FILTER Magazine http://filtermagazine.com Good Music Will Prevail en info@filtermmm.com Copyright 2010 2010-03-12T00:19:11+00:00 News : The Strokes To Headline Lollapalooza; New Album Out This Fall http://filtermagazine.com/index.php/news/entry/the_strokes_to_headline_lollapalooza_new_album_out_this_fall/ http://filtermagazine.com/index.php/news/entry/the_strokes_to_headline_lollapalooza_new_album_out_this_fall/#When:00:19:11Z

Each member may have spent the past few years working on solo and side projects, but the Strokes will return in 2010 in a big way. Indeed, Julian Casablancas and co will release a new LP this September, their fourth, nearly a full decade after the release of their eponymous debut Is This It. The guys will also headline Lollapalooza 2010, along with rumored others including Arcade Fire, Lady Gaga, reuinted Soundgarden, and Green Day.

]]> 2010-03-12T00:19:11+00:00 News : Kasper Bjørke: A FILTER Interview http://filtermagazine.com/index.php/news/entry/kasper_bjorke_a_filter_interview/ http://filtermagazine.com/index.php/news/entry/kasper_bjorke_a_filter_interview/#When:21:00:39Z

What do you get when you take a long-time DJ and producer who got his start as one half of Danish Pop house outfit Filur, is known for remixing everyone from The Ting Tings to Trentemøeller, but is now putting out his sophomore pop album on hfn, a sub label of one of Berlin’s finest minimal techno labels, Poker Flat? In brief, the beautiful, mixed up musical mind of Copenhagen’s Kasper Bjørke. Standing on Top of Utopia truly includes nearly everything, from No Wave and Italo to Pop and Techno, but it’s not to say it doesn’t make sense. The music is so damn catchy. From the glossy, chugging bass lines to twisted synth solos to an otherworldly Rolling Stones cover, every style is given a full representation of its art. And there are even beautiful string arrangements to boot. How can you go wrong?

FILTER recently caught up with Bjørke for a phone discussion about his delightfully schizophrenic dance-indie sophomore album. 


Continue reading at FILTERmagazine.com ]]> 2010-03-11T21:00:39+00:00 Media : The National, Terrible Love (Live on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon) http://filtermagazine.com/index.php/media/entry/the_national_terrible_love_live_on_late_night_with_jimmy_fallon/ http://filtermagazine.com/index.php/media/entry/the_national_terrible_love_live_on_late_night_with_jimmy_fallon/#When:19:07:13Z

The National hit Jimmy Fallon last night, debuting the excellent "Terrible Love," from their upcoming release, High Violet, out this May on 4AD. In typical National fashion, frontman Bryce Dessner's droll delivery provides for the perfect accompaniment to surging guitar riffs. The guys will head out on tour this spring, where they'll undoubtedly debut even more of High Violet's content.

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Nobody puts Conan in a corner. With the dissoultion of his brief stint on The Tonight Show behind him (somewhat, at least) the ginger-haired funnyman announced this morning that he'll set out on a 30-city theater tour. Cleverly titled the "The Legally Prohibited from Being Funny on Television Tour" and billed as "a night of music, comedy, hugging, and the occasional awkward silence," the two-month spanning tour will wrap up June 14 at Bonnaroo, giving the former late night host 12 weeks before his NBC-enforced gag order is lifted.

Team CoCo is clearly a web savvy constituency. The comedian recently took his quirkiness to the interweb, starting a twitter account, and gaining an astounding 15,000 followers within 10 minutes. Also, for laughs, follow the Conan Squirrel as well. It's worth it, really.
 

Continue reading at FILTERmagazine.com ]]> 2010-03-11T17:58:21+00:00 News : Extended Q&A: Ted Leo, Part 2 http://filtermagazine.com/index.php/news/entry/extended_qa_ted_leo_part_2/ http://filtermagazine.com/index.php/news/entry/extended_qa_ted_leo_part_2/#When:15:00:18Z

Here is the second part of our extended Q&A with Ted Leo. His new album, The Brutalist Bricks, was released earlier this week via Matador Records.


An extended Q&A with Ted Leo

What you do as TL and the Pharmacists is historic. But for a lot of us coming up in the dullards paradise of grunge, Chisel KICKED IT. What are your thoughts on what you guys recorded and the impact it made?

