Blog: The VPME

Track(s) Of The Day – Shinies

Apr 23, 7:00am The VPME
Shinies - "Ennui" (Official Video)
The VPME New musical discoveries are normally unearthed using a wide variety of resources, be it old school word of mouth or via new music champions such as Amazing Radio and BBC introducing or indeed wading through new uploads via streaming services such as Soundcloud, Deezer and Spotify.  But rarely do they come via parents who are pensioners and who view popular culture with the sort of narrow minded paranoia that even hardened Daily Mail readers may regard as being 'slightly myopic.' Nevertheless, that's exactly how we came across Manchester's Shinies.  During a visit [...]
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Artist:SHINIES
Title:Eighteen
File Name:SoundCloud
Genre:Noisepop
Artist:SHINIES
Title:Shola
File Name:SoundCloud
Genre:Noisepop
Year:2012
Artist:SHINIES
Title:SHUGA
File Name:SoundCloud
Genre:Noise

Natalie McCool Album Launch Party

Apr 23, 5:58am The VPME
The VPME Liverpool's Natalie McCool will perform a live show (complete with full band and visuals) at her debut album launch on Saturday April 27th @ The Picket, Liverpool, 7:30pm. Hosted by Milk Presents. Compered by BBC 6 Music DJ Chris Hawkins. With support from Nadine Carina & BIRD. Aftershow party til 4am with DJ sets from Samuèl (everisland / Riddance) & POLKA SYMBOLIC. GET TICKETS HERE: http://www.seetickets.com/even t/milk-presents-natalie-mccool -album-launch-party/the-picket /704220 Bio With her childhood years spent drawing together a fine fabric of influences from [...]
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Artist:NatalieMcCool
Title:Size Zero
File Name:SoundCloud
Genre:Alternative

TRACK OF THE DAY – The Kaleidoscopes -’Coming Up.’

Apr 22, 2:25am The VPME
The VPME The Kaleidoscopes are from Birmingham (UK) and they produce the sort blissed out dream pop that will doubtless garner countless My Bloody Valentine comparisons.  Yet it's an association you feel the band can live with, mixing as they do, bleached out ethereal droning harmonies with explosive incendiary guitar licks. After releasing a collection of demos it seems The Kaleidoscopes were somewhat surprised that this track 'Coming Up' turned out to be the something of a musical lightning rod.  Apparently it's the one track on their demo EP that spent the [...]
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Artist:KaleidoscopesUK
Title:Coming up
File Name:SoundCloud
Genre:Shoegaze

100 More Artists Added to Great Escape Line Up

Apr 18, 10:14am The VPME
The Great Escape 2013 Taster
The VPME ONE MONTH TO GO UNTIL THE GREAT ESCAPE 2013 OVER 100 ARTISTS CONFIRMED TO COMPLETE 2013 LINE-UP FULL FESTIVAL SCHEDULE NOW AVAILABLE LIMITED NUMBER OF FESTIVAL TICKETS REMAINING ALTERNATIVE ESCAPE LINE-UP ANNOUNCED The Great Escape, taking place May 16 th -18 th ,  announced a further 100 artists to complete the 2013 line-up.  The programme is [...]
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More Liverpool Sound City Announcements

Apr 16, 9:12am The VPME
NO CEREMONY/// - FEELSOLOW
The VPME JUST OVER TWO WEEKS TO GO UNTIL THE FIRST FESTIVAL OF THE YEAR!   BILL RYDER JONES (THE CORAL) / WILLY MOON / SWISS LIPS / RUEN BROTHERS / DARK HORSES / NINA NESBITT / STEVIE NEALE / NO CEREMONY/// / WALL / GLASS ANIMALS / OWLS* / SUGARMEN / ROY DAHAN / MIKEL PASKALEV ADDED TO THE BILL   OVER 50 EMERGING ARTISTS ALSO CONFIRMED [...]
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Track Of The Day – Jupiter – C – ‘Birdsong’

