. Fairly Normal: Remy Taveira Remy Taveira lives in the suburbs on the east side of Paris, and he has...
Watch Hayden Shapes Best of 2016 Starring Craig Anderson, Creed McTaggart, Nate Tyler, Dylan Graves, Marti Paradisis and Cole Houshmand
Pretty damn good team, eh? A fond farewell from the Hayden fam.
10 Best WY Vids of the year Number 3 and 4 on our countdown
4. 4 Cities Ozzie Wright Where’s the place you spend the majority of your life? Does it make you you? Or...
10 Best WY Vids of the Year Number 5 and 6 on our countdown
6. Artist Series: Brad Elterman His voice, his look, his energy and enthusiasm are infectious. God, just love this dude. Brad Elterman...
10 Best WY Vids of the year Number 7 and 8 on our countdown
8. “Panama is Certain” starring Taj Burrow and Dion Agius: 7. Afternoon Interview: Craig Anderson
10 Best WY Vids of the Year While we make plans for 2017, let’s see what we did in 2016
We’re all scattered across the globe playing with all our toys and making plans for another big year, and while...
The 5 Best Music Videos of the Year Our picks for the most creative, entertaining and bizarre music vids of the year
My favorite videos from this year all had similar themes. Whether they were animated, involved puppets, or took place in...
The 5 Best Songs of the Year Maya’s musical highlights for 2016
In a year filled with such detrimental loss from the music world (Bowie, Prince, Leonard, to name a few), shout...
Watch Kai Hing in Splashing All black and white and tearing to Low Life
Kai Hing just saved 2016 with this hammer of a part featuring a nice mix of Indo and OZ beachbreaks. Remember...
New Beanies, Hats and Pins Available now in the What Youth Shop
Couple new products landed in the What Youth Shop today. Good timing for shitty weather. Decorate your head. Buy the...
Mason Ho is the best surfer in the world This 2016 highlight reel proves it
There are a lot of competitions, polls and chatter about who the world’s greatest surfer is, and generally you can...
Craig Anderson on the Black Noiz Soft core surfboard riding
Watching Craig Anderson’s board slice through the water is a borderline pornographic experience. That rounded pin…that style. This may not...
John John’s Alley Oop on Saturday A few dozen on the head and then this…
I’ve long been kind of critical of how clips like this get published in a manner that is underwhelming. We’ve...
Meatbodies Announce New Album And share killer track, “Creature Feature”
Meatbodies, the self-proclaimed weirdo band of Chad Ubovich, Patrick Nolan, and Kevin Boog, are finally releasing the follow-up to their...
WY Premiere: Death Valley Girls Watch their new video for “Pink Radiation”
We’re obsessed with Death Valley Girls. These LA rock queens (and Larry) slay in the best way, and released their...
Watch The Nude Party’s New Video For their new single “Water on Mars”
Southern hospitality pranksters The Nude Party have a new video out for the single “Water on Mars”, off their forthcoming...
Yago Dora and Pedro Barros in “Brutal” A surf and skate collab of the very best kind
Well, this says a lot about the technicality off Yago’s surfing. One of his best friends growing up absolutely shreds....
Seen/Unseen footage of Dylan Rieder A beautiful compilation by Martin Riegel
A beautiful compilation of seen/unseen footage of Dylan Rieder shot and edited by Dylan’s friend Martin Reigel.
“The Smiling Bag” Extended Trailer The new film you can only get by emailing Dion Agius himself has a new teaser.
Dion Agius made a film for his friends. He called it The Smiling Bag and he released it by doing...
Watch Tim Presley’s Video for “Clue” Off his debut solo record The WiNK
Tim Presley, master indie innovator behind the influential band White Fence, unleashed his first ever solo effort back in September...
What Youth Gift Guide If you’re going to buy stuff this holiday season, it should be this stuff
There is no shortage of stuff in this world. The problem with that? There’s a lot of shit that gets...
Jesus and Mary Chain release new song The first in 18 years, and it’s really good
Christmas came early this year and Santa left a beautiful brand new Jesus and Mary Chain song. It’s called “Amputation” and...
Listen to Marching Church A big, brass, moody band from Copenhagen
Marching Church, the new project of Iceage’s Elias Bender Rønnenfelt, is the kind of bona fide big, brass band we all...
Watch “Voodoo Child” Starring Mason Ho, so you know this is worth your time
I don’t think you can watch Mason Ho surf without wondering just what it might feel like to ride what...
Lee Wilson in “Sosa Badman” Lee stays home and we all score
Two years ago Lee Wilson was washing dishes in New Zealand. He’d hung up the boards with stickers and simplified....