Ted Leo: Thanks! I mean, whaddaya wanna know? Chisel started out in late '89, while we were all out at school in Indiana, doing Minor Threat, Mission of Burma and Wire covers (among others), and when we first started writing our own stuff, we were mostly a melodic hardcore band, a la Snuff or something. But after a few years we were all out of school and moved to D.C., and like with CxA in the '80s, a lot of what was happening in the '90s wasn't really working for us, or was at least not what we wanted to be doing, and we started looking backward, too. When people would ask me "Why Mod?" and back then, my stock answer was that when I was 10-years old, my favorite songs were The Who's "A Quick One," and The Jam's "A Town Called Malice," and that was true when I was 10, and it was true when I was 23, and it was just our love of different kinds of music, and our history with this particular kind of music, that lead us down a different path than what most other people were doing at the time. Along with the Nation of Ulysses/Make-up, we had a love of, and fascination with, stuff from the ‘60s and its various revivals, and we fully embraced it. Also, Mods still existed, I'd been a skin, and I knew my history, so it didn't actually even seem all that crazy to us to reach a little further back - in fact, long before Chisel really took the identity on, I ran into Freddie Alva, who did Wardance Records, for the first time in a couple of years at a Garden Variety show at Brownies, and I guess for some reason, he'd had a question about this in his mind for a while, because the first thing he did was look at my clothes and go, "Wow - you really ARE kind of a Rude Boy, huh?" My heart is as Crust as they come, but my clothes have always tended toward something else, I guess.
 
Anyway, when it comes down to it, based on what were really listening to and the direction we wanted to take our music, it made sense to us, was FUN, and actually weirdly challenging, even in the early ’90s. Britpop hadn't really blown its wad all over the U.S. back then, so the reaction that our tight jeans and bowl cuts got on the streets was so insane you would seriously not believe it, especially considering how common it is everywhere today. In that weird weird time, I feel like a pink Mohawk was a more understandable cultural reference to most people. If I had a dime for every time I got called some homophobic slur from passing cars, I'd have... a few bucks. It also strangely WORKED in the music world, though - sometimes I think we felt a bit like outcasts, never really having a sure enough foot in any one world, but most of the time, we were pretty well accepted - we'd turn up at basement hardcore shows fully decked out in parkas and tight jeans amid the baggy shirts and shorts of the day, and get along fine with everyone, partly, I'd assume, because a lot of people knew us from our older bands, and partly because though we CLEARLY weren't playing hardcore, I think it WAS pretty clear that we were from the same world, had mostly same goals, and gave our music and performance as much energy and spit as any of the other bands on any given bill. Of course, by the same token, in the indie-rock world, people understood our musical references as well, and if we were the melodic mid-paced band on a punk bill, then I guess we were the spazzy energetic band on an indie rock bill - it was kind of nice to feel welcome in each area and not ostracized by both. But this is all talk of style - the most important thing is that we as a band, and I as an individual were expanding our songwriting palate and developing new skills and ideas. It was in this period that I think I really started to find my own voice as a writer, mashing up almost every influence I had in almost every song I wrote, and coming out with something that just might have been distinctive? I don't know - but it definitely felt authentic to who I was. As far as the impact that it made, I honestly have no idea. It's not something people ask me about nearly as much as CxA, and I've been pretty busy since Chisel's demise, so... you tell me!
 
 
Hearts of Oak was full of questions. Shake The Sheets couched itself in the possibilities. Living with The Living had but a wee more to say in regard to THE ANSWERS. Was that intentional? Am I off the mark? Do you see you Ted Leo albums with that sort of trajectory?
 
Wow - I'm aware of certain arcs of thought and music over the course of my records, but I've never heard it put quite like that. I think that makes sense, though it certainly wasn't intentional - in 2001, when I started writing stuff for Hearts of Oak, I can't imagine that I'd have been able to foresee the arc that I, personally, was on for the next six years, so there's no way I could have mapped out an ALBUM arc like that - but I guess if you can follow an arc, you can see how one "era" for lack of a better term, flows logically into the next. Having said that, while you might be able to get a general vibe from each album as you have, questioning is still the basis for almost everything I do. I don't have a lot of answers - I have some, but not a lot - and in a way, I'm just documenting the ongoing conversation (internal and external) that flows from these questions, so maybe it's actually just kind of the arc of a very very loooooooong conversation that you're feeling.
 
