Steve Crandall

Coffee sipping pilot of a red FBM frame and a Nikon camera.

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Amazing photo of Max Schaff seen over at 4Q

JNKFD Release Party

For those that don’t know, what’s the deal with JNKFD?
JNKFD is my photo zine, a project ive been working on for over a year now.

You started as a web based entity, scrapped the digital media, and went strictly hard copy, any reason?
The internet isnt real life. As much as you can simulate turning pages on a website or looking at photos on your iphone, it just comes nowhere close to holding a real booklet in your hands. Anyone can publish something on the internet, but walking out of the print shop with a box full of what youve been putting months worth of work into is so much more satisfying.

What’s the scoop with the art opening/ zine premiere party?
It was a blast! the locally owned coffee shop LampLighter, across the street threw together a block party that night and the street was full of people. There was snacks, Christian and I hung photos, had a pile of TVs looping a brand new JNKFD edit along with the older web videos, and with the help of our friends built the sketchiest mini inside the gallery. i got a lot of really positive feedback and cant wait to start the next issue.

How can people get ahold of you to learn more or get a copy?
Email me at JunkfoodBMX at gmail.com

Are you stoked?
Always, especially when awesome people show support, and help me make something im so excited about a reality. Huge thanks to Sykes, Christian H, Chopper, Latane, Evan V, Kenny H, the CTBC, KAF, MOTOSCUM, and everyone else who bought a zine and/or a shirt.

Tour Diary- Super Blog Part 2

Part 2 from the Sexy Crimes Tour de Frazzled.

Hey there,
So we got a new transmission in the van. Made it to Sacramento where we played an awesome show At a really cool house called the den. Then we broke down again in a snowstorm in the sierras and had to get towed out of California. Stuck in Reno for two days. Drove into Utah and across the salt flats where there are millions of pictures of wangs made out of rocks. Now we are trapped in salt lake city because all of the roads over the Rockies are completely closed due to huge snows In the mountains. If we are lucky we can get out tomorrow and get back on track in Minneapolis or Chicago. Yeah! Save some pbr for us we are goin to make it home somehow- Joel and Cassady

See Part 1 of the tour Blog Here

Tour Diary- Super Blog

2 piece punk rock duo, Sexy Crimes intended on doing a tour blog/ diary, but not everything goes as planned… Here goes though.

-We are three weeks into tour and we finally get the chance to sit down and write about what has been going on, due to the van being out of commission because of a transmission situation. But it is being remedied and we are sleeping under a windmill in Buellton, California for the time being so we are going to give you some tour highlights to get you up to speed.

DAY ZERO
Amazing tour kickoff show at Mojo’s, played with It Good and Please Baby Help Me Forget (who rocked but whose scantily clad dancers pissed off the punx). Ate tons of pizza. Recieived best tour care package ever from best friends ever! Stoked. Also picked up our horny merch guy, Ben Pier.

DAY ONE
Stopped at Crossroads to fuel up on some coffee and bagels for the road, then 8 hours later stepped out of the van in Athens GA to realize that Joel had left wallet at Crossroads. What do we do when we fuck up big time? Call Ward Tefft. Problem solved. Ward goes to Xroads and saves wallet, fed exes it for us to pick up in 2 days in NOLA. Headed to John and Ella’s house, ate a delicious dumpstered supper and played at a really fun party followed by alot of standup comedy!!!!

DAY TWO
Swung on a rope swing by the tracks. Joel and Ben got clowned big time by the lady at the thrift store for wearing LITERALLY the same exact outfit. Drove to ATL, found out we had no show. Some wacky shit happened and then we had two shows. One at a rad record store (check out reactionary records next time you are in atlanta, tell Paul we sent you) and one at a really spectacularly crusty house, the catcave. Think mountains of catshit upstairs, lake of sewage in backyard, we had to play in puddles of water getting shocked electrically and heckled by crusty gentlemen with face tattoos and shitty attitudes, one of whom literally whipped out his dick and pissed on the floor next to a pregnant woman during It Good’s set (but got his come uppance when someone stomped on his foot and broke it so the bone was sticking out)…yeah. like that. But we had a time afterwards with our buddy Justin and a bunch of new and old Atlanta friends that we chilled with back at Justin’s house.

DAY THREE
New Orleans. Ate amazing oyster Po Boys from Verti Mart and drank beers on the street, legally! Met up with Candice who rules and who lives in the most amazing punk house ever, played a really fun show with Maddy Ruthless, Nervous Juvenile (candice’s band) plus Sun God and This Moment in Black History from Cleveland. Fun!!!! It rained.

