The VPME PODCAST – FEBRUARY 2014
It’s the first VPME podcast of 2014 – featuring the hottest new tracks and the year so far, alongside some undisputed 24 carat classics – Brand new music from the likes of I Break Horses,
Year: 2014
Valentine’s Track Of The Day – Lovestarrs – Stupid Cupid.
Just a quickie for Valentine’s Day – and that’s if we’re lucky. A free special VD download from Lovestarrs, who are proving to be the most 80’s sounding band of the year, thus far. The
Songs To Learn And Sing – The Notwist, Towns, LVLS, Wonder Villains, The Courtneys, Halsey.
The Notwist – Kong With the UK currently set to be twinned with Atlantis, you might consider the video for German electro indie pioneers The Notwist’s latest single ‘Kong’ somewhat apposite. Directed by Japanese film-maker
Track(s) Of The Day – A*Star – On The Edge Of Lost/ Catch The Moon
A* Star combine dreamy vocals, whip smart lyrics and shoegazey guitars, to create a soundscape full of haunting beauty, sounding on occasion not unlike a blissed out Shirley Manson whilst retaining a vague undercurrent of
Post War Glamour Girls – ‘Pink Fur’ Album Review
The fact that the London-centric music media has sacrificed objectivity for ad revenue and gleefully lap up the lukewarm diarrhoea served up by the music industry has sadly caused some people to completely give up
Track Of The Day – Woman’s Hour – ‘Her Ghost’
Our last musical purchase of 2013 was to bag ourselves all of Woman’s Hours previous releases, which duly arrived just before Xmas Eve, all signed, replete with a rather swanky tote bag to boot. Their
Track (s) Of The Day – Tess Parks – Somedays (& Anton Newcombe duet)
Tess Parks is a Toronto born musician and photographer whose début album ‘Blood Hot’ was released in November 2013 (which we somehow missed at the time, possibly due to our pre – Xmas over excitability
Track Of The Day – Pisces – ‘Winter Horse’
Photo By Zoe-Ruth Erwin Beautiful, talented mystical but really, that’s quite enough about us! Today’s track of the day arrives via the fabulous Sarah Negahdari; a person who it seems is positively brimming with ideas
Track Of The Day (2) – Cash+David – ‘Funn’
Cash+David may have a collective name that sounds like a backstreet Welsh pawnbroker, but there’s nothing crass or opportunistic about their music. Their début single ‘Funn’ features mellifluous airy vocals floating over huge slabs of
Track Of The Day (1) – Lovestarrs – ‘Get Your Sexy On’
When your record label decides to keep your début album under lock and key, drops you and forbids you to use your original band name whilst also not allowing you to release said album independently
Track Of The Day – Feathers – ‘Wild Love’
Despite Feathers having just completed an epic stadium tour with legendary electro-noir pioneers Depeche Mode and playing to around 150,000 plus people they still remain something of an underground act here in the UK. They
Track Of The Day – Etches – ‘The Charm Offensive’
And lo, after garnering praise for ‘Let’s Move In’ Liverpool based band Etches then chipped in with a cover of Marvin Gaye’s classic ‘I Heard It Through The Grapevine.’ Risky, but it was an interesting