seattle on seshn

Who said the industry was only in Southern California? Sure there are some heavyweights chillin in California, but Manik Skateboards is putting in motion a major attack plan to change the game. Here they are representing their home town with a skate demo at Innerspace in Seattle, Wa. Watch out for these guys, they are some of the best skateboarders in the Northwest and dare I say…anywhere.
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Seattle’s skateboarding scene is making major moves this year, with Creature’s featured rider ripping it, Manik Skateboards getting major media coverage, and now the latest piece of footage from Josh Jones…wow! Seattle, represent! Check out this clip for some quick tunes, quick tricks, and inspiration to end your work day.
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If you live near the Seattle area you should be stoked. The new Highland Skate Plaza is hosting it’s official grand opening on May 16. A bunch of festivities will be going down such as a best trick contest and a skate demo and autograph signing from the Nike SB team.
 
This should be a bangin’ good time. If you are going to be attending the event, make sure you hit us back with some photos and a story about what went down. You can do that here.

The Melvins have announced a new album set for release on July 8th, 2008. The album entitled “Nude With Boots” will feature 11 new tracks from the band, consisting of the members that recorded their last disc released in 2006. The band will also be headed out on a full blown promotional tour in support of the album. The tourdates are yet to be announced, but the album should rock hard.

The Seattle music scene might not be churning out multi-platinum recording artists in sets of two’s and three’s, but the mid 90’s alternative explosion still has some bands playing live and selling records. Pearl Jam is the latest band to be going on tour, and here are the latest dates from the guys that made it big, and survived the crash of the Seattle grunge explosion.
June 11: West Palm Beach, Fla. (Cruzan Amphitheatre)
June 12: Tampa, Fla. (St. Pete Times Forum)
June 13-15: Manchester, Tenn. (Bonnaroo Festival)
June 16: Columbia, S.C. (Colonial Center)
June 17: Virginia Beach, Va. (Verizon Wireless Center)
June 19: Camden, N.J. (Susquehanna Bank Center)
June 22: Washington, D.C. (Verizon Center)
June 24-25: New York (Madison Square Garden)
June 27: Hartford, Conn. (Dodge Music Center)
June 30: Mansfield, Mass. (Tweeter Center)

I moved to Seattle from Los Angeles last year in March, and was disappointed in finding out that a downtown skateboard park was dead and buried, so that the city could provide more parking spaces for visitors to the Space Needle and the surrounding complex.In the weeks that would follow, several meetings were held, and calls for attentions were placed in newspapers both far and wide in the City, and no skateboarders seemed to rise up and take a stand. Instead, the community did not rebuild the skateboard park as promised, and for the most part has been on a tirade of closing down skateboard parks, and making sure that skateboarders are not heard.The most recent of events to cast a shadow on the Seattle Skateboard community is the news that the beloved indoor skateboard park, “Skatebarn” is going to be closing down, unless a miracle occurs in a hearing scheduled for March 12th, 2008. If no one comes forward and puts up some serious cash for the massive indoor skateboarding haven, the city will add another skatepark to its number of skateboard related closures.In a city that is so diverse in art, it sure hates skateboarding for some reason. They are quick to build condo’s, close down music venues, and skateboard parks, but are slow to respond when the community needs help. Read the whole story about how the Skatebarn could be here today, gone tomorrow, by clicking here.Seriously, this is getting old fast, in the last year Seattle and the surrounding areas have closed down at least 4 skateboard parks. While there are rumors of a “skate plaza” being built ten minutes from downtown, no immediate plans to replace the downtown skateboard park, have surfaced.