For the fourth and final day of Culture Collide we were treated to the spectacular Block Party, with stages, food trucks and the expansive crowd creating a vibrant scene at Los Angeles’ Reservoir Street in Echo Park. Arriving in the afternoon to find Los Angeles’ locals soaking up both the quality live music on offer, as well as the Californian sunshine, I knew I was in for a great final night of Culture Collide.

Filter Magazine is proud to announce the full line up for this year's Culture Collide Festival, a festival which is boasting a fine selection of international talent! The Culture Collide Festival is taking place in Los Angeles this October and features the likes of...

of Montreal (US)
The Wombats (UK)
The Big Pink (UK)

I’ve got a confession to make. Upon being given the nod to review of Montreal’s newest offering, Paralytic Stalks, I went against my self appointed writer’s guidelines and read other reviewer’s reviews. What a fool, I hadn’t even listened to the album yet and there I was thinking that I would be able to get some sort of advantage out of allowing myself to be influenced by other people’s thoughts. How wrong I was. Most of what I read was negative, so I went in to my first listen with the expectation that I would be disappointed with Paralytic Stalks, but disappointed I was not.

FILTER Magazine have partially announced the lineup for their third Culture Collide festival, featuring of Montreal, School of Seven Bells, Tribes, and more!

Welcome to our new weekly news feature where we round up the latest news in the world of album release dates. We'll be pounding through dozens of news pieces from the last few weeks, so let's get moving! Unless otherwise mentioned, all release dates apply to Australia only.

In This Issue: Of Montreal, Sleigh Bells, Ladyhawke, Dirty Three, The Decemberists, Andrew Bird, Paul McCartney, Silverstein, Black Dice, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Emelie Sandé, Chimes Of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan (Honouring 50 Years of Amnesty International), Peter Broderick, The Blank Fight, Lana Del Ray and more...

Despite possessing some of Of Montreal’s most accessible material to date, False Priest, the tenth full-length offering from quirky auteur Kevin Barnes, isn’t uninspired nor is it predictable.