Extreme Sports

Whether Truth or Fiction, This Ain't California Is Engrossing

OFF THE WALL

Buy Larry Clark's skater gems

Only the Young

Waiting for Lightning Hits the Big Stunt But Misses the Big Questions

Why Danny jumps

Bones Brigade: An Autobiography

Lil Wayne Hits The Decks With The Deweezy Videos

Last night at recently reopened Greenhouse, Lil Wayne the rapper welcomed Lil Wayne the skater to the world via the premiere of DeWeezy. Maybe it's because he started rapping professionally at an age when most kids where still learning their multiplication tables, but Wayne has always seemed to have ... More >>

Q&A: Joey Bada$$ On Singing Biggie At Two, Tumblr Stalkers, And Finishing High School

Joey Bada$$ is perched over a Pac-Man tabletop arcade machine at a neighborhood bar in Flatbush. With a glass of Sprite resting on the video game's screen, he confesses that he's never played Pac-Man before, gives a laugh, and says, "I probably suck at this." Bada$$'s lack of experience at early-'8 ... More >>

Splinters

HANG LOOSE

It's surf season in New York

SURFIN' NYC

Pro surfers compete for a cool million

New X Games Event is Sisyphean Ordeal of Dirt Bike Stupidity

Above are the highlights for the X Games' (short for "Extreme Games," in case you were an old person in 1993) newest event: Enduro X. As you can see, the ladies competing had some trouble with the course, located in Los Angeles' Staples Center. ESPN, who runs the Games, says the new event has "has ... More >>

Live: Undead Jazzfest Shows Off Its Rock-Solid Vital Signs

Brian Chase (l) and Alan Licht (r) perform at Kenny's Castaways on June 23.​ Second Annual Undead Jazzfest Kenny's Castaways, Sullivan Hall, (le) poisson rouge, The Bell House, Littlefield, CrossFit Gym, Homage Skateboard Training Facility Thursday, June 23 through Saturday, June 25 Better ... More >>

Tillman the Skateboarding Dog Takes New York (And We Meet Him)

As soon as you give a dog a skateboard, the iPhones come out. After all, skateboarding dogs are pretty much the perfect storm of YouTube video success (one-of-a-kind moments, extreme sports, and cute animals), and no one does it better than Tillman. You may know him from the iPhone commercial, or m ... More >>

Tiny Skateboarder Adorable, Gnarly

Via The Daily: seven-year-old Asher Bradshaw is a precociously talented skateboarder in L.A. who is totally the next Tony Hawk. Just look at him go! My favorite element of this is watching him interact with the older skaters at the skate park. His role models are these grizzled burnouts with holey ... More >>

What Do Lil Jon and Susan Sarandon Have in Common?

Lil Jon and Susan Sarandon, reenacting the Twins poster. Photo via Complex/Say_WordYo​A love of skateboarding, apparently. Both were at yesterday's Maloof Money Cup at Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens, a pro skating competition sponsored by the infamous Maloof brothers, owners of the Sacra ... More >>

Maloof Money Brings NYC a Massive Skate Party, and a Free Park

​In a lonely corner of Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, in the shadow of Philip Johnson's decaying New York State Pavilion, construction workers are filling the Astral Fountain with huge chunks of styrofoam, which will then be covered with concrete. Is styrofoam really a good idea as a building ... More >>

To Alleviate Depression, Watch a Bulldog Skateboard

​President Obama may be heading our way, but we're also pretty excited about Tillman the skateboarding bulldog, who "loves New York City," reports the Daily News. In the city, "there's a lot of concrete, a lot of dogs, and a lot of open space, believe it or not, for him to do his thing," says ... More >>

Surfer Blood Cover Neutral Milk Hotel, Owe Todd P Everything According to Miami New Times

Hey, wouldn't you know it, Surfer Blood casually cover Neutral Milk Hotel's "Two-Headed Boy" over a bottle of El Presidente, and it's not half bad for a bunch of dudes who won't even get up off the couch! They even screw up a couple times and it's still better than that awful Apples in Stereo vers ... More >>

CMJ on the Street: Sam of Florida's The Deaf Children

photo by Sam Horine Sam, plays in Florida's The Deaf Children Best show: Surfer Blood at Piano's Fashion aesthetic: Florida Goodwill, plus comfy long johns. Years at CMJ: First. Best thing so far: Watching friends like Surfer Blood play shows in NYC.

