It's time to don the Vans and get ready to slam. The Warped Tour is here! Vans Warped Tour Long Beach | July 25-26, 2026. The two-day extreme sports and music festival is back from the grave on the LA border town with the OC, Long Beach, what Snoop Dogg introduced the world to calling it, "The LBC." But T.S.O.L. and others were calling it home long before that. It's a big town. With stops in Mexico, Montreal (Canada), and Washington, D.C., and Orlando (Florida), it seems the tour is being cut short. We bet our very own Dukkha Girl will be running into a certain Punk Rock Girl there, as she vamps and acts out her attention whure aesthetic like she did when we last saw her at the private KROQSocial Distortion show. What a poseur, model, and music influencer she's turned out not to be. Right, Erin? We know what Wisdom Quarterly fans are probably asking, How do I get my band on this tour?Here's how: Ernie Ball Vans Warped Tour Battle of the Bands Powered by Guitar Center
2026 TOUR: Los Angeles (Long Beach), Mexico City, Orlando, Washington D.C., Montreal
(BeachLife Festival) Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, May 1-3, 2026, is time for the annual BeachLife Festival. This is BeachLife 2026 (tickets at BeachLife Festival | Live Music Festival | Redondo Beach, CA, USA). Here's a weekend playlist built the old way—listening together, dropping the needle, and letting the music choose itself. It's three days by the ocean in sunny Southern California. Here is music meant to be shared with the people we come with and meet on site. In memory of Greg Browning, whose spirit is always part of the room. 📍 Redondo Beach, Cali 📅 May 1–3, 2026 🎟️. Suzanne Hoffs blew it up last year. Will The Chainsmokers or Sheryl Crow do the same this year?
FEATURING: The Chainsmokers, Duran Duran, Grouplove, Flipturn, Fitz and the Tantrums, The Offspring, Slightly Stoopid, Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Sugar Ray, SwitchFoot, Bad Suns... James Taylor and his All-Star Band, My Morning Jacket, Sheryl Crow, Peach Pit, Poolside, Mike Watt...
Are there really uncontacted bands of humans left on the surface of the planet? Besides in the warm and green parts of Antarctica we are banned from seeing and Sentinel Island off the coast of India or deep in New Guinea and still wandering around in the thick Amazon or out on the Kalahari, aside from those, is there a single human who does not know there are other humans, carrying on destroying the planet? It would seem so. They're probably better off not knowing what we're doing. What about one of the oldest countries in the world, the Kush we now call Ethiopia, are there secret tribes there, riding around on tiny boards with even tinier wheels, doing the impossible?
Suicidal Tendencies is an American punk rock crossover thrash metal band formed in 1980 [5] in Venice Beach (Los Angeles), California, by vocalist [wannabee white gang member/bike clubber] Mike Muir.
Punk? I'm a one-man cult of personality for ca$h
The band [could be called a one-hit wonder with "Institutionalized" on MTV that] has undergone various lineup changes, with Muir as the only remaining original member. [Got ego?]
Their current lineup includes Muir, guitarists Dean Pleasants and Ben Weinman, bassist Tye Trujillo, and drummer Jay Weinberg.
Notable musicians who have contributed to the band's studio and/or live activities include:
guitarists Rocky George and Mike Clark;
bassists Louiche Mayorga, Bob Heathcote, Robert Trujillo, Ra Díaz, Josh Paul, and Stephen "Thundercat" Bruner; and
drummers Amery Smith, Jimmy DeGrasso, Brooks Wackerman, David Hidalgo Jr., Thomas Pridgen, Ron Bruner, Eric Moore, [Slayer's] Dave Lombardo, Brandon Pertzborn, Greyson Nekrutman, and session musician Josh Freese.
It's punk/thrash, but is it hardcore enough?
Along with D.R.I., Corrosion of Conformity, and Stormtroopers of Death, Suicidal Tendencies is often credited as one of "the fathers of crossover thrash" [6, 7, 8]. They have released 14 studio albums... More: Suicidal Tendencies
ALD Teens Skate Day x Altadena Boys
Saturday, Nov. 8, 2025, 1:00–3:00 pm
Free event featuring a pro skater, lessons, food
ALD Teens Skate Day x Altadena Boys
Location Main Library Parking Lot
Audience Tween (8-12 years old), Teen (8th-12th grade). Come be in community. Watch a pro skater shred, get a quick skate session (if a liability form has been signed), and enjoy the vibes!
