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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IWFM Radio Launch Party

09/03/202207/11/2017 by Andy Von Pip

IWFM Radio Launch Party 1.12.2017 So some readers will be painfully aware of my radio work over the years, which has been described as sounding like Ian McCulloch on ketamine fused with Ringo Starr trapped

VPME Recommends – October’s Spotify Playlist

01/11/2017 by Andy Von Pip

Here’s October’s Spotify Playlist including music we’re featured, or should have featured but didn’t due to a lack of time. Perhaps we’ve been too busy chasing Facebook likes in a desperate attempt to seek self-validation and fill the gaping

Sound City 2018 Announces new location

01/11/2017 by Andy Von Pip

So Liverpool Sound City returns to the City during the May Bank Holiday next year (5th and 6th May 2018) after a few years of enforced relocation, namely due to the increasing ‘gentrification’ of the

New Tracks – PARADISE – YELLOW EP

30/10/2017 by Andy Von Pip

PARADISE – YELLOW EP Paradise are something of a mini underground super group. Formed in a bar in Oslo when Marianne Faithfull and Longview’s guitarist Rob McVey and Madrugada’s vocalist Sivert Høyem bonded over a

New Track – Dream Wife – Let’s Make Out

26/10/201726/10/2017 by Andy Von Pip

Dream Wife Lets Make Out What was Punk? Is it even relevant as a musical touchstone/ point of reference anymore? I guess for us it was more a belief system than a snarling three-chord thrash or fashion

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New Tracks – Chløë Black – Waterbed

25/10/201725/10/2017 by Andy Von Pip

Chløë Black Waterbed. The last time we featured Chløë Black we asked her ‘why on earth aren’t you HUGE?’ to which she responded “well I’m not gonna lie, I have been eating a hell of

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New Tracks : Ali Horn – Bloom

25/10/2017 by Andy Von Pip

Ali Horn – Bloom Now here’s a thing, we actually thought we’d written about this having picked it as our favourite for Tom Robinson’s Fresh On The Net a few weeks back. But it turns

Words And Pictures – Dream Wife -Sløtface – Peaness – Liverpool Magnet 19.10.17

17/10/201717/10/2017 by Andy Von Pip

After winning hearts minds and ears over the festival season Dream Wife returned to Liverpool and proved once again that the excitement and buzz they are generating is very much the real deal. ‘Thanks to

Track Of The Day – Marmozets – Habits

16/10/2017 by Andy Von Pip

Bingley’s Marmozets are undoubtedly one of the most interesting and inventive artists amongst the current crop of bands whose music errs on the heavier side. It’s been quite a while since we’ve caught them live,

NEW : Liverpool Music Week 2017 – Final Line Up

11/10/2017 by Andy Von Pip

LIVERPOOL MUSIC WEEK 2017 Announce Huge List of Additional Names For Final Line Up Supports revealed for festival’s 15th anniversary year including: STEALING SHEEP / GOD COLONY / SHE DREW THE GUN / HER’S / PINK

Track Of The Day – Miss World – Click And Yr Mine

11/10/201710/10/2017 by Andy Von Pip

Miss World – Click And Yr Mine Well, well, well, Miss World appears to have had more “tracks of the day” on this site in the last few weeks than any other artist. In fact, she

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Track Of The Day – Kristin Kontrol – “Concrete Love”

05/10/2017 by Andy Von Pip

Kristin Kontrol – “Concrete Love” Kirstin Kontrol is the synth-pop alter ego of Kristin Gundred, also the artist formerly known as Dee Dee from Dum Dum Girls. Her new single ‘Concrete Love ‘ snuck out