Skate punk is something taken seriously in the desert. We’re always looking to finish an argument about what constitutes a good slab of skate punk wax. Phoenix has a long history with both ...

Thirteen years after the release of the last installment of Skate Rock, seminal skateboarding magazine Thrasher has resurrected the long-running skate comp. series. The new edition, titled Skate Rock ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

In 1981, Phoenix punk band J.F.A. (a.k.a. Jodie Foster’s Army) released the Blatant Localism EP on Placebo Records. Remarkably brief — the entire record clocks in at six minutes, 34 seconds — the ...

Skating and punk rock have gone hand in hand since the late '80s, but some albums are better to skate to than others. There'll always be arguments over what qualifies as skate punk (we didn't count ...