FILTER Issue 17

Where's Angela Lansbury? For Issue 17, we've got a classic who-done-it on our hands: "Who Shot Franz Ferdinand?" It's the latest and greatest from Mini's big brother, where we turn over the controls to Scotlands finest and tell them to not only take their own photos, but draft their own cover story. Plus, all the odds and sods you've come to love from Filter: an exclusive interview with Depeche Mode, Broken Social Scene,the New Pornographers, My Morning Jacket, Death Cab For Cutie, Grandaddy, the Cribs, Dungen, Magic Numbers, Nine Black Alps, Stella's Michael Ian Black, Elijah Wood, and a bully vs. geek rematch from the 1987 teen classic Three O' Clock High. It's strange and beautifull... just like Ms. Lansbury.

COVER
FRANZ FERDINAND: What's Wrong with a Little Destruction?

TRIBUTE
Constructin Time Again: A Brief History of the New DEPECHE MODE

THREE O'CLOCK HIGH: Rematch! A Back to School Reunion

FEATURES
The Spirit Left the Silo: MY MORNING JACKET and the Kentucky Darkness

Learning to Love the White Noise with DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE

Crossing the Great Divide: Why We Love Canada, the NEW PORNOGRAPHERS and BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE

FLARE
The Softest Bullet Ever Shot: NINE BLACK ALPS Seek Solace in Noise

A Trio of One Called THE CRIBS

GETTING TO KNOW
DUNGEN

SONS AND DAUGHTERS

ROB DICKINSON

THE MAGIC NUMBERS

WOLF PARADE

FLICKER
EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED: A Conversation with Director Liev Schreiber and Actor Elijah Wood

THUMBSUCKER: A Conversation with Director Mike Mills

REVIEWS
CD REVIEWS

RECORD COLLECTION with Jason Lytle of Grandaddy

DVDebris

ENDNOTE
MY BUDDY JERRY KICKS MAJOR ASS ON DRUMS by Michael Ian Black