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Best Friends Day

by hunter on August 6, 2010

Do you like music?  Bikes?  Whitewater?  Best Friends?  Then you have to make the trek to Richmond, VA for Best Friends Day!  Every year in August, people travel from across the country (and the world) to enjoy friendship and music.  Best Friends Day will include 4 days/nights of music and partying along with lots of biking and for you kayakers, whitewater.  Check it out

BEST FRIENDS DAY

A few of the bands you can plan on seeing are Andrew W.K., Propagandhi, Municipal Waste, and the Dopamines… but it doesn’t stop there.  The list goes on and on.  Best Friends Day is very wild, unique, and one of the coolest events around!

While in town, bring your boat.  The James River in Richmond offers some great playboating year round.  While the river may be a bit low in August, there will still be water out there.  The locals are friendly and will be happy to show you the low water lines that are fun.  Here’s a couple of pics from the concrete gorge in downtown

- Hunter
RapidTransitMusic.com

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Dear Landlord live video…”I Live in Hell”

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Drop your energy drink and listen to Dear Landlord…it’ll do the trick.

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Straight out of the RVA, The Riot Before!

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Rebellion, The Riot Before’s newest album, rocks…check ‘em out! And why your at it, you may as well check out the record before this called Fists Burried in Pockets.

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Friendly neighborhood hills on longboards

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Felipe has been sharing some carving and sliding skills with me as of late. We’ve been wearing our SR Standards on the hills. I took a board to the face last week and decided the Full-Face would be a good idea. We shot some video one recent afternoon:

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Bird Dream Of The Olympus Mons

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With the upcoming Pixies tour in mind I was reminiscing of those middle and high school days when I first discovered “alternative” (as it was referred to then) music. My first introduction into this vein of music was through skateboarding. In 1986 my mom bought me a video called the Vision Pro Skate Escape.

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Practice night with The Oatmeal Conspiracy

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Last winter I got a backstage pass to an Oatmeal Conspiracy practice session. Once I got past the swarm of raging women who were trying to beat the doors down I was able to get my camera out and shoot a little. It’s pretty cool to hear the song writing process and pieces of what could be a real song one day. Maybe one of the jingles in the video will be their next hit.

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Something new with Leatherface

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The freedom to find yourself and to be original is still alive in music, and I think The Stormy Petrel by Leatherface does just that.

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Dirty Tactics

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River City Canoe & Kayak in Louisville, KY

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When I say KY I don’t mean the slippery kind. Nope, I’m talking about the place between the East and what seems like nowhere. It has been quite some time since I’ve ventured into the great KY. Come to find out, Louisville is a really cool town, and now that there’s a really great paddling shop there it’s that much better. (Side note: While I was there I learned about a pretty incredible music festival that happens annually in Louisville on the banks of the Ohio River called Forecastle.

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Safety bro

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Rapid Transit safety tip.

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