STAND UP FOR ALTADENA, Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2025, 7:00 pm
Featuring: Marc Maron, Frankie Quinones, Robby Hoffman, Ron Funches, Dulce Sloan, Beth Stelling, Chris Garcia.
Comedy: Stand Up for Altadena
Stand Up for Altadena Comedy Show with Marc Maron and Friends
All proceeds from tickets ($30) go toward Greenline Housing Foundation's Eaton Fire Relief
Eagles Hall, 455 E. Woodbury Rd., Altadena, Los Angeles County, California 91001
SK8 HAVEN
Pro skaters, resources, instructors, autism spectrum/ADHD-friendly Sk8 HAVEN coaches will be on site. Teens on the autism/ADHD spectrum can come earlier (12:30-1:00 pm) to sign up for skateboard coaching.
EVENTS: 1:00–1:20 pm → Welcome + Free Skate
1:20–1:40 pm → Pro Demo (introduce skater)
1:40–2:15 pm → Mini Clinics (basics for beginners, trick session for advanced teens)
2:15–2:45 pm → Open skate
2:45–3:00 pm → Thank Yous + Group Photo.
If participants want to partake in the skating sessions/lessons, they must have a parent/guardian sign an ALD Liability Form. No exceptions.
What began with one child's generosity has grown into a movement. When Samantha Mora shared the story of boys affected by the Eaton Canyon fires with his 8-year-old son Logan, the response was immediate:
"He can have my Xbox and PC!"
That selfless moment sparked a realization: if one child were willing to give his prized possessions to help another, how powerful could a community-wide effort become?
On January 12, @AltadenaBoys was born with a simple Instagram post. By January 17—just five days later—it hosted its first pop-up donation event, proving that the community was ready to rally behind boys in need.
What began as a response to a specific crisis has evolved into a broader mission to support boys' well-being throughout our community. Website: altadenaboys.com
Skinhead white supremacist Hitler Youth from white suburban Orange County and LBC
How PENI, a prison punk rock gang, became "slaves" to the Neo-Nazi Aryan Brotherhood
(Hood Archives) True crime documentary. Oct. 27, 2025: In the 1980s, PENI ("Public Enemy Number One"), named after the British anarcho-punk band Rudimentary Peni, emerged from the Long Beach/Los Angeles hardcore punk scene.
By 2018, their co-founder was murdered on a prison yard—executed on orders from the Aryan Brotherhood (AB) leadership he once served.
This documentary examines how a white punk rock street gang became controlled by a notorious white supremacist prison organization through federal court testimony, law enforcement records, and witness accounts.
Peckerwood is a U.S. racial epithet used against white people, especially poor rural whites [2]. Originally an ethnic slur, the term has been reclaimed by a subculture related to prison gangs and outlaw motorcycle clubs [3,4,5,6]. The term was in use as an inversion of woodpecker in the Southern United States by the 1830s; it is also with the sense referring to white people documented from the 1850s [2]. African-American folklore in the 1920s contrasted the white "peckerwood" bird with the African-American blackbird [6,7]. The word became a common term in Jive. More
DISCLAIMER: This video is for educational purposes only. Content is based on public court records and news reports. There is no intention to glorify or encourage any criminal activity. All crimes discussed resulted in arrests and prosecution and, in many cases, imprisonment. Viewer discretion advised.
Crass Course: Skate Punk (The Punk Historian) May 24, 2021: Crash coarse on the history and evolution of the "skate punk" music genre from the early 1980s to the present. Plus a little of my personal thoughts and commentary.
Background music:
"1977" by D.D.F.
• D.D.F. – Means To An End... (2000) [Full C... (Track 10)
"Locals Only" by Agression
• Locals Only
"These Valley Streets" by Jughead's Revenge
• These Valley Streets (song starts at 0:42)
"Any More Lonely" by First Class
• Any More Lonely
"The Greatest Betrayal" by Much the Same
• The Greatest Betrayal
"Too Old to Die Young" by Straightline
• Straightline - Too Old To Die Young coarse on the history and evolution of the Skate punk genre from the early 80's to the present. Plus a little of my personal thoughts and commentary.
Pop Punk video:
• Crass Course: Old School Pop Punk
Background music:
"1977" by D.D.F.