 
Speaking of trajectory, signing with Matador is a subtle shift from the sorts of labels you've been with, yet with nothing to do with big label. Am I there?
 
Yeah - exactly. With the (hopefully temporary) semi-demise of Touch&Go, I was looking for someone else to work with, and when Matador called, I was happy to answer. It's an independent label, no longer affiliated with a major; with a long track record of putting out some amazing music; it's run by great and enthusiastic people with punk histories more venerable than mine, who are willing to do everything they can to help you get ahead while also understanding and working with your boundaries, and I LIKE them all. It seemed like a perfect fit.
 
 
What the heck does  The Brutalist Bricks mean? I can think of a few things (other than that it comes from “Where Was My Brain?”)...
 
Eh... I mean... I shy away from completely piercing the veil on imagery that I use because, while I definitely know what it means to me, I prefer to leave it open for people to get what they will out of it; but Brutalism is a form of architecture, and in the context of how it's used in the song, which is why I felt it was appropriate to use as an album title (although Twitter helped me out with that, as well), it leads me to questioning theory vs. practice, urban planning, development, exploitation, to find, like with a word, the world of essence signified by a form, and to look beyond form to possibility.
 
 
There's some dramatically slicker stuff here, “Woke Up in Chelsea” in particular (despite the whole God hating, despair-driven lyrics). How and what did you decide on the sound(s) of this record? Was there a moment you loved that you wanted to emulate? That you were anxious to achieve?
 
Slick? Really? I wish we were speaking so I could ask you, "in what way?" But just to tackle "Woke up Near Chelsea" first, that song is not about despair - it's about getting OVER despair, blame, and discomfort, and putting your nose to the grindstone and doing it (with help, of course). Now, regarding the sound of the record, I think it sounds awesome, but I wouldn't exactly call it "slick." Phil Palazzolo, who we did the record with, is an old friend who I ran last spring - when we didn't even really have an album plan yet. We got to talking about music (as old friends do), and he got me really excited about the possibilities we had for making a record sound like I wanted it to sound, which is essentially, "classic punk" without being purposefully retro, if that makes any sense. Towards the end of July, he told me had some studio time open up in August, and after thinking about how great it was to just TALK music with him - someone who understood just about every reference I had - we got it together quickly and jumped in with him. As far as deciding what sounds to use, you know - I've made a lot of records at this point, so I know a lot about what I want to use and how to use it to get the sounds that I want, but one of the exciting prospects about working with Phil, was that I somehow felt he knew a lot MORE ways to do it, and probably a lot BETTER ways to do it, and maybe even some ways that would never even cross my mind - and I was right, and it was great. Mixing with him was really amazing as well, and almost, I think his greater strength - he's a genius with a few EQs and a weird old compressor that nobody thought even worked anymore, and that sort of thing, and I'm really happy with the results... But "slick?" I still don't get it!
 
 
What “Last Days” are you living (or whose) with all those legs in pain, etc?
 
No - it's just a story about catching someone saying that we're living in the Last Days - the Biblical Last Days or whatever - plug any version of anyone telling you that time is short in there and it means the same thing - and it's just saying, "Yo - okay - let's pretend it's true - then you and me, we have some shit to sort out, so let's sort it out, and live these last days to the fullest, doing all the things we should really be doing; and obviously, we're not ACTUALLY living in the Last Days, but whatever - it's a good model - let's go with it!" It's pretty simple, really.
 
 
What was with the Misfits cover thing on Halloween in Philly?
 
Our drummer, Chris, lives in Philly, and he's organizing a series of benefit shows at which he'll form a band to do a specific other band or era - it's a pretty awesome idea, and that was the first one. He asked me to sing, knowing it would be like fantasy camp for me, so naturally I said yes. The only bummer about it for me was that I was really fighting off the flu and was super exhausted, because it already ranks as one of the most fun things I've ever done, so I can only imagine how great it could have been if I'd have been operating at full steam (I actually had to take a 20 minute nap between sets!). But yeah - keep your eye out, because there'll be more. Black Flag is the next one, and though I'm not in it, I'll definitely be there...
 
 
What's the one song  and why that you can't live without on Bricks?
 
It's impossible to answer. We already left a few tracks off the album, so, of what's left, there's no filler for me. I'm sure other people might feel differently about that, but for me, the album is the album (and I'm still a believer in "the album").
 