Interview: No Age Talk Spike Jonze, Live-Action Animal Films, and Playing the New Museum

​No Age's week beats your year. Last Tuesday, the duo of guitarist Randy Randall and drummer Dean Spunt released their new Losing Feeling EP on Sub Pop. They also lined up four shows in the five boroughs that are so random and far-flung as to appear the work of four different bands. Tonight, t ... More >>

X Games 3D: The Movie Tests Your Tolerance to Awesomeness

Wow, That Ridiculous J. Mascis Skateboarding Trick Was Actually Performed by J. Mascis

SOTC buddy Ryan Dombal gets to the bottom of Dinosaur Jr.'s video for "I'm Over It," in which the band's three aging members do obviously stunt-doubled tricks on one skateboard and two BMX bikes. Except some of it--and not just the part where J. Mascis awkwardly cruises into the frame, and then si ... More >>

Want to See J. Mascis Do a Kickflip?

Continuing their streak of awesomely, defiantly old-school gestures, Dinosaur Jr. chose to make the video to "I'm Over It" an homage to skateboarding and BMX biking: J. and Murph and Lou cruising around town, Mascis on a skateboard, his rhythm section on bikes. 90% of the tricks here are pretty ob ... More >>

Studies in Criticism: Professional Basketball Player Paul Shirley on Merriwether Post Pavilion

Paul Shirley, professional basketball player, music critic: Try as I might, I can't tell much about an album during its first playback. With that in mind,I thought it would be fun to journal my efforts to grasp something new. First, though, I needed an album I thought would be worth my time. Anim ... More >>

Year in Review: Paranoid Park, Skating For Dummies

Happy Birthday, Spike Jonze!

Beautiful Losers, Aaron Rose's Celebratory Portrait of the Early-'90s L.E.S. Artists

Back to School With the Butthole Surfers

They're collaborating with teenagers now. Terrible idea. Wonderful idea.

SWEET SHOT

Lia Halloran shreds the streets of L.A. for her art

Mike Hill's Frustratingly Inarticulate Chronicle of Steve Rocco

Leaps and Bounds

Rocking and Rolling

Maverick director Clark talks skating, racism, pixelated nudity

Lupe Fiasco: Already Turning Weird

Cheesy Rider: Bare-Chested Biker Boys Bicker, Bond Over Pizza

Cult Following

A holiday guide to coffee-table books with a jagged edge

Breaking the Waves: Z-Boy Trades Skateboard for Surfboard

Art

Halfpipe Dreams

A Bio-Doc Chronicles the Hawking of Skate Culture; a T&A Teen Comedy Just Hawks

Good Game Boy

Endless Bummer

Wet Behind the Ears

Hell Raiser

Outside and In

Teenage Wasteland? Not in These Shows.

The Transporter

'Crutchmaster' Takes Dance to the Next Level

Chairman of the Board

Tony Hawk Airs on the Side of Commercialism

Killing Yourself to Live

Balls to the Wall With Bam Margera & His Crew

Buy Low, Sell High

Rolling for Dollars

How a Bunch of Independent Skateboarders Unionized and Won

On Edge

Aggressive Skaters Have to Choose Between a Living and a Life

Scare Yourself Shiftless

In a 24-Hour mountain bike race, life begins at 4 a.m.

The Outsiders

Skateboarders bring their half-pipe dreams to New Jersey's city of last resort