• D.D.F. – Means To An End... (2000) [Full C... (Track 10)
"Locals Only" by Agression
• Locals Only
"These Valley Streets" by Jughead's Revenge
• These Valley Streets (song starts at 0:42)
"Any More Lonely" by First Class
• Any More Lonely
"The Greatest Betrayal" by Much the Same
• The Greatest Betrayal
"Too Old to Die Young" by Straightline
• Straightline - Too Old To Die Young
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The Lexus US Open of Surfing presented by Pacifico is where the next generation earns their spotlight and where future World Champions are forged. Every heat in Huntington counts. With thousands packing the sand and more looking on from the iconic Huntington Beach pier, it's one of the most electric vibes on the Challenger Series and World Longboard Tours, and the energy jumps off the screen. Watching live = the next best thing to being there.
Watch all the latest surfing action of the world's best surfers in the world's best waves. Heats on demand, event highlights and exclusive interviews, right here on the WSL's YouTube channel.
For more visit: worldsurfleague.com
(California Rewind) May 21, 2025: The California that disappeared — and why it matters. Imagine this: It's the summer of 1985. You're cruising down Sunset Boulevard with your Walkman blasting The Cure. Neon lights flicker above. Skateboards scrape through empty pools. And your biggest worry? Getting home before dark.
That California — wild, rebellious, full of soul — is gone.
This video goes back to a time when California wasn’t curated, polished, or priced out of reach. From skate culture in Dogtown (Venice Beach) to punk clubs on the Strip…from mall arcades and middle-class dreams to a Silicon Valley built in garages not glass towers, this is the story of a California that was messy, electric, and alive.
Discover:
How the streets of LA once belonged to teenagers, skaters, and artists
Why arcades and shopping malls were the heartbeat of a generation
How radio, not algorithms, shaped identity and sound
The Silicon Valley that existed before billionaires
And how California’s bohemian soul was slowly erased
This isn’t just about nostalgia. It’s about remembering the culture we built — and how it was quietly taken away.
Did you grow up in that California? Or do you wish you had? What do you miss? Say it in the comments. We’re listening.
👇 Like, comment, and subscribe if this hits a nerve. Let’s keep the memory alive.
A person gets so sick of politics and politicians, business bullsitters and oligarchs, war profiteers and phony anti-war figures that what can one do but follow the words of Berkeley student Mario Savio? He gets to the point, and anyone who cares about freedom and what America's ideals are said to be might agree. Hey, why not? It's March Forth Day.
(pppaaatttrrriiikkk1) What's the alternative to metal? Nu metal (aka alt metal), at least it was back in the summer of 2003 when Deftones were live at Big Day Out or Big Day In in Sydney, Australia, down under where the fans go around the fur for their adrenaline. Fast forward to today, when the Deftones are in Los Angeles for a big show at the Forum, aka the Kia.
A call for civil disobedience when freedom is threatened
MARCH FORTH is an annual unofficial American holiday celebrated on March 4th to encourage everyone to work towards achieving their dreams. It aims to provide an opportunity for people to take calculated risks towards achieving their goals and developing themselves. It is a special day to take a stand against procrastination or the faux reasons that tend to creep into our heads and discourage us from even trying. The name was made up as a homophone of the day "March Fourth." It is also the shortened version of the full name — "March Forth and Do Something Day." More
Zawia: Zaman Buddhas of Bamiyan Shamama | زمان بت شمامه بامیان
(ZAWIA) Renegade Indian historian Dr. Ranajit Pal, Ph.D., has determined that Bamiyan town is one of the three seasonal capitals that comprise "Kapilavastu," the hometown of the historical Buddha Gautama, formerly Prince Siddhartha the Sage of the Scythians/Shakyians (Shakyamuni). He grew up here in the foothills of the Himalayas, in a part of the Himalayan range known as the Hindu Kush, far from Nepal and India but linked geographically. The prince renounced his life of luxury, here in wealthy but far off place along the Silk Road. He traveled East on a spiritual quest and arrived in the Kingdom of Magadha. (There was no "India" yet, which would come centuries later under the rule of Buddhist Emperor Ashoka, who united many kingdoms and republics to form or re-form Great "Bharat," India, as a nation that included Pakistan and part of Afghanistan (ancient Gandhara), which may have been a country previously at the time of the Indus Valley Civilization, 5-10,000 years before the present, when Brahmin priests treasured the Vedas, the ancient Knowledge Books, and shaped a society to their advantage. The Buddha, Mahavira (founder of Jainism) and other separatists were part of the "wandering ascetic" or shramana (shaman) movement, seeking direct experience of the Truth and teaching a Doctrine and Discipline (Dhamma-Vinaya) open to all regardless of caste or sex. So Mahavira accepted female wandering ascetics (sadhvis, sramaneris, and bhikkhunis) and then the Buddha did, and there were other dharmas that did not survive to the present, like the teachings of Makkhali Gosala. But the Old Vedic Religion was eventually claimed by Hinduism, which came centuries later as it was organized and systematized by Sri Shankara and others trying to make a fully "Indian" religion apart from outsiders and foreigners like the Buddha, who was a Scythian (as the Greeks called them) or Saka, as they are still known from the Northwestern frontier, which includes the strange and rare out of the way land now known as Afghanistan.
