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.

Liverpool Sound City – Day 4 -Photo Gallery – The Kooks, She Drew The Gun , The Sherlocks and more

11/02/202031/05/2017 by Andy Von Pip

Day 4 at Sound City and arguably the best one in terms of festival vibes. Mike Sheerin, Tom Adam, Andy Von Pip, Graham Smillie, Mark Holmes and Ernie ‘Phil’ Greenhalgh were on hand again to

Sound City Day 3 – Photo Gallery – The Kills, Slaves, Peaches, Carl Barat and more

30/05/201730/05/2017 by Andy Von Pip

The VPME photo team were on duty at for Day 3 of Sound City and here are our visual highlights Photography by Phil Greenhalgh, Graham Smillie, Mark Holmes, John King, Mike Sheerin, Tom Adam and Andy

Sound City Day 2 Conference – John Cale – Velvet Underground and Nico 50th anniversary

27/05/2017 by Andy Von Pip

Sound City – Day -2 – Photo Gallery Day 2 kicked off with the conference at Camp and Furnace with Don Letts and Peaches in conversation with Dave Haslam were the stars of the show. Then

Sound City 2017 – Day One – Photo Gallery – The Human League, The Art Of Noise, A Certain Ratio

26/05/201726/05/2017 by Andy Von Pip

Liverpool Sound City kicked off last night with sets from A Certain Ratio, The Art Of Noise and The Human League. Graham Smilie, Phil Greenhalgh and Andy Von Pip were on hand to capture the action!

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Liverpool Sound City Preview 2017 – Under The Radar Artists To Catch

25/05/2017 by Andy Von Pip

Whilst Manchester and Liverpool have always been rivals the cliche “there has always been more that unites us than divides” has never rang truer. Indeed Liverpool Sound City was actually started by accident after founder

Liverpool Sound City Previews – A Certain Ratio Interview

19/05/2017 by Andy Von Pip

Whilst A Certain Ratio are often referred to as one of the most influential bands to come from Manchester there’d be many a music fan who’d be hard pressed to name more than a couple

Soccer Mommy – Out Worn

09/03/202217/05/2017 by Andy Von Pip

Soccer Mommy is the project of nineteen-year-old Nashville native and NYU student Sophie Allison who had previously came to prominence by releasing her music, which she described as “chill but kinda sad bedroom-pop jams” for

Track Of The Day – Team Picture

16/05/2017 by Andy Von Pip

One of our tips for 2017 Team Picture return with another swirling slice of menace in the shape of their new track ‘ Air, Not Air.’ We’ve already previously described this Leeds-based collective as being

Fest Evol 2017 In Pictures

15/05/2017 by Andy Von Pip

You can read my FEST EVOL 2017 review in the Skinny HERE. Photos of the highlights below

Track Of The Day – Zipper Club – Breath

15/05/201712/05/2017 by Andy Von Pip

Zipper Club are the new musical project of Mason James (ex- Cerebral Ballzy) and Washington via NYC via L.A. based artist Lissie Trullie ( who we tipped back in 2010). Their latest single ‘Breath’, released

Track Of The Day – Juanita Stein – Dark Horse

08/05/2017 by Andy Von Pip

Howling Bells have been and remain one of our favourite bands to emerge during all our years of blogging. They really should be a band of stadia-straddling hugeness. So with that in mind, it’s no

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Songs To Learn And Sing – Sløtface, HMLTD

07/03/202205/05/2017 by Andy Von Pip

Songs To Learn and Sing Sløtface – ‘Magazine’ Norwegian grunge-punks Sløtface latest offering ‘Magazine’ arrives ahead of their debut album ‘Try Not To Freak Out’. It’s a spiky melodic affair in which the band tackle