FILTER USA Tour! (Details in the making...)

Filter has announced an upcoming summer tour! The "U"nder the "S"kin of "A"ngels tour, hence "USA"...

Dates and locales are to be announced, but so far it is tentatively happening over July and August.

Filter will be touring with Saliva, Anew Revolution and Heart-Set Self-Destruct.

Keep your eyes peeled on undertheskinofangels.com

And if there are this many actual Tour Dates looks like it will be a rockin summer!

I'll be catching Filter in New Jersey in 18 days and from the potential of this announcement, it might be a Filter year for me! And I'll be happy to end it on the ShipRocked cruise with them too!

Filter is Coming!!! And Richard Patrick hamming it up.

FILTER's Richard Patrick joins Schecter Family!

Richard Patrick has his own signature guitar series!

Richard Patrick is also showing off Blackstar Amps!

Here are my countdowns to when I will see Filter!

blog 1 year anniversary! Richard Patrick, Bono, Moby, REM, Beastie Boys, Chemical Brothers

It's my blog's 1 year anniversary! It's also Richard Patrick's birthday and Bono's birthday.

I originally started this blog mainly because RP asked me and some other fans to help promote his new Filter album, The Trouble with Angels, in the online world.

SO, in honor of Rich's birthday, I'd like to officially announce that I will be attending the Filter show in New Jersey in ONE MONTH! It will be my second time seeing Filter in concert and I'm pretty sure I'll finally get to meet him this time...I'm stoked, excited, nervous and giddy about it! officialfilter.com

AND...I'm also going to go on the Shiprocked cruise in November! 5 days on a ship in the Mexican Riviera with FILTER!!!!! And some other bands, but Filter is the only reason I'm going haha. I really don't think it's fully sinking in yet that I'm actually going... getshiprocked.com

Kudos to my awesome Filter Friends that I've made as well, some of whom will be going to the Jersey show with me and some of whom will be going on the cruise with me! Filter Fans Unite!

Happy Birthday Bono!


Richard Patrick singing one of Bono's songs hehe, along with Flyleaf. I love them too!


My fave song from RP's side project, Army of Anyone.


Plume! My fave song from the deluxe version of Filter's latest album, The Trouble with Angels. Go buy the album!


And here's some other random musicality from my world:

Moby is streaming his new album, destroyed, here: http://destroyed.moby.com/ Listen to it! I'm in love with it and want to marry it.

R.E.M. has their newest song and video here: discoverer

Beastie Boys new video is HILARIOUS! Check out all the celebrity cameos hehe: Make Some Noise

Chemical Brothers did an awesome score for the movie Hanna. The movie was odd but I've always liked Chemical Brothers and I loved it. Listen to samples and buy here: Hanna Soundtrack

That's all I have to share for now...Look, Listen, Love!

FILTER: Tour & Shiprocked! Stone Temple Pilots, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Idiomatics

Well, not a WHOLE lot of details yet, but here's to hoping for more announcements in the making. But for now, here are some confirmed Filter tour dates according to officialfilter.com

TOUR

Date     Venue                                                   Location

6/11      Stone Pony                                           Asbury Park, NJ

6/14      Glavclub                                    St. Petersburg, Russia

6/15      Arena                                                    Moscow, Russia

6/17      DOM                                                    Helsinki, Finland

6/18      Rabarock Festival                            Jarvakandi, Estonia

6/20      Batschkapp                                     Frankfurt, Germany

6/21      Szene                                                   Vienna, Austria

6/22      Abart                                               Zurich, Switzerland

6/23      LKA                                                 Stuttgart, Germany

6/24      Rites of Summer Festival             Saarbrucken, Germany

6/26      Essigfabrik                                           Cologne, Germany

6/27      Markthalle                                         Hamburg, Germany

6/28      Rosenhof                                          Osnabruck, Germany

11/14-11/19  Shiprocked Cruise                  Ft. Lauderdale/Mexico

ShipRocked is the ultimate rock and roll cruise vacation, with a backstage pass!

FILTER would like to extend a special invitation for you to join them on the high seas this November! ShipRocked is the ultimate rock and roll cruise vacation, with a backstage pass! This amazing floating music festival and fan experience will travel to the exotic Mayan Riviera, making stops in Costa Maya and Cozumel in Mexico. You and the band will be sailing onboard one of the cruise industry’s most acclaimed new luxury liners, the MSC Poesia, from Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, on November 14^th, and returning on November 19, 2011.

The lineup for ShipRocked 201 will feature over a dozen artists performing on multiple stages throughout the cruise. Alongside FILTER will be Buckcherry, Queensryche, Hinder, Hellyeah, Sevendust, Candlebox, Living Colour and In This Moment. And if that’s not enough to wet your rock and roll appetite, Lynam, Broken Teeth, Rival Sons and more will be joining you onboard!

In addition to mingling with rockstars, you’ll be treated like one with exlusive artist hosted events and activities. The Poesia will keep the food and beverages flowing long into the night so you can rock till you drop! And with multiple pools, Jacuzzis, a luxury spa and a state of the art gym onboard, you can stay refreshed and reenergized for the next round of rock and roll!

So, if you’re ready to join FILTER for this one of a kind musical adventure, visit www.GetShipRocked.com today! Tickets are on-sale now, and include access to all of the concerts and other exclusive activities, your deluxe stateroom, all your meals, ship activities, entertainment and much, much more! Book your cabin online at www.GetShipRocked.com anytime day or night, or you can contact a ShipRocked reservations agent by calling 1-888-438-9509. Get ShipRocked with FILTER and create rock and roll memories for a lifetime!

I got to catch Stone Temple Pilots in concert last night in Richmond kind of last minute. It was a great show at Innsbrook. A pretty but chilly night in a field surrounded by trees, stars in the sky, and rock music blaring into the universe. Here's a link to some great pics and then my bad quality videos haha.

Stone Temple Pilots Pics by 103.7 The River









I also volunteered this year to help out at the Celebrate Virginia Live concerts in Fredericksburg. I was a ticket taker at the first show of the season for Lynyrd Skynyrd. They had about 6500 people show up so I ripped and scanned A LOT of tickets haha. But it was fun and I got a snippet of "Free Bird" of course...as well as the fireworks afterwards. Please excuse my sideways view. I was still learning this new phone of mine...





Fredericksburg's own band The Idiomatics got the opportunity to perform at The National in Richmond. I got a rough vid of them too haha, followed by a good vid that was more professionally recorded. Oh and you can hear me giggle in the beginning of that one.





And here's another old Elephant Boy song to tide you over till my next blog...Look, listen, love!

"1186 pounds of twisted steel and sex appeal"