Skate and Surf Festival

The Story So Far Announce Tour Alongside Four Year Strong, Terror & Souvenirs

Having successfully wrapped up a year of touring in support of their most recent record What You Don’t See and their latest acoustic EP entitled Songs Of, The Story So Far are ready to get back on the road once again. The California pop-punk outfit have just announced that they will be going on a […]

Skate And Surf Festival Announces More Bands Including Acceptance Reunion, The Gaslight Anthem, American Nightmare, And More

Today will go down in history. Acceptance has reunited. The folks over at Skate and Surf have announced several more bands that will be performing at this year’s edition of the festival. The already impressive lineup including Manchester Orchestra, The Dropkick Murphys, The Wonder Years, The Story So Far, The Front Bottoms and more has expanded […]

Skate & Surf Festival Announces First Set Of Bands for 2015

Asbury Park, NJ’s very own Skate & Surf Festival has just unveiled the first wave of bands who will be playing their fest in 2015, and it is a very interesting combination. The festival is scheduled for May 16 and 17. On the lineup are incredible bands such as Manchester Orchestra, The Wonder Years, Dropkick […]

Skate And Surf Festival Confirms First Artist For 2015 Edition

We love Skate and Surf Festival here at UTG, and we’re eagerly anticipating details on next year’s edition of the fest. Today, the people behind the festival have revealed the first artist playing in 2015: Dropkick Murphys. Presumably one of the headliners, Dropkick Murphys are a big acquisition for the New Jersey punk music festival; this year […]

UTG PHOTOS: Skate And Surf Festival 2014

If you’re a regular viewer of Under The Gun Review, I’m sure you’ve seen the wave of interviews we’ve been providing over the past week. At Skate And Surf, we had sit-downs with the likes of Fucked Up, Citizen, Knuckle Puck, Front Porch Step, Bellwether, Hidden In Plain View and Animals As Leaders. We decided […]

UTG TV: Fucked Up’s Damian Abraham Talks ‘Glass Boys,’ Smoking Pot, And His Life As An Otter

Last weekend, UTG TV made the trip to Skate And Surf Festival in Asbury Park, NJ. Due to small stages and an unconventional layout, it wasn’t always the easiest to find where artists were playing. That being said, we had no trouble finding Fucked Up. Vocalist Damian Abraham could be seen from the opposite side […]

Skate And Surf Festival Adds New Found Glory, Alkaline Trio to Lineup

The folks behind Skate and Surf Festival shocked us back in February when they announced that Midtown and Saosin would be headlining this year’s edition of the fest. Today, the lineup gets even better with the addition of headliners New Found Glory and Alkaline Trio. Over the past few weeks, the festival promoters have secretly […]

Skate And Surf Festival Announces Lineup Including Midtown Reunion, Saosin With Anthony Green

After a chaotic return in 2013 that was marred by bad weather, delays, and poor planning, Skate and Surf Festival has pulled out all of the stops to make the 2014 edition, which takes place May 17 and 18 in Middletown, New Jersey, a memorable one for all the right reasons. The first steps in […]

UTG PHOTOS: Skate & Surf Day Two (5/19/13)

Under The Gun sent photographer, Corbin Alvae, to New Jersey for Skate & Surf Festival at Six Flags Great Adventure. Day Two…Once again, what a line-up! This time around I don’t have a funny story (sad, I know) but it did do one thing…RAIN! Like Day One, it was on and off, but wasn’t too […]

GameChanger World Launches App That Enhances This Year’s Skate And Surf Festival

Skate And Surf founder John D’Esposito has spent much of his time in the past few years working on an additional medium most of us overlook: the smartphone app. While a few years ago, after Nine Inch Nails launched their own, artists having their apps was all the rage, it seems now that applications on […]

Skate And Surf Festival Expands Line-up

The 2013 Skate And Surf Festival is growing to enormous proportions by adding a slew of new artists and bands to this year’s line-up. Newly added are Of Mice & Men, Breathe Carolina, Escape the Fate, T. Mills, My Ticket Home, Hollywood Ending, World’s Fair, American Authors, Skip the Foreplay, Pittsburgh Slim, and Complete Confusion. […]

Fall Out Boy Headlining Skate & Surf Festival 2013

We can FINALLY announce that Fall Out Boy will be taking main stage for the Skate & Surf Festival this year. If tickets weren’t moving before, they most certainly will now. You can get yours with a quickness here. Coming to the festival this year is GameChanger, which is an awesome company geared towards increasing […]