Andy Von Pip

ANDY VON PIP - Founder, editor, writer, reviewer, photographer and all-round good guy at the VPME.com.House photographer for The Academy Music Group, Zuma Press, Event Magazine and Rex Features worldwide. You can check out his photography atAndy Von Pip PhotographyCurrently writing for U.S. Magazine and website Under The Radar.Andy been new music tipster on BBC6 Music, Amazing Radio, and DJ on Strangeways Radio (USA.) Regular podcasts can be found on Mixcloud and Spotify.He's also been a moderator for BBC 6 Music DJ Tom Robinson's Fresh on the Net, and a former member of "BBC's Sound Of" panel. Written and photographic work has been published worldwide wide and appeared in the likes of The Guardian, The Times, The Quietus, Music Week, Record Of The Day, GIITV, The Sabotage Times, The Skinny, Louder Than War.

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Track Of The Day – Jupiter – C – ‘Birdsong’

16/04/201315/04/2013 by Andy Von Pip

After a weekend of near apoplectic rage over a certain somebody getting an alleged 10 million pound state funded send off ( so the state ain’t all bad after all eh?) we needed to chill

Track Of The Day – Wolf Alice – ‘Bros’

11/04/2013 by Andy Von Pip

We are as short on time today as David Cameron is on integrity, but we’ve always got time for Wolf Alice. One of our tips for 2013, Wolf Alice go from strength to strength and

Track Of The Day – Big Deal – ‘In Your Car’

10/04/2013 by Andy Von Pip

Truth is the first time we heard Big Deal (Alice Costelloe & Kacey Underwood) was via The Guardian’s New Band Of the Day with a track called ‘Homework.’ And we rather liked them, but what

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Track Of The Day – Video Première – September Girls – ‘Talking.’

08/04/201308/04/2013 by Andy Von Pip

Here’s a video exclusive to brighten your Monday morning. It’s from Dublin based all female noise pop quintet September Girls, and heralds the bands new 7” single ‘Talking‘ released by the Cork based label Art

Songs To Learn And Sing – Mount Fabric, Findlay, Jonny Cola & The A Grades, Little Sparrow

05/04/2013 by Andy Von Pip

Mount Fabric Heuristic Fits, the new single from Mount Fabric is released on 15th April via Crystalline Record. Apparently it’s “a song about the failings of the human brain as it tries to comprehend the

Track Of The Day(2) – Natalie McCool – Black Sun

04/04/2013 by Andy Von Pip

If we assume that McCool genuinely is Natalie’s surname, then really, what choice did she have but to become a musician? McCool the Traffic Warden isn’t really a great fit outside of Ballamory is it?

Track Of The Day – Skeleton Suite – ‘Wounded’

04/04/2013 by Andy Von Pip

Photo © Marga Moner So Skeleton Suite what’s the deal? What interesting back-story can we furnish you with about today’s rather wonderful tune? Well not a lot actually, because there really is a poverty of

Public Service Broadcasting – ‘Inform Educate Entertain’ Review-Interview

01/04/2013 by Andy Von Pip

Public Service Broadcasting’s bold manifesto is to ‘teach the lessons of the past through the music of the future.’ The London based experimental musical duo consisting of J.Willgoose Esq. and Wrigglesworth II take samples from

Gig Pictures Of The Month – February/ March 2013

29/03/2013 by Andy Von Pip

Dark Horses By Andy Von Pip @The Night And Day Cafe, 23/03/2012 Manchester. [nggallery id=5] Linda Ortega By Shay Rowan @ The Soup Kitchen, Manchester (04/03/13) [nggallery id=4] Nicole Atkins By Andy Von Pip

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Track Of The Day – Wax Idols – ‘Sound of a Void’

29/03/2013 by Andy Von Pip

Wax Idols are a band we’ve flirted with over the last few years but with the release of their second album,’Discipline and Desire’ we feel the time has come to fully consummate our relationship. Like

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Track Of The Day – The Good Natured – ‘Lovers’

02/03/202228/03/2013 by Andy Von Pip

Well it’s been a long time coming but finally VPME fave’s The Good Natured’s début album is set to drop. It’s called ‘Prisim’ and is apparently “based around the idea of the prism being my

Track Of The Day (2) – Curxes – ‘Further Still’

02/03/202226/03/2013 by Andy Von Pip

UK electronic duo Curxes return with a brand new and rather fabulous song available as a free download entitled ‘Further Still.’ We’ve previously described their haunting, cybertronic blitzkrieg electro-sextro-pop as something that resembles M.R. James