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Influences
The Flaming Lips, Devics, JAMC, Bjork, Beck, Doves, Bright Eyes, Bloc Party, Augie March, The Cure, PJ Harvey, The Stone Roses, Hope of the States, Magnet, Clinic, Wilco, The Streets, Snow Patrol, MUSE, The Shore, Felix Da Housecat, KEANE, The Strokes, Lou Reed, Air, The Vines, The Thrills, Modest Mouse, The White Stripes, Radiohead, The Mars Volta, Grandaddy, Cat Power, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Stereophonics, JET, Death Cab for Cutie, Rufus Wainwright, The Cocteau Twins, The Libertines, Jason Molina, British Sea Power, Broken Social Scene, Coldplay, Interpol, Dizzee Rascal, Starsailor, Elbow, The Walkmen, The Crystal Method, TV on the Radio, Dead can Dance, REM, Belle and Sebastian, Travis, South, Kevin Shields, Sunset Rubdown, Queens of the Stone Age, My Morning Jacket, The Rapture, South, Paul Westerberg, Hot Hot Heat, Blur, Elliott Smith, The Kinks, Grandaddy, Frog Eyes, Liz Phair, Ween, The Shins, Gang Starr, Spiritualized, Jonny Greenwood, Zero 7, Franz Ferdinand, anticon., The Sounds, Facing New York...
The Cribs are back with their latest video for new single, "We Share The Same Skies". Relating the story of a broken romance with a third party offering to fix all wounds, the moral of the song's story shines through. No matter what may separate us, we are all in it (or under it) together. Check out this black and white, cut-and-pasted gem below
The Cribs' latest Ignore The Ignorant is available now courtesy of Warner Bros. Records.
contests
Win a Muse Gift Bag From Dakine!
Everyone's favorite anthemic musicians, Muse just released their latest studio effort, The Resisitance, September 15 and are the only act to return for the soundtrack to the second installment in the Twilight Saga, Twilight: New Moon. To celebrate all the excitement, we're giving away a Dakine bag filled with Muse goodies!
Win The Ultimate Yo Gabba Gabba! Prize Pack!
Every adult's favorite kids' show is about to get its very own soundtrack. Yo Gabba Gabba! Music Is Awesome! releases October 20th via FILTER US Recordings. The soundtrack includes performances by The Shins, I'm From Barcelona, of Montreal and many more. We're giving away the ultimate prize pack with tons of goodies. Enter today!
Win A New Order Vinyl Gift Pack!
Electronic 80's rockers New Order are the latest to receive the re-issue treatment. Five of the band's albums- Technique; Brotherhood; Power, Corruption & Lies; and Low Life- have all been remastered and re-issued and are out now, thanks to Rhino/Warner Bros. One grand prize winner will receive the prize pack, including vinyl copies of the five reissues...
Win A LIGHTS Gift Bundle!
Keytar rocking songbird, LIGHTS, has quite the busy fall calendar. She recently kicked off her current and first headlining US tour with Stars of Track and Field and released her debut offering, The Listening, on October 6th. We've got a gift bundle for one lucky FILTER reader with copy of her debut and an animated LIGHTS t-shirt...
Filter Good Music Guide
THE SWELL SEASON: Solitary Refinement
With so much good music in the world today, one magazine just isn't enough to keep up. And with even more bad music out there, we decided it was time to expand our arsenal. Here you have our most sleekly designed handheld yet. If Filter is your mag of choice for the War Against Tastelessness (and it damn well should be), then this shiny little devil is for the streetsjust call it your back-pocket indie argument ender.
Here you'll find our added two-fold online bonus: not only can you download your own copy for free, you can click on every artist we write about and be instantly transported to their home on the web. So if your interests are peaked (and they damn well should be), put that itchy trigger finger to use and click away. Without further ado, we present to you the greatest quarter-sized music mag out there: Filter Good Music Guide.
Download Good Music Guide for FREE
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RAGGED
TAKING BACK SUNDAY: Seize The Moment
We're so proud to bring you RAGGED where we can feature articles on bands from the up-and-coming underground as well as familiar favorites, while our friends at American Rag Cie lend their passion and eye for style to the magazine by showcasing its exclusive clothing line on the artists themselves.
The best part is - you can DOWNLOAD THE ISSUE FOR FREE! This fourth edition of RAGGED features cover story "TAKING BACK SUNDAY Seize The Moment" along with features on The Sounds, Busdriver, A Fine Frenzy, Those Darlins, Landon Pigg and the winner of the most recent fan voting competition, Danny Freeman
Check out the free download, updates on all current and past RAGGED artists and more over at www.raggedmag.com.
Filter Music Alliance
Filter Music Alliance is a network of music fansites, blogs and ‘zines who support great music and features our TOP 5 PICKS each week. Check out the list of sites along with this week’s featured artists’ MP3s and videos here: http://www.filter-mag.com/index.php?c=fma.
about us
Filter is, quite simply, the nation's greatest independent music magazine. Period. We'd go for "world" (and trust us, we're on the way), but we don't like to gloat. It's unbecoming. And besides, Filter is nothing without the people who fuel it, and Filter knows this. But who are these people? Well, some of them are damn fine writers--a ragtag gang of bohemians, poets, alcoholic typists, failed musicians, and ADHD-stricken adults relegated to a life of tearing down musical mythologies. These are people who inhale sound and breathe out text. People who fall asleep face-first on the keyboard and wake up in the record store, waist-deep in a vinyl wreck. People who...well, people who like Good Music, straight up.
Which brings us to the next group of folks who give Filter its distinct personality: the Artists. Modest Mouse, Lou Reed, the White Stripes, PJ Harvey, the Shins, Radiohead, the Flaming Lips, Elliot Smith, Franz Ferdinand, the Mars Volta, Grandaddy, Dizzee Rascal, Belle and Sebastian, Cat Power, Spiritualized, the Rapture, BRMC, Broken Social Scene, the Strokes, Kevin Shields, Interpol, the Vines, TV on the Radio, QotSA, the Walkmen, REM...the list grows with each issue. But the REAL people who make Filter what it is (cue the Aftershool Special theme) are people like you (aww shucks). Without our friends and family, Filter'd be nobody--a bum with no name, and no bling on his robust chest. So you wanna know about Filter? Come here often, share a few laughs, tell us about yourself, pick up the magazine. And remember: Good Music Will Prevail.
Win a Latenight Weeknight Records Prizepack including the new Brim Liski EP as well as A Shoreline Dream's Recollections of Memory LP & the neverChanger EP from A Shoreline Dream and Ulrich Schnauss at http://filter-mag.com/index.php?id=196&c=contest
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lyrics from my new song Planet Paradise! hope you feel the urge to lend an ear or two!
