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No Age have been familiar to indie rock fans, regulars at The Smell and subscribers to the DIY, punk/hardcore ethos for years now. But it wasn’t until Los Angeles natives Randy Randall and Dean Spunt began collaborating with Andrew Reynolds’ Altamont Apparel brand that they caught the eyes and ears of an entirely new audience in the formerly bleak “skate rock” circles. Since being shepherded by Reynolds, No Age have travelled to France, scored Altamont’s “The Foreigners” video, collaborated on a line of clothing, toured with “The Goat” and even designed a custom colourway for Emerica’s Archer shoe.

Hopefully, the skateboard industry will continue to embrace these two because despite skate rock’s sordid past, No Age is perhaps a ray of hope for the mainstream, showing that the two terms need not be mutually exclusive.