Featured Video of the Week
U.K darlings sOuth have released the video for their latest single, "Better Things". Filled with pneumatic tubes that carry the answers to all of life's problems, it could easily offer a ray of hope for the disenfranchised. Watch as the better things in life comes toward you! sOuth's latest release, You Are Here is available now, courtesy of bluhammock Music.contests
Win the Best Of Radiohead 2-CD Set & DVDWe love Radiohead; you love Radiohead. This is why we've teamed up to offer all music lovers the chance to win the band's first ever career retrospective. Yes, on June 3rd, Capitol/EMI will release Radiohead: The Best Of, and we've got five sets of the 2-disc Limited Edition CD and DVD to give away to five lucky winners. Win 30th Anniversary Blondie 'Parallel Lines' Reissue CD/DVD
To commemorate the 30th anniversary of Blondie's iconic album, Parallel Lines, Capitol/EMI will release an expanded 30th Anniversary Edition on June 24th, complete as a CD/DVD with four bonus audio tracks and music videos. We're giving away five copies of this collector's edition re-issue! Win Elvis Costello 'Momofuku' CD & Vinyl
Elvis Costello And The Imposters have jumped back onto the scene with their new album, Momofuku. Recalling early Costello at its best, we're fans and decided to giveaway three prize packs each including Momofuku on cd & vinyl. Win a VIP Prize Pack from The Republic Tigers and Dakine
The Republic Tigers have recently released their much-welcome debut album, Keep Color, and are now on the road with Nada Surf. To get you ready for the tour, we're giving one lucky winner a Republic Tigers t-shirt, cd as well as the 'Tigers' favorite Dakine bag. Win Signed Jaymay Vinyl
With her organic charm and poetic afterthoughts, New York songbird Jaymay will readily make her way from your stereo to your heart with her debut album, Autumn Fallin'. We want to help spread the good word and are giving away three prize packs, each including an autographed 7" vinyl of single "Sea Green, See Blue" and a copy of the cd.
Filter Good Music Guide
Portishead: Sour Times Are Here AgainWith 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.
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RAGGED
Kate Nash: Everyone's Listening 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 "Up In Arms: Kate Nash & The War On Apathy" along with features on Gran Ronde, Q-Tip, Monte Negro, Thrice, Grand Ole Party and Switches
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.
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