Reviews of music releases, live shows, and more from the VPME
Dutch Uncles have always been a perplexing musical proposition and if we’re being completely honest, we’ve often found their redoubtable musical charms rather easy to resist in the past. We didn’t dislike them, it was
Wolff’s law is apparently a theory by Julius Wolff a German anatomist, which states that the bone in a healthy person or animal will adapt to the varying loads under which it is placed. It
London based quartet The Cellophane Flowers début album ‘Staring at the World’ could arguably have been released at any point during the last twenty years. It’s an enthralling mix of female fronted, occasionally quirky, indie
PINS appearance in Liverpool last week heralded the start of their first headline tour in support of their superb new ‘LuvU4Lyf ‘ EP. The venue itself, the quirkily named, nautically themed ‘Shipping Forecast’ is pretty
Fact 1 – There are an inordinate amount of female singer songwriters armed with a guitar bursting with musical tales to tell. This is a good thing. Fact 2 – Sadly not all of these
Dum Dum Girls return with a superlative new EP, “End of Daze” which contains a collection of songs that any right thinking society would quite correctly revere as bona fide pop classics. Once again, Dum
Hailing from Copenhagen, the three-piece surf rock trio THE GOOD THE BAD are about to unleash their third album “From 034 to 050”. Earning their stripes supporting the likes of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and
Are Savages the most exciting new band in the UK? Well on the evidence of their performance at Liverpool’s Leaf Tea Shop one would have to say they are certainly there or thereabouts. This really
There are some things that remain constant in life, for example the English summer weather never fails to disappoint, Gary Barlow remains the blandest, most anodyne songwriter of his generation, David Cameron’s face remains eminently
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Ok so we were invited by BBC6music to pick three artists who had impressed us the most so far this year. Of course this was extremely tricky and so to narrow it down in our
Words: David Cross-Kane London indie-pop quintet Exlovers first burst on the scene back in 2009 with a couple of low-key releases, the first being the AA-side ‘Photobooth/Weightlessness’ which received generally positive reviews. The band then