The first in a series of hand painted studies that aim to psychedelically capture the individual styles of influential skateboarders.

It’s getting cold in NYC, support one of graffiti’s pioneers who came upon a bad situation.

Token Entry at City Gardens. Photo by Ken Salerno.

“My favorite place to eat at is Ciro’s in East L.A,” Estevan says. “It’s a small family-style restaurant, with the best jukebox in the world. The waitresses are all elderly Mexican ladies, and it feels like eating at your aunt or grandma’s house. I always order the three hard-shell taco plate (two chicken and one potato), which comes with rice and beans, jalapeno salsa, avocado salsa and chips, and jamaica to drink, ‘cause it’s the bomb.”

Ciro’s
705 North Evergreen Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90033

Portrait of Estevan by Mike Hulett

From Monie Love and Queen Latifah to Black Sheep and the Jungle Brothers, the Native Tongues are one of the deepest crews in hip-hop history. Even if you leave out De La Soul and Tribe, both unquestionably among the greatest groups of all time.

The good folks at Devil’s Pie got together with The Specialists’ DJ Bonds to put together a tribute to the Tongues, touching on highlights from each artists catalog. Bonds puts his foot in the mix, with selections, sequencing and cuts all on point. This is one in a series of themed Devil’s Pie mixes including Sade, Motown and DJ Spinna and my best of Organized Noize project eventually. Find them all here.

Download “Devil’s Pie Presents The Native Tongues Tribute (Mixed By DJ Bonds).

One of the reasons people love summer so much is because it allows them to roam freely, offering a brief chance to know what freedom really feels like. Surf site Korduroy.tv offers a bunch of free-living advice for those water babies who want to become more “surf sufficient,” and have just added a new one–how to live in your van.

Our respects to old-school graffiti writer KASE 2, who just passed away at Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx. A South Bronx native, he was famous for inventing the “camouflage sketching” technique, for being a general style master, for getting up even with one arm, and for his role in the amazing ’80s graffiti documentary Style Wars. Our thoughts go out to this legend’s friends and family.

Revok, Rime, and Roid have an art show coming up at Known Gallery on the 20th. of this month. This teaser video is magic.

If you happen to be in NYC this weekend, don’t be a fool and join in on the annual “Harold Hunter Run”. Everybody stand up!

New from London-based Slam City Skates comes an exciting video companion to their latest collection in order to celebrate their 25th. anniversary, quite a hallmark in the world of skate shops. Not merely content with displaying their wares in a brand video, the piece actually serves as the trailer for an upcoming documentary film sponsored by the brand and features several of their own sponsored riders. Entitled “City of Rats,” the stylish yet grimy film is sure to inspire skate fans in the UK and abroad.

Make your friends jealous with the ultimate in Beastie Boys Fan Memoribilia. Each figure in this set comes with a button down shirt, pants, shoes, white jump suit, safety goggles, work boots, safety vests, belts, extra hands and a stand. If you have $750 to spare, you can not only have this collector’s set featuring MCA, Mike D and Ad Rock in the likeness of 11.5 posable vinyl action figures, but all of your proceeds will also be going to organizations that benefit children with cancer.

With all the hype around street art recently, Art In The Streets, Taki 183′s The History of American Graffiti, we figured that the guys on the other side deserve a little attention too: the buffers. Middle-aged white men who cruise the streets of their local communities in ‘graffiti lynch mobs’ searching for tags and street art to buff out. And how are these men cleansing the streets of graffiti? By splattering, pouring, and covering the tag, throw-up, mural etc with paint. Now, doesn’t that sound like a form of graffiti?

A couple of buddies decided to follow around these self proclaimed street cleaners vigilante style catching them illegally painting other people’s property. Vigilante Vigilante premiers August 12th at the Roxy Theater in San Francisco. Here is the official trailer as well as some bonus footage.

Eight albums reworked by Johnny Marr and Rhino UK and packaged together for the first time:

The collection includes all four of the band’s studio albums – ‘The Smiths’ (1984), ‘Meat Is Murder’ (1985), ‘The Queen Is Dead’ (1986), ‘Strangeways, Here We Come’ (1987) and their sole live album ‘Rank’ (1988) as well as firm fan favourite compilations ‘Hatful Of Hollow’ (1984), ‘The World Won’t Listen’ (1987) and ‘Louder Than Bombs’ (1987). Each has been taken back to original tape sources and remastered by Johnny Marr and Frank Arkwright at the world famous Metropolis Studios in London.

Available through Rhino UK.