The illest summer bag out there by a long shot, Burton’s Lil’ Buddy has two new colorways for Summer that have just landed at the Burton flagship stores in Chicago, New York and Los Angeles. If you have one of these from summer’s past, you know, the cooler/stereo speaker/goodie stash combo is impossible to beat. Both the mod “Clash” colorway (above) and the classic “400 Plaid” go for $59.99 and are in stock now. For more store info go here. Check out the other Buddy after the jump.

Von Zipper just freshened up their website with the addition of all their summer softgoods and eyewear as well as their 2010 goggles. Get over to there to peep freshies like the Banana Hammock trunk with integrated fanny pack, the Bunker sunglasses dropping late July, and the John Jackson Skullcandy goggle collab with the integrated money clip headphone system. It’s all right here.

On this day of conflicted emotions following the loss of Michael Jackson yesterday, Neff has released a simple and powerful statement with their “Long Live the King” tee. Classic yet rad, it reminds us how great the King of Pop once was and that for all the chaos of his later life, there was and will be no one who will ever do it better than him. RIP MJ. Purchase details coming soon on the Neff site. Check out the black version after the jump.

Just in time for summer shred camp season, Burton has teamed up with High Cascade Snowboard Camp on the Shred Scout Pack. Mashing HCSC’s new branding with Burton’s dot pattern and throwback graphics this pack is probably bright enough to save you in an avalanche. Expect to see these all over Mt Hood this summer. Detailed looks after the jump. Via Cadmus Family.

Dakine, known for the portability of their packs and bags, among other things, is now taking their web game on the road. Today they launched a new interactive site with everything including products, team riders, news, sponsored bands and a retail store locator. The site will also featuring streaming video and music for 3G and WiFi enabled devices. Finally, both ski and surf reports from OnTheSnow.com and Surfline.com will be included as well. Go here to check it out.

ESPN slash Action has an interesting interview with Sam Lee from Snow Park NZ, a sick pipe and park facility in New Zealand’s southern Alps. For the last three years Snow Park hosted the Burton New Zealand Open but then realized that they would need a massive overall to continue to maintain an event of that size. Rather than grow, or even close as some rumors were saying, Snow Park decided to return to their roots as a local mountain. Read the whole thing here.

We previewed the sick Oakley x Grenade Frogskins that are coming down the pipe for you a little while ago. Now we give you a look at the whole kit. With custom hard and soft cases and a Grenade Army dog tag, along with that ill laser etch logo on the lens, these are gonna be the hot ticket Froggies for sure. We should have a release date soon. More detail looks after the jump.

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Brothers Factory just dropped this ill teaser to their upcoming flick, Time Is Now. Scored perfectly to RJD2 and featuring some sick riding from Jeremy Cloutier, Phil Jacques, Nash Lajeunesse, Greg Desjardins, P-O Houde, Jordan Bell, Kael Hill, Frank April, and more, as well as a bunch of dope random shit, this is the essence of a good trailer. We’ll be on the lookout for this one. Via Snowboarder.

Forum launched a killer new website for 2010 today. Man, doesn’t it feel weird to say 2010? Do you say “Twenty Ten” or “Two Thousand and Ten?” And what about the abbreviation, do you say “Oh Ten?” That’s some freaky future shit! On the same tip, Forum has mad futuristic shit on their new site including all new product info, videos, and of course, a blog. Via Transworld Snow.

The Euros are really on it this year and have been hitting us off with trailer after trailer of ill material. So we expect nothing less than that from the Pinard crew out of Switzerland who do more than satisfy with the trailer to their upcoming masterpeice “Pinard c’est des tocards!” Translating roughly into “Pinards are deadbeats!” these dudes show us yet again that fun is rule number one in Europe. Via BroBlog.