Surfing, Skateboarding, Music, Photography, Travel, Culture and general antics of the youth on the run.

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Stay Tuned: Donovon Piscopo Playlist 034: A cool breeze of Roxy Music, Lou Reed and Fleetwood Mac with a few hammers tossed in

We really like how Donovon Piscopo skates. And when that happens we usually like their music taste. This is the case yet again. Donovon is from Covina, CA, rides for Hockey and his parents own The Pawn Shop Skate Shop. But let’s start with the music. A nice mix of Roxy Music, Fleetwood Mac, Johnny Thunders…

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Watch Dillon Perillo’s Day Trip to Baja A few hours away from hostility

When there’s an influx of swell coming, people from Southern California start chomping at the bit and every spot with a name becomes a hostile party. Dillon Perillo had a better idea: Drive way south and find some waves by himself. It worked. It definitely worked.

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Girl We Adore: Zelly Mae Dugan Song Writing and Riding Brontosauruses

What is your full name? Zelly Mae Dugan Do you have any nicknames? Zell Bell, Smelly Zelly, Zelda just to name a few;) Where were you born and where are you currently living? I was born in Ventura and I’m currently going back and forth between there and LA. What’s your dream car? Red 1960s…

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Watch Clay Marzo in Baja California Big offshore tubes in freezing conditions

It’s been a while since we’ve seen Clay surf on this side of the world. The conditions look all too familiar to him. Big, offshore tubes in freezing conditions. An unfamiliar sight seeing him in a wetsuit. But it didn’t seem to last too long.

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Ty Segall Announces New Album And drops debut single, “Orange Color Queen”

That’s right. Ty Segall has a new album dropping January 27th on Drag City Records, and today, he’s sharing the debut single, “Orange Color Queen.” The album, his second self-titled since 2008, will feature former Muggers cohorts Emmett Kelly, Kyle Thomas, Mikal Cronin, Charles Moothart, and Ben Boye.  I had the pleasure of seeing Ty…

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Off Beat: Eric Geiselman Episode 040: Raccoons, wine and we finally reveal who’s better him or his brother I Presented by Richer Poorer

We got stuck on a boat in an Indonesian rain storm recently and spent two whole days sitting in a brown and flooded harbor. This is one of those days. We passed the time by asking stupid questions to awesome people. This day we talked to one of our favorite Floridians Eric Geiselman.

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What Youth Fire Update: We’re good Can’t say the same for some of our neighbors

Early Friday morning we got word that the units behind our building had caught fire. Assuming it was merely a dumpster fire, I thought nothing of it for about 15 minutes. A little research proved otherwise: This was BIG. A real fire. Explosions. It was all over the news. And our building was definitely in…

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Death of a Ladies’ Man A small tribute to Leonard Cohen 

“It’s time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.” The first Leonard Cohen song I ever heard was “So Long, Marianne”, probably sometime in my intensely emotional adolescence, when nothing made sense and the prospect of keeping on was only slightly eased by his soothing voice, which…

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WY Premiere: Listen to Lovely Bad Things And stream their new single “Cartoon Food”

Lovely Bad Things, the La Mirada band of multi-instrumentalist surf punk misfits, have a new song out today, “Cartoon Food”,...
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When Obama got Elected Collected Thoughts 115: Nate Lawrence’s view from abroad

I was in Senegal, West Africa when Obama got inaugurated for the first time. There was a sense of excitement...
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Watch Geoff Rowley’s “Promo” Part MIni Ramp sessions at the Vans’ warehouse

Geoff goes absolutely mad on the Vans’ mini ramp. With some fun guest appearances from the Hager Bros, Ed Templeton,...
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The Shape of Art To Come Let’s make sure we take advantage of this

Yesterday I stood inside a church and looked at a ballot with measures on porn and weed and a presidential battle...
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The Dylan Rieder Issue: On Sale 11-22-2016 We teamed up with Mark Oblow to create our 16th issue and devoted it entirely in loving memory of Dylan Rieder.