DAY FOUR
Drove to Houston, met up with Bret Shirley, played with Black Congress whose show is basically one big crazy fight featuring awesome fucking wierd postish-hardcore fucking wildASSNESS. Shit is off the chain. Afterwards we went to a party at our friends Roy and Megs’ house where we ate the best taco bell burritos anyone has ever eaten.

DAY SIX
We woke up and went to TAMALE HOUSE!!!!!!!!!! It was totally worth the 45 minute wait to get our migas. Plus a funny lady gabbed at us the whole time we were in line in the parking lot. She thought Cassady was going to get a gun to shoot us all because she was paying so much attention to Joel, even though she was “an old blacklady, all worn out!” Yikes! Then we went to House of Commons where we played Dont Tell Mom Fest. One of the kids who lived there, Kyle, did a crazy monkey trick where he shimmied like 40 feet up a street light pole to hang the banner for the show. It was nuts. Then the show was fucking amazing. All the bands I name dropped yesterday, plus Shannon and the Clams, and a bunch more. Plus we watched Wild America while moshing under a huge American flag. Then we passed out in the van with the doors open!!!!

DAY SEVEN
we saw ROKY ERICKSON
we saw ROKY ERICKSON
we saw ROKY ERICKSON
we saw ROKY ERICKSON
we saw ROKY ERICKSON
we saw ROKY ERICKSON
we saw ROKY ERICKSON

DAY EIGHT
we had to say goodbye to Ben Pier and we were sad. We had the day off so we went to a pretty wack state park, camped out, and cooked a delicious dinner of collard greens, mock duck, and hobo beans (recipe column to follow). Shit was tight. Then we slept forever.

DAY NINE
Learned a lesson that most other touring bands seem to know…avoid West Texas!!. Let me just say we played penny pint night at a scary ass bro bar at Texas Tech, the “promoter” never showed up, the meathead door guy kept chasing us around trying to get us to pay to get in, and the best thing about the show was that Joel didnt get beat up.

DAY TEN
we thought the van was really fucked up but it turned out we just needed a new tire…we had been inches away from a catastrophic flat tire on the highway!!! cool. Got that taken care of and hit the road. We drove through some gorgeous mountains, and were stoked to leave Texas and hit New Mexico, Cassady’s homeland. However, our route took us BACK through Texas. Have you ever heard that Texas is large? Like dude. get over yourself. Shit is like Quantum Leap or something. OK. So back in texas, you could drive like nine million miles an hour and there were no other cars on the highway, but the flipside was it was the windiest day ever in the world. We stopped by the side of the road to pee and cassady had the wind blow pee all over joel and all over the van, which really entertained some nearby truckers. HAHA!!! TOUR!!! PEEEPEE FUNNY!! Then we made it to Las Cruces. Holy shit that town is amazing. The kids there are really rad, we made a ton of new friends like Brandon and Chelsea who made us GREEN CHILE MAC AND CHEESE and then we played a hit show with Shang a Lang, Dead to Me and Off With Their Heads!!!!!! rad day. Then we went back to the house and had wild times. Those dudes from peelander Z showed up and everyone went buck wild.

DAY ELEVEN
took forever to drive to Albuquerque, went straight to Frontier for a green chile injection!!!! Met up with old buds, played a rad show at a really cool DIY spot in Barelas with KIT and Death Sentaence Panda and it was awesome. Then we bro’d down with old ABQ buds!!!!!!!

DAY TWELVE
had to take the van to the shop, but at least we are down with the folks at Wheel Align It, which is a cool shop owned by Heidi and populated by birds and rad mechanics. Turned out van was fine, just had a loose hose. Seth and Jess made us the best green chile pizza ever. (have you noticed a serious green chile theme in new mexico? Shit is seriously really addictive. Once you’re hooked, it’s all over. You want to put it on everything.)

DAY THIRTEEN
we drove one million miles. Were going to camp out near Flagstaff but all the spots were closed. So, we went all the way to Boulder City Nevada where we met up with our buddy and hero, RYAN TIETJEN aka JOKESAMA BEEN LAUGHIN’. Yeah! He was wasted and it was hilarious.

DAY FOURTEEN
Tietjen was done in from the night before and couldn’t make it to Vegas with us. We got to the Bunkhouse Saloon and were given a dirty martini and a free motel room!! Then we played a hit show with Lesser You and The Mapes. Awesome. really fun show. Our motel room ruled! It only had cold water.

