Featured Video of the Week: It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: DIY or Die
Watch this exclusive behind-the-scenes video of our backstage chat with Charlie Day & Glenn Howerton, while shooting the cover for the new issue of FILTER "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: DIY or Die." Pick it up on stands September 3, and catch the season premiere of "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" September 16 on FX.
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The Happy Hollows Time Scavenger Hunt!
With so many advances in technology o lighten our load, it's easy to get lost in the fast paced nature of the day-to-day world. How often do you actually get to pause and enjoy specific moments before they fly right by? FILTER and The Happy Hollows, understand this importance of appreciated time and have created The Happy Hollows Time Scavenger Hunt. Click the link for details!
Win a Melissa Auf der Maur Swag Bag!
It's been six years since the world has been blessed with any solo material from bassist/photographer, Melissa Auf der Maur. Today we're in luck, as her latest multimedia project, Out of Our Minds, is digitally unleashed exclusively via iTunes. In celebration, FILTER's giving away a Melissa Auf der Maur Swag Bag! Featuring a copy of OOOM on CD, a MAdM t-shirt and one special edition comic book, it's perfect re-introduction to our favorite, red-haired frontwoman.
Win a Vinyl Lovers’ Prize Pack from Bigbang!
Norway's Bigbang have made a stateside splash as of late, with their latest Edendale. Your buddies here at FILTER are here to celebrate Bigbang's success, with a Bigbang prize pack! One lucky winner will recieve a vinyl and CD full-length copy of Edendale, a Bigbang t-shirt, a copy of their single, featuring "Hurricane Boy" and "LA Song." Enter below, and good luck!
Filter Good Music Guide
The National: Seeing is BelivingWith 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 streets just 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
You can download a PDF version of Filter Good Music Guide for FREE by right-clicking here and choosing "Save Target As.".
RAGGED
Good Charlotte 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 tenth issue of RAGGED features cover story "Good Charlotte: Fashion Ready" along with features on Suicide Silence, The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Angel Taylor, 3OH3!, Go Radio, and a special alumni highlight, Eisley.
Check out the free download, updates on all current and past RAGGED artists and more over at www.raggedmag.com.
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.
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