Brixton Broadcast: Murder City Devils Live video and interview from the Troubadour in Hollywood, CA
It was a boozy, sweaty and romantic night of free drinks and wolf-snarling punk rock thanks to Brixton and a live performance by one of our all-time favorite bands: The Murder City Devils. The Seattle band secretly headlined the most recent Brixton Broadcast in Los Angeles and we got the invite to both hammer our…
More of the Same Same Collected Thoughts 130: Year of the fucking drone.
“So here we are. 2017. Year of the fucking drone. We’re pretty far behind schedule, according to Marty McFly. But finally every single person in the world owns a drone. Yay! And now we get to look at even more of the same same. Same beach. Same angle. Different caption. (insert grammatical error here) The…
What’d you do this weekend? We threw ourselves into the pit with The Murder City Devils
“A lot of our songs early on were about romanticizing places we weren’t. Other places, other towns, things we couldn’t get to” said Spencer Moody, lead singer for The Murder City Devils before a secret show they were playing Saturday night. And yes, this was a place you definitely wish you woulda been. And it…
Noa Deane and Cole Sandman Slip ‘n Slide Soft Rev and summer fun with Muffin Man and Noz
It was a hot time with fun waves this weekend. Well, fun waves if you had this approach, like Cole Sandman and Noa Deane in Newport over the weekend. And with a lot of shit that’s going on in the world these days, its easy to forget that sometimes, all we need is a few days doing…
What Youth Eats: On a Trip Bridging the disconnect between great waves and crappy food on surf trips
I haven’t been lucky enough to be on a fancy boat trip with a private chef, but I have been on plenty of surf trips where we’re in the middle of nowhere without so much as a taco stand in sight. So what to eat? Usually it’s an early question on that road between the…
Ty Segall and Assman An interview with Ty Segall and his new comic strip featuring the character of Assman
Ty Segall is 10 minutes late to our interview at Footsies in Highland Park. I’m sipping on a whiskey in the back when he shows up, yellow paint on his hands and arms and maybe his clothes. What’s with the paint? He whips out his phone to show me. “This is a portrait of my…
This is Absurd An old note comes back to haunt and hype us
Editor’s note: This was originally published in What Youth Issue 1 (which is now sold out) as an intro to Kai’s film Dear Suburbia,. It recently struck another modern chord with us as we thought of all the impending doom out there. And this kind of reminded us that’s it still, in the face of insanity,…
How we met Yago Dora Yago’s success at the Rio Pro is validating something we’ve known for a long time. Let’s recall.
Long before the WSL started with the weird warrior techno hype video things, we were watching Yago Dora. His surfing caught our eye, but it was his vibe, his personality, his approach that really stuck with us. In What Youth Issue 13 we recall his ability to jump in our big white van and road trip…