Track Of the Day – Drakes Hotel – ‘Young Taste’
Ever had one of those moments when you stare up at the night sky and feel like a tiny insignificant dot when faced with the vastness of the universe? We felt a little like that
Alan McGee : New Labour were a Hugo Boss version of the Tories
Alan McGee recently spoke to UK newspaper The Guardian and discussed the Mary Chain, meeting Tony Blair and reveals who were the hardest band he’d ever had to manage. On the Mary Chains early days
Never Mind The Buzzcocks – The Art of Saying NO
I’ve become increasingly weary of ‘Never Mind The Buzzcocks’ – a show that’s been furiously treading water in the sea of banality for a number of years now. Any wit or spontaneity has long since
Songs To Learn And Sing – Lola Colt, Snowbird, Mourning Birds, Gwenno, The Spook School, Femme, Natalie McCool
Lola Colt -Jackson We’d previously described Lola Colt as “a magisterial mix of dark seductive psyche gaze “- who “invoke a swirling musical maelstrom, a space age psychedelic spaghetti western…” but we had to stop
Track Of The Day – Sky Larkin – ‘Newsworthy’
Well this is certainly newsworthy, seriously! It’s Sky Larkin’s latest single ‘Newsworthy’ taken from their third album ‘Motto’ which is perhaps their most vibrant and focused work to date. Apparently, singer/Guitarist Katie Harkin wrote a
Billy Bragg has called on UK artists to “take action” against the major labels
In an echo of Chuck D’s famous quote regarding the music industry’s failure to adapt to the digital age, Billy Bragg has stepped into the debate labelling artists such as Thom Yorke and Placebo’s Brian
VPME Meets – Avec Sans – Interview avec free download – ‘Shiver’
It would appear that often in the world of electronic pop, two’s company and three is indeed a crowd. From Sparks through to Yazoo, Soft Cell, Erasure, The Pet Shop Boys and more recently La
Track Of The Day – LUNGS – ‘Not Mine’
After their hugely impressive début single ‘Farway’ globe hopping duo Lungs return with ‘Not Mine’ another dreamy slice of stellular other worldly dreampop. More languid than its predecessor, ‘Not Mine’ drifts along fusing melancholy and
Track Of The Day – Dum Dum Girls – ‘The Lost Boys and Girls Club’
It may be Halloween, but here at VP Towers it feels like Christmas has arrived early in the shape of an AMAZING new song and video from Dum Dum Girls. Dum Dum Girls have long
Songs To Learn and Sing – Peggy Sue , The High Wire, Cheri Cheri Jaguar
Peggy Sue – Idle Peggy Sue first featured on the VPME way back in 2007 (then known as Peggy Sue and The Pirates) so it shouldn’t really come as a surprise that they are set
Tracks Of The Day – Courtly Love – ‘Mirage’ and ‘Voodoo Girl’
WOW! Courtly Love are a new brand quintet from East London and are one of those rare musical collectives who appear to have arrived fully formed and armed with clutch of quite wonderful tunes. Based
The VPME On The Radio – Halloween Special -2013
It has come to our attention that there are still people in the world who are unaware of our weekly radio show ! Tsk and so to that end we’d like to remind y’all that