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Sullen Clothing Turns Up the Volume on Bro-Centric Culture

The tattoo-inspired clothing line tries to create a buzz with new record label

Sullen Clothing Turns Up the Volume on Bro-Centric Culture

For years, local brands such as Volcom and RVCA have cashed in on the link between music and fashion, endorsing hoards of nationally touring bands, presenting showcases and releasing compilations. These days, Sullen is also looking to get in on that action with its new record label, Sullen Musik, re ... More >>

Lovely Bad Things: 'We Almost Got Murdered In Washington'

Facebook​The Lovely Bad Things are featured in this week's print edition in our Local's Only column. You can read the article here, but to catch you up to speed: the quartet based out of La Mirada are known for their rowdy shows and infectious surf pop sounds. They will release a 45 via Volcom Rec ... More >>

TRMRS Shake Things Up

​ Orange County and Long Beach have seen a steady stream of great, scuzzy surf bands arise in the past few years. Case in point: TRMRS (pronounced "tremors," like that Kevin Bacon movie). This Costa Mesa four-piece play self-described "trash pop," which sounds like teenage energy spread furiously ... More >>

A Former Costa Mesa Councilwoman and the OC Skateboarding League [PHOTOS]

Chasen Marshall/OC WeeklyDominic Walker won the high school final.​​​While 20 middle school kids were competing in the semifinals in the halfpipe, the 25 high school competitors had just begun the semifinals on the street course at the Vans Skatepark at the Block at Orange. Overlooking it all, ... More >>

[UPDATED: Shop Owner Response] Surf Shop Survives: Frog House Clears First Hurdle, Has More Challenges to Overcome

Chasen Marshall/OC WeeklyThe shop is small, but its roots in the Newport surf scene are deep.UPDATE, MAY 12, 5:03 P.M.: It's been a mentally draining--and sometimes sleepless--past six months for T.K. Brimer, owner of the Frog House in Newport Beach. Up until Tuesday night, when a city council vote ... More >>

Costa Mesa-Based Action Sports Brand, Volcom Sold to French Group for $607.5 Million

Sold for $607.5 million.​Richard Walcott and the folks at Volcom have good reason to pop a few bottles of the Champagne region's best bubbly. On Monday, the surf, snowboard and skateboard brand reported that it had been purchased by PPR, a French luxury and retail group. Now, the question is ... More >>

Volcom Sues Jay-Z

[Mental Notes] More important, what's going on for Record Store Day in OC?

Battle for the Diamond: Surf Brand Volcom Sues Jay-Z Over Trademark Infringement

Jay-Z may need to find a new shape.​De Beers lied to us. A diamond is not forever. Jay-Z has been throwing around that diamond hand signal for a few years now and using it as the logo for his music company, but a Costa Mesa surf brand is taking legal action to get its diamond back.Volcom is suing ... More >>

Wanted: Teen Filmmakers (By Volcom and Newport Beach Film Festival)

​Volcom and the Newport Beach Film Festival are looking for teen filmmakers--not for any nasty purposes, but to generate submissions for the annual spring youth cinema celebration.This will be the seventh year of the Youth Film Showcase that runs during the Newport Beach Film Festival, whose 2011 ... More >>

Pepper

The Grove of Anaheim

Maloof Money Cup Competition Begins

​The Orange County Fair, nightly concerts in Pacific Amphitheatre and potential new owners measuring the closets aren't the only things going on at the Orange County Fairgrounds in Costa Mesa these days. Tonight through Sunday, the Action Sports Arena there will be taken over by skateboarders seek ... More >>

What You Missed: Warped Tour, The Slam Skate Competition, Psychedelic Furs

Doug Neill​So the weekend's over, the US is out of the World Cup, and yeah, you're back in the office. Already. But let's relive the weekend. Just for a bit. What'd you miss? We were all over the place again, dropping in on the Warped Tour in Carson, the Slam OC Skate Competition in Costa Mesa and ... More >>

Wax On, Wax Off: Agenda Tradeshow in Huntington Beach

​ ASR, usually the surfing world's biggest tradeshow, will be hard pressed this year to compete with the success of the Agenda Tradeshow this past weekend. Held at the Hyatt Regency in Huntington Beach, Agenda saw a wide assortment of designers, surfers, artists and industry types converge for p ... More >>