Apr 15, 4:13am The VPME
JUPITER-C - MORE THAN HUMAN
The VPME After a weekend of near apoplectic rage over a certain somebody getting an alleged 10 million pound state funded send off ( so the state ain't all bad after all eh?) we needed to chill the f**k out. Which is where Jupiter - C come in A musical duo hailing from Manchester and Liverpool respectively, Ashiya Eastwood and David Kane arrive in the nick of time to sooth our fevered brow with their spooky, spaced out dead of night beauty.  'Birdsong' seeps into the corners of the brain [...]
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Artist:JUPITER-C
Title:BIRDSONG
File Name:SoundCloud
Artist:JUPITER-C
Title:DECRIER
File Name:SoundCloud

Track Of The Day – Wolf Alice – ‘Bros’

Apr 11, 10:12am The VPME
The VPME We are as short on time today as David Cameron is on integrity,  but we've always got time for Wolf Alice. One of our tips for 2013, Wolf Alice  go from strength to strength and appear to take monumental steps forward with every release whilst seem to be able to traverse any given genre with an effortless grace that few bands can manage. Folk, grunge, dream pop, Wolf Alice nail them all and their latest offering  'Bros' is a spiralling, majestic wonder that again demonstrates what a wonderfully warm, expressive voice Ellie Roswell [...]
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Artist:Wolf Alice
Title:Bros
File Name:SoundCloud
Year:2013

Track Of The Day – Big Deal – ‘In Your Car’

Apr 10, 10:01am The VPME
Big Deal - In Your Car
The VPME Truth is the first time we heard Big Deal (Alice Costelloe & Kacey Underwood) was via The Guardian's New Band Of the Day with a track called 'Homework.' And we  rather liked them, but what with the speed of all things on line, modern life and other excuses like THESE we actually didn't go back and investigate. So without writing an open letter of apology (because we don't generally write open letters) we'll pretend we're incredibly hip and discovered them before they'd [...]
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Artist:Big Deal
Title:In Your Car
File Name:SoundCloud
Genre:Rock/pop

Track Of The Day – Video Première – September Girls – ‘Talking.’

Apr 8, 6:03am The VPME
September Girls - Talking
The VPME Here's a video exclusive to brighten your Monday morning.  It's from Dublin based all female noise pop quintet September Girls, and heralds the bands new 7” single 'Talking ' released by the Cork based label Art For Blind.  The video itself is animated by artist and sometime September Girl Leigh Arthur who mixes a Powder-Puff Girl aesthetic, B-movie monsters with a wigged out early 702s Halas & Bachelor pop vibe . We've previously described the band as something akin to what The Bangles, minus the sunshine produced by [...]
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Songs To Learn And Sing – Mount Fabric, Findlay, Jonny Cola & The A Grades, Little Sparrow

Apr 5, 6:13am The VPME
Songs To Learn And Sing – Mount Fabric, Findlay, Jonny Cola & The A Grades, Little Sparrow The VPME Mount Fabric Heuristic Fits, the new single from Mount Fabric is released on 15th April via Crystalline Record. Apparently it's  "a song about the failings of the human brain as it tries to comprehend the meaning of life, the universe and everything." It's the first release from the band in 2013, and kicks off a series of singles throughout the year exploring science, religion and consciousness. Good job it's not  exploring the "empathy of George Osborne" as one suspects this would be a very short series indeed and be liberally [...]
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Artist:Jonny Cola & The A-Grades
Title:Straight To Video
File Name:SoundCloud
Genre:Glam Rock
Year:2013
Artist:Media Curve
Title:LITTLE SPARROW - Sending The Message
File Name:SoundCloud
Genre:Acoustic
Artist:Mount Fabric
Title:Heuristic Fits
File Name:SoundCloud
Genre:Moody Rock
Year:2013

Track Of The Day(2) – Natalie McCool – Black Sun

Apr 4, 8:14am The VPME
The VPME If we assume that McCool genuinely is Natalie's surname, then really, what choice did she have but to become a musician?  McCool the Traffic Warden isn't really a great fit outside of Ballamory is it?  Of course, it helps that Natalie's blessed with a fabulous emotive voice and has the ability to write songs as jaw droppingly good as 'Black Sun' .  Today's track of the day is a mix of tribal beats fused with swirling psych undercurrents, and vocals that conjure up Fleetwood Mac in their pomp (before [...]
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Artist:NatalieMcCool
Title:Black Sun
File Name:SoundCloud
Genre:Alternative Pop

