Monster Children

In Issue #38, we profiled the awesome band Guards. The Californian three-piece has just released their debut album, In Guards We Trust, and we have a bunch of copies to give away. Simply subscribe by 8pm end of Memorial Day weekend (Monday, June 27) and score a free copy. Your music for summer: covered.

Los Angelenos, make sure to catch the Blank Tapes perform at the Satellite, Friday, May 31st, as they celebrate the release of their latest record, Vacation, which after having a listen to the groovy tunes makes me want to pack up the van and do just that. The evening also brings you sets from fellow favorites The Abigails and Jeffertitti's Nile. 

A whopping $8 bones. Get at it.

As introduction to this years Surf Film Festival, those crazy Spanish dudes have made a mockumentary series about searching for the perfect wave. Definitely the most insane and ridiculous, filming the festival has been part of all leading up to the official image of Surf Film Festival 11.

This years festival has events running through the entire summer, in partnership with other collectives who work around the ocean; new exhibitions, cultural spaces and workshops. Heaps of music, good films from Thomas Cmapbell, Taylor Stelle, Patrick Trefz and many more, all to be announced on the 30^th of May. 

Chapter 1: The boat leaves for new adventure 

Chapter 2: Swimming with skarks to the desert island 

Chapter 3: Finding the perfect wave

Bring on summer.... Brixton

The ourCASTE Quick Cuts series are a bi-monthly collaborative release from a community of enthusiasts interpreting the things they love through different mediums influenced by the sub-cultures that connect us all.

Visualising a story of places they've been, people they've met and experiences shared together, ourCASTE seek to be a curator of sorts to the youth and an outlet for those weird, left brain ideas to be projected to that otherwise wouldn't necisarily have a home for. The end goal aiming to be a series entirely created by contributors. 

Check out the website to see a bit more what they're about. 

'Welcome Home'

Per Crombie's request: the first installment of Gross Shit.

Enjoy.

Knost and crew are finally giving the East Coast some attention. 

New joint from Noa Deane, tearing the bag out of some Telos Island gems, nicely edited to Nirvana's 'Radio Friendly Unit Shifter'.

Watch If I Wasn't with the man himself here. 

Following the release of the 48-20 Chrono, a piece inspired by speed and torque-measuring instruments. Wow, genius! Nixon has announced they will be releasing a limited-edition 48-20 Multi LTD. They’re only releasing 482 of these globally. You’ll want to follow Nixon to get one of these around your wrist…

Ken Cosgrove sure knows how to dance. Shit that was a funny episode.

Not only is Tabitha McGregor one of the creative brains behind Byron based THRILLS, she is damn handy with the pencil on paper. If you are anywhere near The Art Park this coming Friday until June 14th, you must go see this show. 

Here is one man that is not shy of a beer at sunrise. We may be three days late, but it's always beter late than never when you get an email from the Prince of Puerto Rico. 

IVI and HUF just released a limited collaboration based on Keith Hufnagel's signature frame, the Standard. Only 100 available at Huf or IVI online

COMUNE just debuted the first of a series “Shades Of Blackness” highlighting the personal and professional lives of their Drop City contributors. Kicking things of they created an intimate portrait of Warren Thomas, the man behind the band The Abigials, diving into his stuggles with life, drugs, and women. Worth a watch.

A few months ago I met this guy, Monte, at a bar and thought, “that dude has good hair.” Turns out his mates have good hair too and together they make music, as is expected by guys with good hair. The difference with these particular guys is that their music is actually impressive and is now on offer in their debut full-length album *Hex.Lover.Killer*. I asked my new mate *Michael Tramonte* for a quick lesson in all things Delta Riggs - which was great - but more importantly, I figured out why they call him Monte. 

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Oceana, WA is an old coal mining town surrounded by an amazing landscape. However, it's home to an Oxycontin epidemic. High school girls battle $800 a day habits, while families struggle to support their children, but have full prescription bottles. 

Oxyana is a new documentary about Oceana by Sean Dunne, an American based director, who became widely recognised for his online documentary American Juggalo.

Watch the trailer here: www.oxyana.com

San Francisco based photographer and director Andrew Paynter's latest exhibition 'Environments' presented by Converse, is a collection of beautiful landscape cloud photography on show from this Saturday. May 18th 1-5PM at Canvas Gallery, Malibu.  

DSL Magazine making damn good stuff again. Dropping 28 May.