Shane Cox, the consummate team rider, hits us off with another video drop. Check this little video he threw together of some of his latest outings. Shane’s got spots!

Cam and Steve aren’t gonna let a little rain stop a sesh. Peep this little vid our newest sqaud members threw together on rainy afternoon in Venice Beach.

Long lost Liberty friend Colt Bowden is in town right now from SLC. Ben Paulsrud passed us this little link of some footage. He’s been demolishing all of the local spots since he’s been in town and we’re wondering why he’s not on the team? Colt, what is your deal man? He was on before and we have no idea why he’s not around. Colt, come back to us buddy! Colt’s a great guy and even is responsible for some of the painted magic in the Liberty Boardshop dressing room at the Brea store.

Our ears are still buzzing off this new ear candy, so we bring you this update. The tribute/benefit album Ciao My Shining Star: The Songs of Mark Mulcahy features the track “All for the Best” from Thom Yorke and now has a video for the song. Rolling Stone premiered it earlier today. And the album is to be released September 29.

So you may ask why the tribute/benefit project. Well Mark Mulcahy has quite an eclectic music background. He was the main vocal piece for the 80′s Connecticut-based alt-rock band Miracle Legion, which released some hard to get your hands on albums. Later the band called it quits in the middle of the 90′s. Mulcahy also fronted Polaris, the group who created music for the Nickelodeon kids’ show “The Adventures of Pete & Pete“. Later, he contributed three solo albums to the world.

Late last year, Mulcahy’s wife Melissa died unexpectedly, leaving him to take care of his three-year-old twin daughters. So if Mulcahy is going to keep making music, he’ll need help. And fortunately, he’s getting it.

View Yorke’s official video for “All for the Best“ exclusively at Rolling Stone.

Apparently Thom sang the song with his brother, Andy Yorke who is the singer of the band Unbelievable Truth. So this would be the first time the two have ever appeared on a song together. Very nice!

View the unofficial video below.

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Beck’s Record Club is at it again. The Record Club is musical savant Beck’s brainchild where he and a hoard of musician buddies record a cover of an entire album in a day. For this round Mr. Hansen has rounded up the likes of MGMT, Devendra Banhart, Binki Shapiro from Little Joy and Bram Inscore and Brian Lebarton from his band, to reinterpret Leonard Cohen’s album Songs of Leonard Cohen.

The first song released is “Suzanne” available to view just below. Check out Beck.com where a new track is to be released each week. Very nice!

Record Club: Songs Of Leonard Cohen “Suzanne” from Beck Hansen on Vimeo.

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From the desktop of current Great Northwest resident: Evan Shieflebine.

Hello friends. Raymond Molinar recently listed Quim Cardona’s Non Fiction part as one of  his favorites (I don’t recall where) and so I looked the thing up and basically had my whig pushed back (all nice friend) by the part as a whole. The spots, the trick selection, the music, and even dude’s attire is impressive: Halfcabs, chinos, and the wind breaker- timeless! Watch Quim’s part and enjoy some street style boarding that is timeless.

Bat for Lashes were recruited to perform live on Jimmy Fallon’s NBC Late Night show last night. And the always enticing Natasha Khan and her fellow cohorts ripped it up performing the newest single-”Sleep Alone” off their second full length album Two Suns. Two Suns is one of the Liberty HQ’s favorite albums of ’09 to date. The album has also recently been nominated for 2009 Barclaycard Mercury Prize as ‘An Album of the Year’. Khan’s vocals have a dazzling yet spooky degree that gives one chills down their spine and makes the hair on one’s neck stand up all at the same time and so does this live performance!

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Julian Plenti Unleash “Games for Days” on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon! The album was released via Matador on August 4th and has contributions from guests including Mike Stroud (of Ratatat), Sam Fogarino (of Interpol), and Charles Burst (of the Occasion). In a Matador press release it was reported that, the Julian Plenti character began in 1996, as Banks played some NYC clubs, and then “went on sabbatical” just as Interpol started to rise in 2001. So if your a fan of Interpol, chances are you won’t be disappointed with JPIS. Feed your ears good sounds!

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Radiohead just blessed the world with a new song to download entitled “Harry Patch (In Memory Of).” The song is available to stream here. Now this isn’t just any song, it is a somber tribute to Harry Patch, the oldest surviving World War I soldier in combat who died on July 25th at the age of 111 (thats right one hundred and eleven) and will be layed to rest on August 6th (reported now as only three verified surviving WWI veterans alive). The download is priced at £1 ($1.70 U.S.), and the profits are going to the a veterans’ charity set up by the Royal British Legion. Buy the song here. Patch served from 1916-18, fighting on the battlefields of France in 1917. Now his memory is forever immortalized in song, inspired by Harry Patch’s words.

“The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.” -Benjamin Disraeli

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Stereogum premiered the newest Octopus Project  (Josh Lambert, Toto Miranda, Yvonne Lambert and Ryan Figg) Video for Wet Gold. I would classify this video as oceanic-psychedelia which perfectly suits the tune. OP’s new EP Golden Beds is to be released 7/28 through Peek-A-Boo. The EP is Enhanced and is to include 5 songs and 7 new videos. If your a fan of American indietronica stream the EP here- your ears will thank you! 

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