Monster Children

On a brief hiatus but back by popular demand, I bring you this tall glass of water.

Last night on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Band of Horses paid tribute to the late Jason Molina by covering the Songs: Ohia track "I've Been Riding With the Ghost". Molina passed away in March after a long battle with alcoholism. 

My friend once met a girl on a greyhound bus whose mother used to be in a cult. She put a sheet over her head and stood in the sun and said it made her feel close to god. Watching The Source Family trailer, that story sprang to mind. The documentary follows the wild ride of members belonging to the radical 70’s group of the same name. Described as an experiment in utopian living, The Source Family lived together commune style in the Hollywood Hills, owned a popular LA heath food restaurant, formed a psychedelic rock band called YaHoWha 13 and sought guidance in their unconventional spiritual leader, Father Yod. I swear I'm not making this up. The documentary premieres May 9, at The Standard, West Hollywood.

*Based on his artwork, we assumed the artist Shalo P was a teenage degenerate. Turns out he’s a very intelligent and articulate adult man. Monster Children sat down with Shalo recently, and asked him some questions that we had prepared earlier.*

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If you're on the west coast of the US, get along to this show. Bound to be a ton of F-U-N.

The Critical Slide Society are launching their Bespoke Aloha Goods range in Ron Hermn - Tokyo on the 11th and 12th of May. Instore, TCSS' very own Rama McCabe will be their to help you customise your own pair of tailored Boarshorts which will then be delivered to your door all within 4 weeks! For those of you in Tokyo get to the Ron Herman Store, 2-11-1 Sendagaya Shibuya-Ku and Rama can measure your length... I mean waist.

The Quite Life recently released their Mahalo Collection and damn do those hats look good. So good that they are already sold out, but this lookbook by Jared Eberhardt is worth sharing regardless. Keep an eye on the Quiet Life site for future releases but make sure you act fast because these things go quick.

Surfer x Blood is kicking off their party series...

We have been on a long awaited slumber, patiently waiting for the Spring to Come. And with our much needed rest. We, Surfer X Blood have awoken with the thirst of honey dew and splendor to Once Again bring you the Good Life. This coming Saturday, May 4th 2013 we take over The Standard, Downtown Los Angeles Rooftop and Pool to bring on an endless set of perfect waves that has yet to be seen before.

The Standard, Downtown Los Angeles
550 S. Flower Street
Los Angeles, CA 90071
1-7PM // Saturday May 4th
To RSVP Email: rsvp@surferxblood.com   ~ Include Full Name and Number of Guest ~

I grew up with two older brothers and a dad who surfed. We had a caravan on the beach down the coast, with sun and moon pattern bed sheets and the damp smell of forever-drying wetsuits in the air. I learnt a lot on those coastal trips. I learnt that if you insert a folded straw into the coin slot of a payphone you can talk for free for however long you want, and that you should always wear some form of rubber footwear in public showers. Once, when I was about 14, a whole group of 16 year old guys camped on the same street as our caravan and I noticed that they were eating cereal out of halved plastic coke bottles. So I walked to their camp site and gave them some spare paper bowls and spoons from our vinyl wood patterned kitchenette. The reception I received was everything you are imagining - I was a goddess among mere mortals.

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Singer-guitarist Ben Harper is helping to raise money for the family of Australian pro skateboarder Lewis Marnell, whose untimely death in January at the age of 30 left his family in dire financial straights. A lifelong skateboarding enthusiast and friend to skaters around the world, Harper has reunited with the Innocent Criminals for the first time since 2007 to re-record the song “Jah Work” from his 1997 album, “The Will to Live.” The song is now available here, with all proceeds going to the Lewis Marnell family memorial fund.

Since Record Store Day a bunch of LP's have been surfacing from Boards of Canada. All the records featured the same short atmospheric track, but they all had a different code read out at the end.

On the 27th of April, Cartoon Network aired this commercial, and earlier today the Boards of Canada official site had been changed to redirect to here. Once entering this code: 699742628315717228936557813386519225, you're shown this video and sent to the pre-order of the band's new album, the first new material since 2005. A damn good way to get your fans thinking. 

Pre order Tomorrow's Harvest here. 

Oh-la-la! Do I have some free tattoo flash for you today! This is Jacques, and he is inviting you to Manger de la Merde, which is French for Please Sample My Latest Flan.

Thank me later.

Tin Ojeda, owner of the t-shirt line Drug Money Art, has been working on the follow-up to his East Coast surf short, Kook Paradise. Experimentally shot in black and white on Super 8 and 16, here's the new trailer for Daughter.

drugmoneyart.com

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New Zealand's last hope...... Throw him a few coins and get him back on the QS after his sponsor went dry on the pay cheques. 

*Taking pictures isn’t easy. I used to be terrible at it. I’d go out with my camera, snap away for a while, and then when I got home I’d see that everything I shot looked like shit. ‘That looks shit,’ said my friends, and I was sad about that. So I did some readin’ and I did some studyin’ and now I take amazing photos! Do you want to be good at taking pictures, too? You do?! It’s easy! Here’s how!*

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Brixton just dropped their 2013 Summer lookbook. take a squiz here

What's this? Monster Children's Editor-in-chief Jason Crombie writing on The Huffington Post?

www.huffingtonpost.com/jason-crombie

Since MC set up shop here in the USA we’ve shared a space with the good people at THIS gallery LA. Tomorrow night is their final show and it’s going to be a big one. I’m not even going to pick names…. Just look at the list of the gallery’s incredibly talented friends who’ll be exhibiting and if your in the area, do what you can to get there. Goodbye THIS (for now) and goodbye 9506 N Figueroa

For the release of Thomas Campbell's "Bow Tie" collection for Element Skateboards, Thomas shot and directed a short film shot entirely on 16mm. Converted here to digital for your viewing pleasure

I mean duh. I know you must’ve heard this album already, but then I also know some of you are too busy playing with yourselves and pushing jelly beans up your nostrils to have a clue, so here we go.

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