TRACK OF THE DAY – WOLF ALICE – ‘Bros’ (Definitive version)
Well this is a first! The first time in fact that we’ve made a song our track of the day – twice! However, it is Wolf Alice who have a special place in our hearts
Andy Von Pip
TRACK OF THE DAY – COVES – ‘No Looking Back’
Spectrum EP by Coves What happens when you write one of your finest songs to date? (ie/ ‘No Looking Back’) Do you A/ Release it physically so its magnificence can be held in a tangible
TRACK OF THE DAY – WHITE REAPER – Make Me Wanna Die
Strange perhaps that a track called ‘Make Me Wanna Die’ has quite the opposite effect. White Reaper prove there’s plenty of life left in incendiary fuzzed up garage rock n roll and although this tune
TRACK OF THE DAY (2) – TESS PARKS AND ANTON NEWCOMBE – ‘Cocaine Cat’
‘Cocaine Cat’ is a slinky arresting exercise in narcotic seduction and doomed grandeur. It’s a collaboration between Canadian chanteuse Tess Parks and Brian Jonestown Massacre legend Anton Newcombe and it’s rather f*cking wonderful. A demo
TRACK OF THE DAY – STEALING SHEEP – ‘Greed’
‘Greed’ could hardly be called ‘one of the outstanding moments’ from Stealing Sheep‘s second studio album Not Real because practically every track on the album could be afforded that particular honour [thereby making the description itself in
TRACK OF THE DAY – GIRLS NAMES – ‘Zero Triptych’
“Burn the past. Reset the clocks. A symphony in three parts.” Belfast’s Girls Names return with the quite remarkable eleven minute epic ‘Zero Triptych’ which they say was inspired by the German artists’ group ‘Zero’
TRACK OF THE DAY – AUTOBAHN – Beautiful Place To Die
Autobahn’s fabulous new offering ‘Beautiful Place To Die’ conjures up a dark atmosphere of glittering beautiful desolation. Singer Craig Johnson’s brooding, commanding, impassioned vocals allied to urgent guitars and pounding percussion reveal that beneath the
TRACK OF THE DAY – DU BLONDE- Mind Is On My Mind
Beth Jeans Houghton’s reemergence as Du Blonde is every bit as engaging and idiosyncratic as you might expect from an artist whose sense of adventure and willingness to take risks seems boundless. Indeed the fact that
TRACK OF THE DAY – Black Honey – ‘Spinning Wheel’
We’ve been waiting for this one for a while to be honest, our excitement heightened after catching Black Honey live a couple of times earlier in the year. ‘Spinning Wheel’ was the bands set opener
Sound City Announces Full Line-Up
Sound City Announces Full Line-Up UK’s biggest city festival reveals line-up additions including The Membranes, Gengahr, The Mispers, Findlay and Lonelady. Sound City is proud to announce its biggest bill to date with the additions
TRACK OF THE DAY – LANDSHAPES – ‘Ader’
Back in 2009, we interviewed young aspiring musician Luisa Gerstein, we discussed her band Lulu And The Lampshades and ruminated on the moral implications of fusing music with soft furnishings (HERE). Over the years, the
INTERVIEW – VPME MEETS SAINT AGNES
Live Under London EP by Saint Agnes A couple of weeks ago we caught up with Saint Agnes backstage at the Cosmosis Festival of Psychedelia in Manchester, where they’d just finished a thunderous set under