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2013 presented a super cool opportunity for FILTER: to be one of three curators part of the “Red Bull Sound Select Presents: Los Angeles” series. This lovely ongoing project showcases top-notch local talent as well as faraway favorities.
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Psychedelic/electronic duo, AM & Shawn Lee, are the masters of making hot and intoxicating hits that take you from the dance floor to the bedroom in just a matter of minutes.
"Good Blood," featured on the pair's latest release, La Musique Numérique, is a good example of this, with AM's silky smooth voice and undeniably catchy "woo hoo hoo"s, hand claps, tantalizing basslines and electronic soul adroitly woven throughout.
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It niggles a bit. Here it is, 13 years into a new century, and Sigur Rós, one of the most revolutionary forces of the aural cause are, well, releasing an…album. OK, perhaps it was too much to hope that they would transcend all banal notions of the music-go-round by, say, founding their own religion or nation state. That said, the curious dichotomy of Sigur Rós has been that their life-altering live performances often seemed more akin to the ZOSO mysticism of Led Zeppelin than the enveloping enigma of their own recorded output. So that Kveikur opener “Brennisteinn” sounds for everything like Jimmy Page’s fantasy of My Bloody Valentine, and is then followed by the Eastern, Physical Graffiti...
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Seven days, one thousand artists, sixty venues across the city... FILTER headed out to Toronto for the 19th year of NXNE to experience all the bands, brews and bons moments we could fit into a 24-hour day, and we weren't disppointed. Below, dive in with managing editor Breanna Murphy's Thursday report of NXNE and stay tuned throughout the week for the rest of the festival recaps.
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Austrian rapper, Ferdinand Sarnitz (aka Left Boy), is letting everyone know that he is coming with his appropriately titled track, "Left Boy's Coming."
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It's been a solid decade since we first heard The Dandy Warhols' infectious track, "We Used to Be Friends," sung by frontman Courtney Taylor-Taylor. These days, Taylor-Taylor is lending his vocals to an alt-country project dubbed Thriftstore Masterpiece—featuring additional artists like Pete Yorn, Isaac Brock, Kristin Blix and more—produced by Charles Normal (the dignified gentleman in a suit and fur cap pictured above).
This stellar musical collective has made it their quest to pay "homage to underdog records of the past," and for their first official outting you really can't do much better than Lee Hazlewood's Trouble Is A Lonesome Town.
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Austin-based indie rockers, Okkervil River, are months away from releasing their seventh full-length album, The Silver Gymnasium—the follow-up to 2011's I Am Very Far—out September 3 via ATO Records.
Produced by John Agnello (Kurt Vile, Dinosaur Jr., John Mellencamp, Cyndi Lauper), The Silver Gymnasium appears to be just as promising with its captivating first single, "It Was My Season," and its accompanying lyric video.
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TEEN's new EP, Carolina—the follow-up to 2012's full-length debut, In Limbo—was released just last month, and the tracks are so good that they're already getting remixed.
Today, we are proud to premiere White Bike's remix of "Cannibal," now called "Cannibal (She's The One)," streaming below!
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FILTER likes music. There's no hiding it. We also like our own opinions a whole bunch, so once a week we give the masses a fleeting glimpse into our selective stereos and Internet browsers to let them see firsthand what fuels our endless devotion. We like to think of it as community service. We're selfless like that. So without further ado, here are the official, inarguable, objectively good FILTER Weekly Picks—providing everything from new LPs you should be spinning to the latest good-fer-you videos. Yeah, we're good at what we do:
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From the freshest shoes to the sickest tunes, our friends at Macbeth know what's up. We've been listening to their "Ultimate Summer Playlist" since April, and now they have collaborated with San Diego-based artist, Kelsey Brookes, resulting in a follow-up playlist to get us through the rest of these low-key months spent poolside.
