Filter magazine to fold, with ex-business partners each launching his own new music content platform
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Filter, the music magazine, marketing/promotions company and promoter of the annual Culture Collide festival in Echo Park, will fold by summer’s end, the result of a split between business partners Alan Sartirana and Alan Miller.
Sartirana and Miller each have launched new platforms.
Miller will do business under the name Culture Collide, whose website recently launched and announced October dates for Culture Collide festivals in L.A. (Oct. 16-18). San Francisco and New York.
Sartirana this week announced the launch of Anthemic Magazine, planned for September. The publication’s Facebook and Tumblr sites have already begun.
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