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Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Letter to Rolling Stone for Filter Cover Petition

Rolling Stone, how can you say no to THIS?! If I've got nothing else, I at least have passion and the nerve to pursue! You can't stop me! And YOU can participate too!

Hey everyone, I just emailed this to Rolling Stone. Our event page expires tomorrow and I wish we'd gotten more people but we gave it 4 months so I think it's time to bite the bullet! It would be great if you'd also send even just a short note to them too in support of the band! The email address is editors@rollingstone.com

Dear Editors of Rolling Stone,

Back in August a small coalition of Filter Fans organized a petition on facebook for fans to "sign" or "attend" in support of getting Filter on the cover of your magazine. You can also read the comments on the page. You can see the event page here:

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=151205101558268

I myself am a loyal fan of the band and in today's struggling music industry, I feel we have to work harder and harder to get our favorite bands noticed. Most people only know Filter for their hits, "Hey Man, Nice Shot" and "Take A Picture." It would be nice to get a decent feature article on them about their latest album, "The Trouble with Angels" and touring, or especially an interview with Richard Patrick.

The formation and history of Filter is interesting, stemming from Nine Inch Nails to going platinum as Filter. Richard Patrick’s progressing personal story of battling alcoholism to his family life now, is also a major human interest story. They have performed for the troops in the Middle East and Filter puts on one of the most raw, impressive rock concerts in rock history. You can ask anyone who has seen them live and I assure you the feedback will be positive.

We got 325 people to support our petition but here are other fan stats for Filter:
51,340 facebook fans
51,939 myspace friends
1,795 followers on twitter

That all adds up to potentially 105,399 readers who will purchase an issue of Rolling Stone with Filter on the cover.

I’m familiar with media. I’m going on 10 years working in the advertising department of a local newspaper, The Free Lance-Star in Fredericksburg, Virginia. We have about 50,000 daily circulation. So I understand the value of readership and single copy sales. How can you turn down such an opportunity in today’s market? The music business has been struggling as well as the journalism business. I am very passionate about music journalism in general and I get tired of mainstream features on artists that stemmed from the likes of American Idol. Let’s put an awesome band on that cover!

Here are links for references:
http://www.officialfilter.com/
http://www.facebook.com/Filter
http://www.myspace.com/filter
https://twitter.com/officialfilter

Thank you for your time and consideration.

Sincerely,

Kristen Hatch

Sunday, December 12, 2010

FILTER: "No Love" breaks 100,000 views, upcoming Lopez Tonight appearance, etc.

This week Filter's No Love video broke 100,000 views on youtube! They're headed to Germany for a festival next weekend and scheduled to perform on Lopez Tonight on TBS Dec. 23rd! Be sure to catch it! I know I'm very excited about seeing them on TV again for the first time in years! And rumor has it that there will be some more tour dates coming up in January and February...no formal announcements yet as to where they will be but I'M hopeful. A Filter show is MY Christmas wish!

Enjoy some links and vids! Look, listen and love!

Crusher Magazine Interview

Info about Germany show Dec. 18

May the Rock Be With You Interview

Richard Patrick with Camp Freddy

Oregon Music News article

Sacramento Press concert review

Take A Picture live

Sacramento Press Q&A

Ecce Video concert review

Filter's Favorite Tour Songs Station

Noisecreep No Love article

Cubby Bear concert review

Spin It Loud interview

Hightower and Jones concert review

Caught in the Carousel album review

NIN Live: 1989-1991 from Nine Inch Nails on Vimeo.

http://vimeo.com/17042945 from Nine Inch Nails on Vimeo.

Monday, December 6, 2010

Reject

REJECT

Motivation, ambition, where are you?

