Pips Tips – THE VPME Tips For 2015.
So it’s time for our annual tip list, or as we prefer to call it – “bands we’d like to see do well in 2015” which we’ll concede isn’t quite as snappy as ‘Pips tips’
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Video Of The Week The Courtesans – ‘The Power Of Love’
We are almost at the cut off point now, whereby we refuse to listen to any music that doesn’t have a vague seasonal theme. And so to slowly ease you into the festive season here’s
Track Of The Day – Young Summer – ‘Severing Ties’
We first stumbled across Young Summer when she uploaded a rather mournful stripped back piano led version of the Human League’s electro pop classic ‘Don’t You Want Me’. Since then she’s released a well received debut
Track Of The Day – Acre Tarn – ‘In The Bleak Midwinter’
There’s a common misconception that Christmas music is by definition redolent of cheese, horribly and relentlessly upbeat, but the truth is some of the best Christmas songs and carols are bittersweet, bleakly beautiful elegiac hymns
Track Of The Day – Dum Dum Girls – ‘On Christmas’
As we mentioned yesterday, we will yield to nobody in our view that a well judged carefully crafted Christmas tune, or indeed cover version can be a wonderful thing. And as if by magic Dum
Songs To Learn And Sing – The Aquadolls ,Mozes And The Firstborn, Sara Lowes, The Courtesans, Nadine Shah
The Aquadolls – ‘So High’ ‘So High’ is from California’s The Aquadolls debut album ‘Stoked On You’ which has just been released via Burger Records. It’s a beautifully evocative slice of dreamy reflective surf pop
Tracks Of The Day – Brown Brogues – ‘Medication’ and Skeptics – ‘TV Wizard’
Listening to some of the tips for 2015, our response in the main has been been one of ‘what a load of crystal balls’. There seems to be a worrying lack of twisted spontaneous guitar
The VPME Podcast – December 2014
After a little podcasting break we return with the December edition of The VPME podcast. As ever, it features some old favourites and selection of brand new tracks we’ve probably featured on the site of
Liverpool Sound City 2015 Announce Flaming Lips As Saturday Headliner
More exciting news from Liverpool Sound City following the news of a major relocation to a new dockland location and the unveiling of Belle & Sebastian as its first headliner, they now announce another major headliner
The Blog Sound Of 2015 – Long List
So it’s that time of year when the bloggers get together and pick out the bands or artists they hope will do well in 2015. And we moan. It’s a tradition. I guess the problem
Track Of The Day – EMA – ‘3Jane’
Our favourite track from one of our favourite albums of 2014 is given the big screen treatment, and as you might expect it explores many of the themes featured within the song. EMA of course isn’t
Track Of The Day – St.Tropez – ‘I Don’t Wanna Fall In Love’
One of our shortest ever posts, which you may or may not find to be a blessing ;). This is due in no small part to the fact we know practically bugger all about St.Tropez