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The AMall Glen Cove Comp was held Saturday, Feb. 27 at Glen Cove Elementary School in Valencia, Calif., a legendary Bay Area spot. Competitors included Ivan Narez, Victor Arias, Michael Braud, Korey Waikiki, Stephen Babcock, Boo Garnsey, John Vossoughi, and more. You can download the episode directly here, or on iTunes or Stitcher. (The cover […]

Hailing from Manteca, Calif., Shawn Oberg (@shawn.oberg) is a master of full-boot utilization, usually doing tricks that would drive a contest MC nuts. We talk about how switch and dominant foots form, red curb dancing, his upcoming Filth File, his edit for Moonshine, and why he’s currently walking with a cane. You can download the […]

Cameron Talbott returns to the podcast to talk about the Northwest Shred Tour coming to his hometown of Missoula, grizzly bears, and good spots to hit up in Montana. We begin at the end of “State of the Art” and share our immediate reactions. (Spoilers: it’s the best $19 you can spend on Sellfy this […]

After dozens of trailers and tons of super effective marketing, the first of at least two Deadpool movies came out this weekend. And by came out, it demolished numerous box office records, including opening weekend for a comic book and R-rated movie. Some comic book movies include references that non-comic book readers really have to search […]

The latest installment of the Blade Video DJ series covers the T-Bone Films classic, Hoax 2: Anarchy Across America, featuring artists like 311, Sublime, Bad Religion, Biohazard, The Grabbers, and others. Before you jump on us, we realized we goofed: Hoax 2 was released in 1995, not 1994. You can download the episode MP3 file directly […]

Jeremy Raff and John Vossoughi are rollerbladers currently living in San Francisco. Their video, Citizens, debuted at the Blading Cup and will be available soon on VOD. On this episode of the Rock Town Podcast, we talk about the various skaters featured in Citizens, including them, Neil Chen, Brendan Tidd, and Czar. Raff also talks […]

Kevon “Biz” Thompson is an American rollerblader, musician, filmmaker, and creator of the 2013 blading documentary “I’m Still Here”. We discuss NorCal and SoCal, Black Market, Big Wheels as a gateway drug, making instant best friends with Gregory Preston in a middle school English class, who was behind ThemXNiggas, white dudes in dreads, how poetry […]

I didn’t even know another Ninja Turtles movie was coming out. I thought the last five or six Michael Bay perversions of fond childhood memories had been enough. First Bay made Transformers horrible and then he turned Shredder into a Transformer. Why? Because shiny things and BOOM! That’s why. So the trailer for Teenage Mutant […]

The 2015 Blading Cup took place Nov. 7 in downtown Santa Ana. Host Brian Krans takes you through his weekend, including skating in the Veterans Cup, helping build a street course, and getting a black eye. Featuring interviews and commentary from Jeff Stockwell, Sean Darst, Ben Weis, Alex Wick, Ariel Surun, Ivan Narez, Jason Reyna, […]