We gonna rock these muthafuckas like-

three the hard way.

"More Plague Spreading From The Barrier Kult"

Check the new emerica video interview with Deer Man Of Dark Woods !

Bust Or Bail

Get a load of Altamont contributors Andrew Reynolds and Justin Figueroa at Thrasher's Bust or Bail! contest in San Francisco, California.

More Bust or Bail Coverage here

Coastal Riders

Coastal Riders is one of the illest shops for snow and skate. This crew does a ton for the community and is always representing. Check it out if you are in Surrey! Thanks for the LRG window fellas.

Erin Wasson x RVCA Collab Fashion Week Video!

September 4th 2008, New York City

RVCA brought the world of action sports and art culture to the world’s leading fashion elite at Fashion Week. Launching its Erin Wasson x RVCA collaboration for Spring / Summer 2009, RVCA hosted a cocktail party and presentation to end all parties – one that New Yorkers are still talking about (and trying to recover from).

Read more here.
More photos on the Color Blog

The Shifter

The Shifter is a motorcycle boot-inspired mid-top skate shoe by Emerica featuring a full grain high-quality leather outer, a heel-to-toe leather inner lining, a gypsy pattern tongue label, a sweet heel strap and no tread on the heel for increased durability. This sleek and versatile shoe is perfect for both skating and for anything afterwards, shipping Fall 2008.

Live Block 2008

One of the best times of the year for Vancouver, mark the date on the calendar. Do check out the eS Footwear mini ramp contest and the Freshjive dance off.

Bright Lights and Hot Nights

A sneak preview of Dragon's Blue Neon Series, featuring the GG, Fame, Wormser, Murdoch, and Domo. Contact your rep for details.

Altamont Presents the CSS Afterparty

The Ballots Are In

etnies Names Team Captains AND RIDERS in Fifth Annual GvR

Ryan Sheckler, Jereme Rogers and Andrew Reynolds Among Those Scheduled to Compete in Pro Skateboarding Event, Oct. 2 - 5

Lake Forest, Calif. (Sept. 4, 2008) – Right or left is a question on everyone’s minds these days, and it will have even greater meaning for the skateboarding world this Oct. 2, 2008 when etnies’ GvR competition pits the best pro Goofy foot and Regular foot skateboarders against each other to battle it out in the ultimate team competition.

After falling to the Regular squad last year, the Goofy team will be led by The Skateboard Mag’s editor-in-chief Dave Swift, as they look to pull ahead in the series. SLAP Magazine’s editor Mark Whiteley will be the Team Captain for the Regulars as they try to come out on top for the second year in a row. After four GvR Skate contests, the score is tied. Both the Goofy team and Regular team have two wins, making this year’s etnies GvR a rubber match and both teams are anxious to ride out with a victory. Riders including Ryan Sheckler, Jereme Rogers and Andrew Reynolds look to make GvR history by leading their team to victory.

etnies GvR will also feature a special live performance by Bad Religion, food, activities and a festival village in addition to the non-stop skateboarding action. etnies GvR is skateboarding’s only team-based competition where riders are separated by their stance, Goofy foot or Regular foot. GvR broke the mold of the traditional skateboarding contest and has set out to settle the debate over which stance is best. With the date set and team captains selected, GvR provides the world’s best riders the perfect forum to provide an answer...at least for another year.

FUEL TV will premiere the etnies GvR 2008 show on Friday, Nov. 28 at 8 p.m. ET/PT in the Skate @ 8 block.

To learn more about this year’s and past GvR competitions, check out http://gvr.etniesskate.com.

Erin Wasson X RVCA

Read up on the Erin Wasson X RVCA collection at http://www.refinery29.com/my_style/erin_wasson.php?page=1.

Blog alert

You should keep the RVCA skate blog on lock! Always good shit from Jimmy and the crew http://www.rvca.com/skate/?cat=1

Skate Jam

End of summer already? Boooooooo.

Congratulations to Ultimate Boardshop for 10 years!