What You Missed: Agenda, Sonic Youth, Where's the Band?, AVN

John Gilhooley The AVN-Adult Entertainment Expo 2010.​What'd you miss this weekend? First up: Photographer John Gilhooley had the worst assignment ever: Shooting the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo 2010 in Las Vegas. It was four days of porn, girls, porn, girls, sex toys and giant inflatable, bucking ... More >>

Wax On, Wax Off: New Year's Dispatch from Mammoth

MammothMountain.comWax On, Wax Off has been chasing snow and festivities around California during the holidays. That, combined with shaky wifi and limited computer access, has made things on the blog a little slow. But this week is shaping up to be a raging good time up here at Mammoth Mountain. Wit ... More >>

Wax On, Wax Off: Report from Oceanside's California Surf Festival

by Aaron MendozaThe California Surf Festival, held in Oceanside this past weekend, was like a ghost town most of the time. There was no bustling festival on the streets, no heady atmosphere full of people. Many of the film screenings were nearly empty. Perhaps it was the decently shaped west combo s ... More >>

[BEST OF OC] El Artista (the Artist): Aaron Kraten

What You Missed: Joan Jett, Wild West Costume Party, Volcom Fashion Show, ALL & Big Drill Car, OC Mud Run

Keith MayAmerican Apparel approvedWho hates summer as much as we do? What? No one? Sure there's always tons of things going on every day and every weekend during these warmer months--but you're also moist like, the whole time. Or is that just us?We had a full weekend, as always. And it was so full i ... More >>

TONIGHT: Riverboat Gamblers at Detroit Bar

Yes, it's not a state secret...Wednesdays are boring. Usually. But then again, there's always room for surprises. Like the whoop-ass Texas-born punk of The Riverboat Gamblers. Passing through California on a west coast stint, this furiously energetic tattooed five piece makes a stop at Detroit Bar, ... More >>

TONIGHT: 'KUCI Nights' Get Started at the Yost in Santa Ana

Here at the OC Weekly, we're rather big fans of KUCI, UC Irvine's community radio station. So it's a no-brainer to suggest checking out their first ever "KUCI Nights," tonight at the Yost Theatre in Santa Ana. It's five bands, all from southern California: LA's Castledoor and Death to Anders, and OC ... More >>

[Newport Beach Film Fest] Orange County Connections Abound Among This Year's Entries

Newport Beach Film Festival Seeks Young Talent

If you are a filmmaker who is 18 or younger, the Newport Beach Film Festival wants you. Entries are being sought for the 2009 Youth Film Showcase, a free springtime event that gives young people a forum for their cinematic masterpieces. Besides allowing budding Tarantinos opportunit ... More >>

Road Builders Union to Surf Industry: Fuck Off!

The Los Angeles/Orange Counties Building and Construction Trades Council issued an ultimatum to the Aliso Viejo-based Surf Industry Manufacturers Association: stop sponsoring environmental groups opposed to the 241 Foothill-South toll road or face the mighty wrath of more than 100,000 union workers ... More >>

[Locals Only] Pepper, 'Pink Crustaceans and Good Vibrations' (Law Records)

[Summer Guide] The Simple Pleasures of an OC Summer

Vibrant Plumage

Birds of Avalon

More With Less

Not in this version of Romeo and Juliet

Trendzilla

Side Boobage! And other good fashion stuff from 2007

Trendzilla

The evolution of surf/skate fashion

Hits!

Greene Records

It's Good to Be Natural

No. 1: Save trestles. Or dont.

Hits!

Bionic Records

Trendzilla

The bro

'Military Is Very, Very Important'

And camouflage is back, at the latest Action Sports Retailer expo

Tomboy Sexy

Girls, old guys, argyles and skulls at the Action Sports Retailer bash

!Ask a Mexican!

SHOCKING THEMSELVES

JUNE 23-JUNE 30

Beverly Center? Weve Got Two of Those!

And we know how to use them

Armada Sighted Off the Coast

Armada Skis finds success making skis at the beach

Live Previews

Where Dank Lives

ASRs little bro, Agenda, does just fine hawking board-sports gear in a chilly warehouse

Go for the Discounts

Stay for the brand names at Shelter Streetwearor cause your kid wont let you leave

Killing in Tons

Welcome to Schmoozeville

Relishs 29-hour drive as a career metaphor

The Fuckin' Contest

'Noise and Chaos'

Relish on the road with Warped

Frock&Roll!

How OC surfwear companies sell you without selling you

Not Another #%&@$* Year-End List!

Yes, another #%&@$* year-end list!

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