 
Ted Leo's latest album,The Brutalist Bricks, was released this Tuesday on Matador Records.

]]> 2010-03-11T15:00:18+00:00 News : She & Him Announce Tour http://filtermagazine.com/index.php/news/entry/she_him_announce_tour/ http://filtermagazine.com/index.php/news/entry/she_him_announce_tour/#When:20:34:41Z

The release of their folow-up to 2008's adorably catchy Volume One arrives March 23 via Merge, and yesterday the pop duo released an instantly likable video for "In the Sun," wherein She (indie darling Zooey Deschanel) depicts a seeming high school princess, and Him (Hipster guitar crooner M. Ward) a bespectacled hall-wanderer. To celebrate their second collaboration together, She & Him will set out on an expansive tour, making, among stops at smaller venues and SXSW, appearances at many major summer fests, including Bonnaroo, Sasquatch, and of course, Coachella. The duo are also featured as the latest cover stars in the FILTER Good Music Guide, out now. Check out their interview here, and be sure to catch them in concert if you can- tickets are going fast.

Continue reading at FILTERmagazine.com ]]> 2010-03-10T20:34:41+00:00 News : Here We Go Magic Reveal Album Details http://filtermagazine.com/index.php/news/entry/here_we_go_magic_reveal_album_details/ http://filtermagazine.com/index.php/news/entry/here_we_go_magic_reveal_album_details/#When:20:07:53Z

Brooklyn's own Here We Go Magic will release their second LP, Pigeons, on June 8 via new label Secretly Canadian. This go-around, frontman Luke Temple recorded the tracks with a full group consisting of Kristina Lieberson, Michael Bloch, Jennifer Turner, and Peter Hale.

Be sure to check them out at SXSW, where they'll grace us with their presence at the Dickies Sounds party at  Lustre Pearl.

 

Continue reading at FILTERmagazine.com ]]> 2010-03-10T20:07:53+00:00 News : Little Dragon Hit The Road This Month http://filtermagazine.com/index.php/news/entry/little_dragon_hit_the_road_this_month/ http://filtermagazine.com/index.php/news/entry/little_dragon_hit_the_road_this_month/#When:19:05:11Z

Since the release of their fantastic sophomore record late last year, Swedish electro foursome, Little Dragon haven't skipped a beat.  They've toured the world and are currently featured on Plastic Beach, the latest and critically acclaimed new album from Gorillaz.  Now they are once again crossing the US, with a tour that kicks off this week in Tucson and will wrap with a Friday performance at Coachella.

Machine Dreams is available now courtesy of Peacefrog Records.

Little Dragon Tour Dates:
March
13 Tucson, AZ - Congress
15 Austin, TX - Emo's Jr
16 New Orleans, LA - One Eyed Jacks
17 Tallahasee, FL - Club Downunder @ Florida State University
18 Tampa, FL - Crowbar
19 Orlando, FL -Backbooth
20 Atlanta, GA - Masquerade
21 Charlotte, NC - The Milestone
22 Charlottesville, VA - Rapture/R2
23 Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brendas
24 Washington, DC - Liv
25 Brooklyn, NY - Music Hall of Williamsburg
27 New York, NY - Mercury Lounge
28 Boston, MA - Great Scott
29 Montreal, Quebec - Lambi
30 Toronto, Ontario - The Wrong Bar
31 Cleveland Heights, OH - Grog Shop

April
1 Chicago, IL - Lincoln Hall
2 Iowa City, IA - Mission Creek Festival @ Blue Moose Tap
3 Omaha, NE - Slowdown
5 Denver, CO - Walnut Room
6 Salt Lake City, UT - Urban Loung
9 Seattle, WA - Nectar Lounge
10 Vancouver, British Columbia - Biltmore
11 Bellingham, WA - Wild Buffalo
12 Portland, WA - Mississippi Studios
13 San Francisco, CA - Independent
14 San Francisco, California - Independent
16 Indio, CA - Coachella
 

]]> 2010-03-10T19:05:11+00:00 News : Kitsuné To Drop New Compilation on April 26th http://filtermagazine.com/index.php/news/entry/kitsune_to_drop_new_compilation_on_april_26th/ http://filtermagazine.com/index.php/news/entry/kitsune_to_drop_new_compilation_on_april_26th/#When:18:51:55Z

Paris’ Kitsuné Records is gearing up to release their latest compilation on April 26th.  Kitsuné Maison 9: The Petit Bateau Edition (The Cotton Issue), features 18 songs inspired by a birth in the Kitsuné family as well as one of the worst winter seasons in Paris.  The result is a more candid, innocent and carefree blend of tunes ready for any sunny, Sunday afternoon.