I lost you somewhere along the way

Rejection, submission, become familiar

I know you are here to stay

Rejection is my middle name

Loneliness is an old friend

Tired of this same old game

Bitter ties on this loose end

Starting projects I can’t finish

Inspiration seems to diminish

Fighting with myself again

The fight I never seem to win

Rejection is my middle name

Loneliness is an old friend

Tired of this same old game

Bitter ties on this loose end

Climbing, struggling to be set free

This wasn’t how it was meant to be

Longing, yearning to get it right

Being shot down with all my might

Rejection is my middle name

Loneliness is an old friend

Tired of this same old game

Bitter ties on this loose end

MY mewzak...ME, moi

I've never really promoted myself, but I finally figured out how to get my only 3 recorded songs onto youtube. I put them on myspace a few years ago and later made a facebook page. I'll put links to those on here. I've just recently been trying to get myself back out there a bit. I managed to get back onstage at open mic night about a month ago for the first time in years. I've got a handful of other original songs that I'd like to get on the internet eventually. I attempted recording with my webcam but it didn't work well, the sound was very delayed for some reason. So for now I can't record anything else to share, but maybe at some point I'll get some kind of music software or something so I can actually do a little something on my own. So as usual, look, listen and love!

Mewzak on myspace

Mewzak on facebook

Saturday, November 6, 2010

Filter Family, Call to DC/VA Filter Fans, NO LOVE Video/Tour, and more...

Photo by Jason Tatty Tatman

I've fallen a bit behind with my Filter updates, so this blog will be chock full!

First off, I want to give a shout out to my Filter Family! It's been about a year now since Filter started teasing us with youtube clips for the new album, and over that year I've become facebook friends with not only Richard Patrick himself, but also quite a network of fellow Filter fans! I feel like I've connected with some very interesting, great people through one of my favorite bands. The No Love Tour that's going on now, is awesome proof of the connection between us all! I've seen personal pics and videos from fans at the concerts as they go from state to state and I think it's really cool that we're able to kind of follow the tour through the eyes of each other.

I have to give a special shout out to Jason "Tatty" because he's one of the most hardcore Filter fans I've chatted with, and he has had the amazing opportunity to follow the guys for several shows. His daily updates are more entertaining to me than any stupid reality TV shows!

I love all my Filter Friends and I wish we could all meet each other at one massive Filter concert and rock out! But on that note, I do want to make a Call to Arms, so to speak, for any of my Filter Fans in the DC/VA area. So far Filter has not toured the east coast since the first time I got to see them in 2008. I want them back! And I know some of you do too! We need to promote them and back our boys as best as we can to get them here! It's all about promo! We all know how free downloading and mainstream music robs the real talent nowadays, so we've got to support our band! The best way we can do that right now is to request the new songs on the radio. You can also share stuff on social networks like me! Keep posting videos and interviews and everything all over facebook, myspace and twitter, etc.

Here is contact info for 3 local alternative radio stations. There's DC and two in Richmond. I figure it can't hurt to push it in Richmond too since it's close. If you know of any others please share them with me or in a comment on this blog. Request the new single, "No Love" and the first single, "The Inevitable Relapse," and mention to the stations that we have a gang of local Filter Fans who want them to tour here! I'll also list a few venues if you want to try putting a bug in their ears as well.

http://www.dc101.com/pages/contactus.html

http://www.1021thex.com/pages/contact.html

http://1037river.com/inside/playlists.html

http://www.930.com/

http://www.blackcatdc.com/

http://www.alleykatzrva.com/contact.asp

http://www.thenorva.com/contact.html

More NO LOVE Tour Dates:

11/4/10 The Machine Shop Detroit, MI

11/5/10 The Intersection Grand Rapids, MI

11/6/10 The Cubby Bear Chicago, IL

11/9/10 People's Court Des Moines, IA

11/11/10 The Venue Fargo, ND

11/12/10 Station 4 St. Paul, MN

11/14/10 The Summit Music Hall Denver

11/16/10 Vertigo Salt Lake City

11/19/10 The Alley Reno

11/20/10 Berbati's Pan Portland

11/22/10 Harlows Sacramento

11/23/10 Starline Fresno

See officialfilter.com for tour info and the store for a tour edition tshirt! Be sure to hang out after the show because the guys have been hanging around to meet the fans and do autographs!

"No Love" Video featuring Carmen Electra!