Track Of The Day – Wet Mouth – White Light.
Ok it’s new favourite band alert time !!! Wet Mouth- White Light Yes, yes we know music bloggers can often come across as shallow capricious creatures, existing in a musical bubble filled with the oxygen
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INTERVIEW – Swiss Lips : They Got The Power
Swiss Lips describe themselves as “Pop sorcerers, going straight to hell” we’d rather not speculate as to exactly what they may have been getting up to warrant eternal damnation, but we’d imagine it may well
Catherine AD – Reprise.
Catherine AD Reprise: The Covers Collection Released: June 25th 2012 “Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful… genius in fact!” – ROB DA BANK “Like an Anglo-Celtic Tori Amos discovering the joys of Michael Nyman…A mini album that’s really
Friends, Wet Mouth: Live- The Kazimier, Liverpool 8/06/2012
In December we contacted a number of music bloggers to see if they were interested in compiling an alternative list to the BBC’s “Sound Of” predictions. The votes came in thick and fast with Brooklyn
Dot To Dot Festival Manchester – 4 June 2012.
Just over a year ago we left Glastonbury broken, exhausted and covered in rank, sickly sweet smelling mud. We’d also had our drink spiked during Pulp’s big moment and as a direct consequence we proceeded
Track Of The Day – Big Wave – Circumstance.
“Circumstance” is the lead track from Torquay quintet Big Wave’s second EP ” The Roots of Love (Come Tumbling Down)“which is released on June 11th via Soft Power Records. It’s a rather delightful slice of
Track Of The Day – Friday Freebie – Pati Yang – Wires & Sparks (Jagz Kooner Remix)
Here’s this weeks Friday Freebie, a rather splendid Jagz Kooner remix of Pati Yang’s rather splendid “Wires & Sparks.” Pati is one of Poland’s most acclaimed electronic artists who released a critically lauded album at
Track Of The Day – Foxes- “In Her Arms”
In case you didn’t know Foxes isn’t a band but the name Southampton born Louisa Rose Allen has adopted for her musical musings. We featured her as our Track Of The Day back in April
Strangeways Here We Come – The VPME Joins Strangeways Radio!
Exciting news from Von Pip Towers, we will be hosting a weekly show on Strangeways Radio very soon. Strangeways is a commercial free internet radio station and blog celebrating under-appreciated music in the genres of
The Future Of The Left – Jennifer Left Interview.
We initially discovered Jennifer Left early in 2011 when we stumbled across her sublime cover of the New Order classic “Temptation.” Her stripped back acoustic, bossa nova version really seemed to get to the heart
Two Wounded Birds Album Review.
Some may have painted Two Wounded Birds into a corner as rock n roll revivalists, Ramones wannabes or even the UK’s answers to The Drums, and whilst there are germs of truth in such views,
Track Of The Day (2) – Candice Gordon – Smoking Like The Barrel Of A Gun
Karen O and PJ Harvey are obvious points of reference on this bluesy stomper of a track from Candice Gordon. She purrs,she snarls, she shrieks and kicks up a mighty storm whilst seeming to exude