Kitsuné Maison 9 will drop digitally on April 26 and will be available on all digital outlets.

Track List:
Washed Out - Belong
Gamble & Burke - Let's Go Together
Penguin Prison - Animal Animal
Jamaica - Short and Entertaining
Crookers Featuring Yelle - Cooler Couleur
Jupiter - Vox Populi (Lifelike treatment)
Yuksek - Supermenz (We're Not)
Fenech-Soler - Stop and Stare
Two Door Cinema Club - Something Good Can Work (The Twelves Remix)
Logo - La Vie Moderne
Silver Columns - Brow Beatetn
Holy Ghost! - Say My Name
Hurts - Wonderful Life (Arthur Baker Remix)
Gypsy & The Cat - Time To Wander (Joan of Arc Remix)
Feldberg - Dreamin'
Your Nature - Forward Motion
The Good Naured - Your Body is a Machine (Zebra+Snake Remix)
Monarchy - The Phoenix Alive (The Octans Edit)

]]> 2010-03-10T18:51:55+00:00 News : Win Tickets To Coachella From The Temper Trap http://filtermagazine.com/index.php/news/entry/win_tickets_to_coachella_from_the_temper_trap/ http://filtermagazine.com/index.php/news/entry/win_tickets_to_coachella_from_the_temper_trap/#When:18:39:38Z

Australia's The Temper Trap will kick off their first headlining tour tonight in Los Angeles. Hitting several cities nationwide, their two month-spanning tour wraps up with a stop in Indio, at the 2010 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. To celebrate their inaugural top-billing, the band is offering fans a free download of “Science of Fear” in exchange for a tweet, plus the chance to win a pair of 3-day passes to Coachella, where you can catch the band in action. Click here to get the track, from The Temper Trap’s debut album, Conditions, out now via Columbia Records.


 

]]> 2010-03-10T18:39:38+00:00 News : Free The Robots Announce Upcoming Tour http://filtermagazine.com/index.php/news/entry/free_the_robots_announce_upcoming_tour/ http://filtermagazine.com/index.php/news/entry/free_the_robots_announce_upcoming_tour/#When:16:55:34Z

Powered by the upcoming release of his debut album, Ctrl Alt Delete, LA beat innovator and producer, Free The Robots, has announced plans for a long-winded US trek.  Jumping off with a handful of album release shows in the Los Angeles area, Free The Robots (aka Chris Alfaro) will open for fellow experimental DJ collective, The Glitch Mob, starting in May.

Ctrl Alt Delete drops March 30th on Alpha Pup Records.

Continue reading at FILTERmagazine.com ]]> 2010-03-10T16:55:34+00:00 News : First Impressions: Rufus Wainwright, “All Days Are Nights: Songs For Lulu” http://filtermagazine.com/index.php/news/entry/first_impressions_rufus_wainwright/ http://filtermagazine.com/index.php/news/entry/first_impressions_rufus_wainwright/#When:15:04:10Z
Rufus Wainwright
All Days Are Nights: Songs For Lulu
Decca
Release Date: 4/20
 
 
Tracklisting
 
1. Who Are You New York?
2. Sad With What I Have
3. Martha
4. Give Me What I Want and Give It To Me Now!
5. True Loves
6. Sonnet 43
7. Sonnet 20
8. Sonnet 10
9. The Dream
10. What Would I Ever Do With A Rose?
11. Les Feux d’artifice t’appellent
12. Zebulon
 
 
First Impressions:

-Rufus Wainwright is releasing his sixth studio album (the first since 2007’s Release The Stars) on Decca Records. The album is partially inspired by William Shakespeare, as demonstrated in the album's title (All Days Are Nights comes from Shakespeare’s "Sonnet 43," which is the name of the sixth track on this album). The second part of the title, Songs For Lulu, refers to what Wainwright has called “a dark, brooding, dangerous woman that lives within all of us,” which is comparable to the Shakespeare’s Dark Lady.
 