DAY FIFTEEN
We drove to Chino and were disappointed that the town is absolutely nothing like the image of it on TV’s “The O.C.” Nobody forced us to rob a car, or threw gang signs, or hit us with a golf club or anything! It’s actually a very nice little town. On the way there, we lied to the agricultural inspection man who asked if we had any produce. We were loaded with grapes and carrots and collard greens! Hopefully we dont upset the delicate agricultural balances of California with our strange foreign produce. We decided just to not throw anything away while here. The show in Chino was really rad. We met up with Tim, Donna and Party Marty at the venue, which is really sweet warehouse with a big parking lot to hang in and a skate ramp and everything. Kindof a mini version of the Bike Lot. Plus they did a sweet bbq in the parking lot! We were stoked. After the show we partied hard with the kids from Horror Squad and they taught us a new drinking game (we drunkenly wrote down the rules in the van that night..apparently its called Chino Bino.)

DAY SIXTEEN
Drove to L.A., where we met up with Craig, who took us straight to the Beach!!!! Then we went to this place called Best Fish Taco which is literally that. They only sell two items, fish taco and shrimp taco, and you watch them make it in front of you, and it is mind blowing. And cheap! Then we had some sweet backyard chillers and threw toys for Natas the dog. Our L.A. show was cool, at a spot called Pehr Space.

DAY SEVENTEEN
We made some tight Migas for Craig and Brian, then later we went to see Harkins at the almighty GRILL EM ALL!!!!! God damn those guys do it up right. They stuffed us full of crazy ass veggie burgers (the biggest i’ve ever seen) and pommes frites with truffle oil. Truffle oil!!!! man. Then we drove to San Diego, chilled on the beach for a while and watched the sun set, went to a wierd bar where all the bartenders have to wear bikinis, and then met up with Patrick and went to our show. Soda Bar is awesome and it was a cool mix of bands: Slow Death, Us, a high school instrumental metal band, an alt country bar band, and the Bertos! Cool. After that we went to this bar where the bartender Renee was from Richmond and made it her project to et us wasted. She succeeded! We gave her Ward’s number and attempted to have her prank call Ward and tell him that we had run out on our tab and that he was responsible for it. It didn’t work. Then we all went and crashed around in Patrick’s house and made out with Dotty the Dog.

DAY EIGHTEEN
Day Off!!! Easy drive up to Carpinteria State Beach where we camped out with hobos, hung on the beach, made delicious food, watched seals hanging out on the beach, and generally had times.

DAY NINETEEN
Twenty minutes into the drive to San Francisco we find ourselves broken down on the side of a twisty mountain road. Chase the wrecker driver saved our asses (he had to get the cops to block traffic a mile down the road so we could get the van up onto his truck! It was hectic.) and brought us through the mountains to Buellton, where we learned that the van’s transmission had finally shit the bed. So here we sit. Hopefully it will be fixed by today and we will make it to Oakland!!! If not we’re stuck here til monday. So. WE MISS YOU! HOPE EVERYONE THERE IS HAVING A TIME!!- Joel and Cassady

More is more

Too Much Mat Hoffman? A pic from 23 years ago, on his first Skyway tour (Giberson Photo), and the beloved Souney pic from the weekend, I just wanted to run a quick comparison! Thank you Mat, for being Awesome!

Hot Water Music releases new album

No Idea Records had just released a new studio album from Hot Water Music. Entitled Redemption, the record marks the band’s return to their original hometown label after years at Epitaph Records.

Owner Var Thelin had this to say about the release and HWM returning to their former home:

‘Twelve new songs, recorded in 2010 at the new Stresstudio in Gainesville, Florida. Redemption shows a return to form for HWM; dual palm-muting, anthemic choruses, and the rhythm section is showboating harder than “Fuel for the Hate Game.” The tempos are up, the energy is scorching, and nary a delay pedal is to be heard. 12 songs, 27 minutes. This is the record you have been waiting for!’

Long time drummer and recently added member to Against Me! George Rebelo plays drums on side A while Against Me!’s previous drummer and current taco shack owner Warren Oakes plays drums on side B.

This will be the band’s first studio album recorded for the label since Fuel for The Hate Game was released 13 years ago. No Idea recently re-released several HWM albums including classics Forever and Counting, No Division, The New What Next, Caution, A Flight and a Crash, and double-LP collection Till the Wheels Fall Off.

The band will be performing at this year’s annual Punk Rock Bowling, hosted by BYO Records, as well as a summer tour of Europe.

