Tošo Filipovski was born on May 9, 1969, in Kočani. He is married to Biljana and the father of Petar and Sofija. Even during his high school days in Kočani, in 1986, he founded the Macedonian pioneering hardcore band “Die Himmelstrasse”. After returning from the army and moving to Skopje for his studies, he began his musical activism focused on the development of the Macedonian, primarily underground, scene. At the turn of 1989 to 1990, he published the first Macedonian music fanzine, “Teškoto”, and at the beginning of the new decade, he started contributing occasional articles to “Studentski Zbor”, “Mlad Borec”, “Trotuar”, “Metro”, and “Joint”. From 1996 to 1997, he was the editor-in-chief of the music magazine “Grad”. From 1992 to 2001, he organized five editions of the “Underground Festival”, the only such international festival in Macedonia during that period. Until 2009, he promoted numerous concerts of domestic and foreign punk and hardcore bands.
Starting in 1990, he also began his media, primarily radio engagement, with several specialized programs for Macedonian music, first on the Youth Radio “Club 100”, then on the Student Radio, and longest on “Kanal 103”, with a short engagement on “Radio Ravel”. From 1994 to 1997, he was the author of the cult music program “Dosie” on TV Sitel, which had 77 episodes. From spring 1997 to autumn 1998, on TV Telma, with a similar concept of popularizing and affirming the Macedonian rock scene, he was the author of the program “Za Makedonskata Muzika”. From 1994 to 2011, his record label “Corpus Delicti Records” released about ten cassettes and CDs of Macedonian bands. In 2019, he began releasing vinyl records, compilations, and solo albums of Macedonian bands.
During his engagement (1998 – 2005) at the Center for Performing Arts “Multimedia”, he initiated the one-day street project, a protest in motion named “Preku Takvoto”, held on October 1, 2001, which represents one of the first organized outbursts of pacifist civil activism on the Macedonian rock scene. In 2002, as part of the joint team of CIU “Multimedia” and “Lithium Records”, he organized the first open-air music festival in Macedonia, “Alarm”. After a year, he worked briefly at “Lithium Records” as a promoter of music events organized by the record label. In the first decade of the new millennium, he also worked as the manager of “King Naat Veliov & Original Kočani Orkestar”.
For 40 years, he has been an active and passionate collector of music artifacts, releases, and information about the Macedonian rock scene. For the past 15 years, he has been working actively to create conditions for opening a rock museum, namely a “Center for Research, Archiving, Digitizing, and Promoting Macedonian Rock Music”. In May 2018, he published the monumental work for Macedonian culture, “Macedonian Rock Encyclopedia 1963 – 2018, Volume One”, and 14 months later (July 2019), another similarly large, equally monumental work – the monograph “Macedonian Discography – Vinyls (1958 – 2019), Volume One”. At the end of December 2020, “Corpus Delicti Records” published another monograph, “Macedonian Rock Time Travel, Volume One”. In March 2022, he also released the first monograph dedicated to a Macedonian rock band, Mizar – Revelations 1981-2021. On November 21, 2024, he will release the biography of the Macedonian musician Goran Trajkoski – GOTRA.
In 2021, he was awarded the highest state award for journalism, “Mito Hađi Vasiljev-Jasmin”.
In 2024, he received the most prestigious award from the City of Skopje in the field of culture, the “13 November” award.
He is a chronicler of the times.