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Mountain Dew & Wine In Maspeth

Daily News November 3rd, 2025 · 12:00 am · 5

QS for Krooked soon 👀

🗳️ If you live in New York, you can find your pollsite here.

📅 Tristan Mershon and friends are premiering Singer Tower at 1139 Bushwick Avenue on Saturday, November 21st @ 7 P.M. Includes parts from Johnny Cumaoglu, Mark Humienik, Marse Farmer, Josh Narvaez, Nate Grzechowiak, Dustin Eggeling and Neil Herrick. Flyer here.

Added the Vu Skateshop x ACE Trucks “Fells Point Pilots” part — filmed exclusively at Fells Point in Baltimore — to the QS One-Spot Part Map 📍

A 2025 Big L album means “Summer Trip To New York” edits are covered on #musicsupervision at least through the remainder of this decade.

An Instant NJ Classic — Matty Hilzenrath’s ‘A 20 Of Regular’ Video

Daily News June 27th, 2025 · 10:21 am

🔑 Words by Adam Abada
📷 Photos by Matty Hilzenrath & Yusef Dwider

It is easy to imagine the title of this video uttered from a driver’s window to a gas station attendant. Twenty bucks can get you a lot of places in the only state where the law requires someone to pump your gas for you. In A 20 of Regular, the ground covered situates it in the echelon of great New Jersey videos. Its textures and rhythm call to mind great independent videos like the Grains series and Rust Belt Trap, but features enough of its creator Matty Hilzenrath’s personal touches to herald a skate videographer coming into his own. The 40-minute video lives and breathes its crusty spots, with extended time given to run-ups, landings, and the in-betweens of filming.

NJ Report — Anthony Gordon in “A 20 Of Regular”

Video June 18th, 2025 · 12:00 am

📷 Photo by Matty Hilzenrath

New Jersey is a beautiful, dense place where three shops can forego any territorial tendencies found in other places, and unite to create one really special video. NJ, Travel and Underground all have riders represented in Matty Hilzenrath‘s NJ instant classic, A 20 Of Regular.

Hot Banks Summer

Daily News June 16th, 2025 · 12:00 am · 1

Thanks to everyone who grabbed a piece of Snacks in Progress merch. We still have free shipping on all orders over $50 for the time being 📦 Shout out to the deli men who keep our lives running 24 hours.

Free has a premiere of Garrett Boozer’s opening part in Matty Hilzenrath’s all-NJ video, A $20 Of Regular. All those Peaches lines + 5050 flip back tail + the flip back noseblunt bonk on the sewer cap + the fuckin’ nose manny nollie flip on the goddamn grate bridge = one of the best Jersey parts in recent memory. We’ll be premiering a part from it this week, and hardcopies of the full thing are due out soon.

Jamie Reyes has been inducted into the Skateboarding Hall of Fame 👑

Civil Skateshop’s first-ever full-length video is now live. Filmed enitrely in Rhode Island, our country’s smallest state with no shortage of crust and the occasional slab of inviting marble ;)

NJ Report — ‘you*re amazing don’t forget it’ by Connor Cloonan

Video April 3rd, 2024 · 12:00 am · 3

📷 Photo by Sammy Levy

“you*re amazing don’t forget it” is a New Jersey scene video by Connor Cloonan, combining the crews from Branded Skateshop in Long Branch (right next door to Wenning’s hometown), and Travel Skateshop in Rahway (…someone or other’s hometown.)

Though Jersey (and by this same token, Long Island) is famous for producing skaters that go on to be more closely associated with the mega-scenes just across the state lines, the Jersey videos that exist in an insular Jersey-fied world always feel like their own genre. Sure, there’s a couple out-of-state clips, but like, you could substantially pad the runtime with a few more day trips up to New York or down to Philly — but wouldn’t it be better to dig behind every gloomy industrial park, around every state college campus, and under every highway for morsels of gold that Freddy, Petillo, Derm and them missed? (Or revisit a NJ classic with the world record for longest running sticker?)