Hot Water Music tour dates:
5/7 ‘“ Las Vegas, NV @ Sunset Station – Punk Rock Bowling
6/11 ‘“ Nikelsdorf, Austria @ Nova Rock Festival
6/12 ‘“ Interlaken, Switzerland @ Greenfield Festival
6/13 ‘“ Trier, Germany @ Greenfield Festival
6/14 ‘“ Antwerpen, Belguim @ Trix
6/16 ‘“ Helsinki, Finland @ Notsuri
6/17 ‘“ Goteborg, Sweden @ West Coast Riot Festival
6/18 ‘“ Scheesel, Germany @ Hurricane Festival
6/19 ‘“ Neuhausen ob Eck, Germany @ Southside Festival
6/21 ‘“ London, UK @ Islington Academy
6/22 ‘“ Leeds, UK @ Irish Centre
6/23 ‘“ Newport, UK @ TJ’s
6/24 ‘“ Portsmouth, UK @ Wedgewood Rooms
6/25 ‘“ Paris, France @ Glazart
6/27 ‘“ Barcelona, Spain @ Estraperlo Club

From the forum

“mark and bobby” via cottle

No Friends tour dates

Download the new album here !

NO FREINDS TOUR DATES

4/02/10 Raleigh, NC @ The Pourhouse w/ Deep Sleep, Double Negative, Pollution
4/03/10 Harrisonburg, VA @ Macrock w/ Deep Sleep, Double Negative, Wasted Time, Valkaryie
4/04/10 Washington DC @ TBA
4/05/10 York, PA @ The Skid Row Garage w/ Deep Sleep, Common Enemy, and Olde Tiger
4/06/10 New Brunswick, NJ @ Bosnia w/ Deep Sleep, Nightbirds
4/07/10 Boston, MA @ Church of Boston w/ Deep Sleep, Ramming Speed, Hellbent Hookers, Livver
4/08/10 Brooklyn, NY @ Bruar Falls w/ Deep Sleep, The Bombettes, Nightbirds
4/09/10 Philadelphia, PA @ The Terrordome w/ Deep Sleep, Affirmative Action Jackson, John Wilkes Youth
4/10/10 Richmond, VA @ The Bikelot w/ Deep Sleep, Cloak/Dagger, Dry Spell, Freeman

Variances in Character Traffic

“Shoot it from the Hip, Baby”, the motto Grady Corbitt has been applying to his work since he first picked up a camera. Self-taught from lurking in darkrooms and experimenting with various cameras never steering from 35mm led to eventually enrolling in some photo courses while in school. His main influences are his peers, traveling, New York City and seeing where the night can take him. With a constant nod in the direction of people and decades past he is looking to the future already editing and shooting for a new book project set to be released in the coming months. Portraits Grady photos by: Christian Felber.

“Shades of Red”

“Untitled (Vampira)”

“Downtown at Dawn”

“Laughing Glass”

“Suckers and Chips”

“165 Spread”

“Sustantivo Pescado (the best fish come from Hawaii)”

90East Promo Video

Anyone familiar with the Road Fools Series or Animal is likely to know the name Lino Gonzales and the brand he started last year, 90East. A grassroots style, local scene based company, 90East is creating a strong presence on the east coast, and making a mark with positive and original creativity, through videos, events, and product.

Carlos Rohena rail to gap. Carlos hails from the Great Brook Valley section of Worcester, Mass and can pretty much ride anything in front of him with ease.

Lee Hopkins smith grind. Lee moved down to Jamaica Plain from New Hampshire last year and has been sessioning the city of Boston and searching out its finest spots ever since.

We asked Lino about the inception of 90East and this is what he had to say:

“… As for the company, 90East just started as a group of friends. We had the idea to make a video then decided to step it up and make products for people that can relate to how we do things. As time goes on we plan to expand our product selection as well as do local events. We are all inspired by the history of the local scenes and have a certain love for our cities.
I don’t really know what else to say, I like to let things speak for themselves I guess haha.”

Mike Penney tooth to smith. Mike is really all about having a good time cruising around and it shows in his riding.

90East has a new video due out in April, it has parts from (in order) Abdul Fofanah, Jake Frost, Mike Penney, Carlos Rohena, me, New England mix section, Harold Harwood, Jake Gayewski, Jesse Williams, and Lee Hopkins. its 25 minutes long, and there’s 25minutes worth of bonus footage including video parts/footage from 1999 till now of the crew.

Light yourself on fire

Matt Coplon from Profile as seen in the “2010 Ultimate Local Band” guide in Tampa

Subtle Irony

Strike Anywhere, playing a show at a bowling alley.