Evidence of Afghanistan's ancient Buddhist past (not some later territory conquered by the Silk Road spread of Buddhism) rests on such strange facts that Afghanistan is home to the largest unexcavated Buddhist temple complex (Mes Aynak), larger than Borobudur, Java, Indonesia and its pyramid temple topped by bell stupas (possible mimics of time machine technology rediscovered by the Germans and their WWII Die GlockeET technology), the most ancient Buddhist writings (Gandhāran Buddhist texts), stupa (Buddhist burial mound) treasures found in Tillya Tepe and in neighboring Tajikistan's Ajina Tepe, and the most extensive rock hewn structures and art (like the world's oldest oil painting in Bamiyan), which spread throughout the Stans and into what is now India at its famous cave monastery complexes like Barabar and others, which seem to be miracles of advanced technology built by celestial devas ("shining ones") or works of magical feats (siddhis) wielded by powerful adepts and meditators. The Buddhist marvels at Sanchi are hard to explain as ordinary architecture planned by humans alone.
It can also boast the largest Buddha statues in the world, with the largest still untouched, a reclining Buddha buried somewhere in Bamiyan not too far from the massive standing Buddhas that were destroyed by the CIA and ISI and their creation the "Taliban," whose ranks were filled in by released Islamist prisoners from neighboring countries fomented into a war against the West and Western imperialism, taught an extreme brand of Islam known as Wahhabism, which seems like the creation of CIA cubicle workers in Virginia or elsewhere rather than any kind of grassroots movement. The Buddhas of Bamiyan were detonated in public to create outrage and raise support for an American invasion of "Russia's Vietnam." Afghanistan was and remains "a land where empires go to die," England, Russia (USSR), and China's next. The CIA, Pentagon, and American forces (NSA, NSC, and other alphabet agencies we never hear about in the mainstream press) wanted to invade -- to create an oil pipeline, to secure the DNA of redhaired Nephilim cannibal giants for transhuman super soldiers, to recover time well vimana technology, to control a geopolitical Middle East from the best vantage point, to frustrate the Russian Empire's ambitions, to slow China down (with the CIA recruiting Tibet in its fight, compromising the Dalai Lama to become an asset, training and arming his close relatives in Colorado in exchange for favors and publicity), to help India and intervene by playing up both sides of a long-simmering conflict between archrivals Pakistan and India (a single country that was only divided at Partition in 1947, when the British ensured the ruination of the world as they exited by their "divide and conquer" tactics, much as they ruined and ensured misery for Palestine/Israel); in fact, so much of the world's troubles today can be laid squarely at the feet of the British and their Anglo-Afghan wars and the "Great Game" intrigue against other superpowers, with the USA just being the latest, greatest spear tip for those old United Kingdom/British ambitions to rule the world, which seem rooted in their Germanic and ancient Roman mentality to conduct endless war and banking and imperial religion to rule the world one way or another.
Zawia - Zaman Buddhas of Bamiyan Shamama | زمان بت شمامه بامیان
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FREE Halloween, Equinox, Day of the Dead PARTY and CONCERT with Sublime w/Rome (Woody Show)
This year instead of having our annual beach party (this year celebrating the Halloween, the Fall Equinox, and the Day of the Dead) at my place in Malibu, we're going to party with Samantha Marino and her morning crew from The Woody Show (Alt 97 FM).
It's a FREE concert by SUBLIMEdoing their last show ever with singer ROME(who replaced Bradley) at Morongo Casino and Resort.
WARNING: Consumption of legal cannabis or skateboarding may occur!
This way we get on tribal land near Joshua Tree and Palm Springs, take the skyway to the top of San Gorgonio Mountain (which may have gotten snow that hit nearby Big Bear this week), and party before the depression of the election sets in. DETAILS:
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