This one means a lot. And it’s off to print today. After learning that we lost Dylan to his fight...
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Watch “Says Who” Sean “Sea Mullet” Mawson is a name to get familiar with

Well, look at this. A tube pig with a love for the punt. This is one of the first edits...
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Russell Houghten and Dylan Rieder Back Den 107: Spain for the first Gravis trip

“russell houghten and dylan rieder on the first gravis trip to spain. circa back den….. forever love forever dylan remember...
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Watch “Dorta” Portugal with Ian Crane, Timmy Reyes and Torrey Meister

Portugal is a wave garden. Forget the fact that ever actual wave pool garden thing is closing down, planet earth...

Radical Class: Layover in Paris A guide to 48 hours in an overwhelming city

A lot of times when we travel, we’ll try to tack on a bonus location. A quick layover somewhere just...
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Listen to Cory Hanson The Wand / Muggers member unveils solo debut album

Cory Hanson, lead singer and guitarist of Wand and former member of the Muggers (RIP),  has announced his solo debut...

Listen to Kill a Punk for Rock & Roll New project and song from Josh Landau of The Shrine

Josh Landau of the The Shrine debuted his solo project Kill A Punk For Rock & Roll last night on...
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Watch “Rotten to the Core” Surfing is not a sport and this video is a throwback reminder

This is the type of surf film you find buried in the VHS collection deeper than the others because you kind of...
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How To Drink Mezcal in Mexico City “For every ill, mezcal — and for every good as well.”

When you go to Mexico City, don’t order tequila. Or a margarita for that matter. Order mezcal. It’s the drink...
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Remembering Andy 6 years ago today we lost Andy Irons

There has been no shortage of emotions around lately. 2016 has been a rough one on our heroes. And today is...
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Off Beat: Ian Crane Episode 039: Pogo sticks, ball rash and getting bopped I Presented by Richer Poorer

It’s pretty good gig sailing around the Indian Ocean surfing for a job, that is until your board bops you...
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Watch “The Antisocial Video” Our favorite Canadian skate shop made a movie

Video by Jake Kuzyk Dustin Henry Ben Blundell Keegan Sauder Rick McCrank Colin Nogue Mitch Charron Brett Stobbart Wade Fyfe...

Frame Grabs aren’t taking over. Yet. Collected Thoughts 114: Nate Lawrence on the new Canon 1DX Mark II

I recently saw a photo from a Canon event where editors from Surfing Magazine were giving a talk. A big...
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Listen to Hope Sandoval & the Warm Inventions The first single off the album, “Let Me Get There”, featuring Kurt Vile

Hope Sandoval & the Warm Inventions, the moving force of melancholy heartache in the form of music, has a new...
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What Youth Mixtape: Halloween Misfits, The Cramps, Bauhaus, X, Ramones and many more dark entries

Of all the holidays we’ve made up, this one comes with the best music by far. Halloween playlists are usually...
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Gunner Day Driving Through Indo Collected Thoughts 113: What makes this kid any different?

So you’re 16 and an up-and-coming professional surfer from San Clemente…so what? There are a lot of those. Like a...
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Watch a new video from Broncho For their song “Señora Borealis.”

I’m obsessed with Broncho. And you should be, too. They dropped their third LP, Double Vanity, earlier this year, and...

The Boys and Girls of Beach Goth The annual shit show of ghouls and music hosted by The Growlers

Everyone’s costume is usually melted off by nightfall. And this year was no exception — hell most of the festival...
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Watch Colin Moran by Jack Coleman Sending it around town and looking

Is it me or is there some serious Gavin Beschen-esque jiving in the tube done by Colin here. And since we...
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Watch Ryan Burch in “Influent +” Slow motion magic

Typically when an entire video is in slow motion we aren’t big fans. When Ryan Burch is surfing it could be one...

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