-The album starts off with “Who Are You New York?” which features Wainwright's trademark crooning over an intricate piano melody.  The track is a positive look at the U.S.'s largest city.
 
-“Martha” is a cry to Rufus’ sister, Martha Wainwright. “Martha, it's your brother calling,” is a refrain throughout the track, which seem like a plea from Rufus. The piano gives the track a sense of urgency, along with the general tone of the vocals and lyrics.
 
-“Give Me What I Want and Give It To Me Now!” sounds like it could have been written and performed during the Prohibition Era. It is an up-tempo number and you can envision Wainwright playing in it in a speakeasy. It clocks in at a brisk 2:09.
 
-The middle of the album has Wainwright tackling three of Shakespeare’s sonnets. His versions would make the English bard proud. 
 
-The album’s final track, “Zebulon,” is a tribute to Wainwright’s recently deceased mother, folk singer Kate McGarrigle. He wrote it while in the hospital with her in Montreal.
 
 
Key Tracks:
 
 “Who Are You New York?”, “Martha”, “Give Me What I Want and Give It To Me Now!”, “Les Feux d'artifice t'appellent.”
 
 
Predictions:
 
Per usual, Wainwright makes pain sound beautiful. The man who Elton John dubbed "the greatest songwriter on the planet" won’t let anyone down on this deeply personal, melodic, intelligent album.
]]> 2010-03-10T15:04:10+00:00 News : Extended Q&A: Ted Leo http://filtermagazine.com/index.php/news/entry/extended_qa_ted_leo/ http://filtermagazine.com/index.php/news/entry/extended_qa_ted_leo/#When:15:00:24Z

After spending time in the New York hardcore scene of the late ’80s and then the Mod revival of Washington, D.C.’s 1990s with Chisel, Ted Leo is finally on the cusp. If you’re releasing your first album in two years (The Brutalist Bricks), jumping labels in the process (from Touch & Go to Matador) and rehashing the band with which you’ve long done your best work (The Pharmacists), the cusp is the best place to be. Recently featured in the You Should Already Know section of FILTER's Winter issue, here is an exclusive and extended Q&A with Ted Leo.

Continue reading at FILTERmagazine.com ]]> 2010-03-10T15:00:24+00:00 Media : MGMT, Flash Delirium http://filtermagazine.com/index.php/media/entry/mgmt_flash_delirium/ http://filtermagazine.com/index.php/media/entry/mgmt_flash_delirium/#When:02:12:56Z

The plus side to naming an album, Congratulations, is that it automatically conjures a sense of accomplishment for potential listeners within its music.  The down side is that there are overwhelming expectations for its content.  New York pysch-rock duo, MGMT, have obviously weighed both options and are looking towards future compliments with their new single, "Flash Delirium".

Impeccably titled, the song rotates in a variety of musical directions.  It's got moments of lo-fi surf rock, a section of flutes and horns directly ripped from 1964, punk rock matter-of-fact sass and dual vocals that swim between melodic offerings and borderline screams.  Here, there and almost everywhere, welcome to "Flash Delirium".

MGMT's new record, Congratulations, is slated for an April 13th release courtesy of Columbia.  Grab the free MP3 HERE.

]]> MP3 2010-03-10T02:12:56+00:00 News : Donovan and Others To Perform at David Lynch Foundation Benefit http://filtermagazine.com/index.php/news/entry/donovan_and_others_to_perform_at_david_lynch_foundation_benefit/ http://filtermagazine.com/index.php/news/entry/donovan_and_others_to_perform_at_david_lynch_foundation_benefit/#When:00:07:17Z

It's the season of the witch in LA this month, as Irish Troubadour Donovan headlines The El Rey Theater in Los Angeles on March 19 in a special benefit show for The David Lynch Foundation. He will be joined by his daughter Astrella Celeste and backing band Jerry Vivino, Scott Healy & Rick Reed (from the Conan O'Brien Late Night Band), with special guests Peter Noone (Herman's Hermits), Jack Maness (Sublime), The Global Sound Lodge feat: Matt Sorum (of Guns n Roses, Velvet Revolver) & Lanny Cordola, Donovan Jr., Bob Forrest (Thelonious Monster), Amrita Sen, Danny Saber (Black Grape / Alice Cooper), Carla Olson (Textones), Poe, and more TBA.

Continue reading at FILTERmagazine.com ]]> 2010-03-10T00:07:17+00:00