Ahh Friday, a perfect day for a rad new SB release. Yup, just in time for the holidaze, Nike SB has enlisted the twisted mind of Sean Cliver to create the Krampus Collection. Based on a character of Cliver’s invention, Krampus is the horned beast accomplice of Santa who doles out punishment to the naughty while Santa delivers gifts to the nice. Shit, we’ll take naughty anytime! Check out full looks at the Krampus Collection including Dunk High, Hat, and T-shirt after the jump and look for it at top tier SB accounts this season.

In this week’s dose Tim Brodhagen breaks the news that Pat Hoblin has officially joined SHUT NYC as their newest am. The 21 year Long Island native is a natural born ripper who was also one of the mystery skaters in The Hundreds x Penny’s rad NYC edit. Get to know more about him here.

Brian Jones continues his rad interview series “Know Your Past or No Future” with a dope feature on the artist James Haunt. Here’s an excerpt: Creeping into the darkness of the night like a Panther preying it’s next slay, James Haunt has been throwing up his name since the young buck age of 14 years old. Like most teenagers trying to figure out what the hell life is, James inhaled inspiration from his older brothers artwork and started stalking the concrete playground with a fresh finger in the unforgiving stomping grounds of East Los Angeles. Read the entire piece here.

TheGoodLife! and Louie Vito got together once again to make shred life history with their annual blowout event at the Belly Up in Aspen. This year’s party starring Raekwon and Ghostface Killah with DJ’s Spider, Tina T, and 12th Planet plus a surprise takeover by the Lady WuTang was an over capacity jumpoff that had the likes of Trouble Andrew and the Trouble Gang, Santigold, double X Games gold medalist Mark McMorris, Torstein Horgmo, Mikkel Bang, Kazu Kokubo, Danny Davis, Keir Dillon, Sal Masekela, Jake Burton, and even a gang of NFL’ers including Zane Beadles, Adam Weber, Blake Haudan, Jon Hoese, Eric Decker, Knowshon Moreno, Dave Bruton and Zac Robinson throwing W’s in the air til the early morn. Peep TheGoodLife’s recap edit from the entire weekend featuring Trouble and Santi shredding, Raekwon on his first Gondola ride, Stunnaman running the VIP, and one of the most epic Wu shows west of the Mississippi. TheGoodLife! x Louie Vito’s X Games finale was supported by Nike, Red Bull, Spy, Toyota, Beatport and Radcollector.

We’ve teamed up with our friends at WeSC for another exclusive hookup for Radcollectors. If you are in LA this weekend, get yourself over to the WeSC Warehouse for some super deals on WeSC flavors. The first 15 people to say Radcollector will receive a free hoodie with their purchase. That’s right, with any purchase! So, if you go buy a t-shirt you walk away with a free hoodie! Don’t say we never hooked you up, aight?! The WeSC Warehouse is located at 14801 Able Lane Suite #102 in Huntington Beach. Get the full info after the jump. The sale starts today and runs all weekend so hurry!

We got a hot one for you this morning, an exclusive leak from Trouble Andrew’s upcoming mixtape project “The Trouble Gang Mixtape Vol. 2.” “My Own Rules” features Stunnaman from The Pack and was produced by Trouble and Grizz Lee productions. Rumor has it that Mr. Andrew has nearly 100 tracks stockpiled so stay tuned – we’ll drop em as we get em. Download “My Own Rules” here and hit the jump for the artwork.

Today we are excited to launch a new Radcollector feature series entitled “Girlfriend Shoots.” For the first installment we enlisted our current muse MarLen Diaz and one of our favorite brands, WeSC for a shoot at a hotel on New York City’s Lower East Side. Featuring pieces from WeSC’s Fall catalog, MarLen enjoys a lazy day in the hotel while her “boyfriend” shreds the town. Hit the jump for full pictorial by Jacob Breinholt.