Ultimate Boardshop celebrated their 10 year anniversary last week with Clinton Sparks. Presented by LRG by eS.
More photos here

Liveblock's Afterparty at Pop Opera

THE OFFICIAL LIVE BLOCK AFTER PARTY
JR.FLO (EH! TEAM DJ’S)
HEDSPIN (EH! TEAM DJ’S)
DJ PUMP (EH! TEAM DJ’S)
DJ MARVEL (THE FRESHEST KIDS)

Sunday, Sept.14 at Pop Opera (686 W.Hastings) 10pm-2am sharp
It’s the Official Live Block After party and the only place to be in the city on this night. Insane line up with Eh! Team DJ’s Jr.Flo, Pump and Hedspin on the mix alongside The Freshest Kids..DJ Marvel. $200 bottle service, drink specials all night! See the info on the Livestock Block party earlier on in the day here.
$12 at door

Hieroglyphics

With special guests, Blue Scholars. Presented by etnies, Spectrum Events, Underworld, Clubzone, Livestock and Rhek.

The Clips

Mike Relm

VIA Loco

Our friends at Vancouverisawesome.com are having their first annual picnic at Spanish Banks, Vancouver this Saturday. The person who brings the largest piece of fruit wins a prize!!
See you there.

The Foreigners

For Altamont’s latest trip to Paris, France, they tapped Randy Randall from the band No Age to film and direct their new tour DVD, a short film entitled The Foreigners. In this film, Randy captured an impressionist's view of the Altamont skate team abroad from his unique visual artist's perspective; encapsulating the look, the feel and, of course, the skating to produce this short glimpse of life on the road with Altamont. As an added enticement, the DVD also features a free video for the No Age song "Eraser" off their new album Nouns on Sub Pop records.

View the teaser clip

Bring It To The Streets

"Renting a bus and packing it full of hungry skaters is a good idea, but taking them all over the Greater Vancouver area to skate the cities finest spots with 1000$ to give away is pretty special. We packed 30 skaters and some photographers, filmers and other lurkers in and definitely brought it to the streets. Richmond Bump was the first spot, which lead us to the Richmond banks- also the perfect Marine Drive manual pad. We spent 30 minutes at each spot, so it gave everyone enough time to try and make those pockets a little fatter. From Richmond, B.C, we headed back into the Downtown Core for some perfect Sunday Spots. The rain crept in at Scotia Bank ledge and so we headed up to the Art Gallery for the final spot/money give away. I don't know what was better though- watching them skate the 8 set in the rain or the monster chugging/puking/whipping war. MVP awards to Boyd Young, Spencer Hamilton, Mike aka Hashbrown, Jordan Murray, Stacey Gabriel and Desmond Hoostie. I think everyone walked away with some money though. Thanks to everyone else who came and skated, supported and had fun. To all the sponsors and filmers and photographers- thank you. Can't wait to do it again next year. Peace." - JN

Photos here
Video here

Photos: Judah Oakes

LivEStock

These eS X Livestock tee is dropping for 'promo abuse only' at the Vancouver Live Block party on Sept.14. Come down and cop one!

New Episode of Freshjive's Reserve Radio is Up!

Joey Altruda presents "Music To Trip On" -a tongue-in-cheek mind melting
mixture of incredibly strange music known to cause psychosis to the feign of
heart.

Featuring a diverse fluctuation of genres/artisits including Frank Zappa,
Moondog, Ken Nordine, Lenny Bruce, Phyllis Diller, Sammy Davis Jr. etc.,
Altruda weaves a masterful mix through twenty seven tracks of truly bizarre from the vinyl records cemetery.

Download it here.

Magic, Slate, Project or whatever you want to call it

The show is best summed up by http://www.thearabparrot.com/. Keep his site on lock

Tail Tapas at Liveblock

Color Magazine, eS Footwear, and Livestock present - 'Tail Tapas"
Mini Ramp Jam and Competition
Sunday, Sept.14 outside of Livestock
239 Abbott St in Gastown
1pm-7pm/3pm contest start

Don’t be confused, it’s an event within an event at the 3rd annual LIVE BLOCK party & BBQ. Enjoy DJ's, complimentary drinks, and Japanese tapas by Guu while skating the 4 foot eS mini ramp for your chance to win some cash.

All ages/Free.