Track Of The Day – Skeleton Suite – ‘Wounded’

Apr 4, 3:31am The VPME
The VPME Photo © Marga Moner So Skeleton Suite what's the deal?  What interesting back-story can we furnish you with about today's rather wonderful tune?  Well not a lot actually, because there really is a poverty of information on-line about the young scamps.  Foraging about the cyber frontier like an undernourished Jean Valjean in search of sustenance, the few meagre crumbs we could gather and fashion into a digestible  loaf of information are as follows; - Skeleton Suite emerged in the aftermath of the breakup of [...]
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Artist:Skeleton Suite
Title:Wounded
File Name:SoundCloud

Public Service Broadcasting – ‘Inform Educate Entertain’ Review-Interview

Apr 1, 1:15pm The VPME
PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING - ROYGBIV
The VPME Public Service Broadcasting's bold manifesto is to 'teach the lessons of the past through the music of the future .'  The London based experimental musical duo consisting of J.Willgoose Esq. and Wrigglesworth II take samples from old archive footage, propaganda newsreels and public information films and blend them with soaring electronic post-rock grooves to produce something genuinely inspiring and original! After generating a buzz with their début single ' ROYGBIV' they were soon being lauded by critics and fans alike for their 'The War Room [...]
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Artist:Public Service Broadcasting
Title:EVEREST
File Name:SoundCloud
Genre:electronica
Year:2012

Gig Pictures Of The Month – February/ March 2013

Mar 29, 1:21pm The VPME
Gig Pictures Of The Month – February/ March 2013 The VPME Dark Horses By Andy Von Pip @The Night And Day Cafe, 23/03/2012 Manchester.     [...]
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Artist:Jones/Southall
Title:Painted Lady
File Name:SoundCloud
Artist:Lindi Ortega
Title:Demons Don't Get Me Down
File Name:SoundCloud
Genre:Alte/Country
Year:2012

Track Of The Day – Wax Idols – ‘Sound of a Void’

Mar 29, 5:10am The VPME
The VPME Wax Idols are a band we've flirted with over the last few years but with the release of their second album,' Discipline and Desire' we feel the time has come to fully consummate our relationship.  Like UK's Savages you'll hear echoes (and maybe even Bunnymen) of a variety influences from the past but Wax Idol's forge them into something uniquely their own. Singer and driving force Heather Fortune's vision is singular, sometimes disturbing, emotionally raw but never anything less than utterly real and totally engaging.  It's a fuck load of attitude, [...]
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Artist:Wax Idols
Title:Sound of a Void
File Name:SoundCloud
Genre:Post-Punk
Year:2013

Track Of The Day – The Good Natured – ‘Lovers’

Mar 28, 7:57am The VPME
The VPME Well it's been a long time coming but finally VPME fave's The Good Natured's début album is set to drop. It's called 'Prisim' and is apparently "based around the idea of the prism being my heart; each emotion I feel makes up a different colour in the prism" explains vocalist Sarah McIntosh. A rather lovely poetic idea  but one that perhaps wouldn't perhaps work for us,  after all the  only colour you'd be able to perceive is BLACK! The band are offering live favourite [...]
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Artist:The Good Natured
Title:Lovers
File Name:SoundCloud
Genre:Modern Wave Pop

Track Of The Day (2) – Curxes – ‘Further Still’

Mar 26, 8:46am The VPME
The VPME UK electronic duo Curxes return with a brand new and rather fabulous song available as a free download entitled 'Further Still.'   We've previously described their haunting, cybertronic blitzkrieg electro-sextro-pop as something that resembles M.R. James scripting ' Bladrunner- the Musical', but this track shows a more reflective gentle side. Gone are jarring metallic bolts of sonic thunder, replaced by a slow building undulating torch song suffused with a sense of doomed grandeur and faded glamour.  It features an incredible vocal from lead singer Roberta Fidora, who proves yet again, [...]
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Artist:CHVRCHES
Title:Recover (Curxes' 1996 Remix)
File Name:SoundCloud
Genre:Electronic
Artist:CURXES
Title:FURTHER STILL (FREE DOWNLOAD)
File Name:SoundCloud
Genre:Blitz-pop

Track Of The Day – Musique Le Pop – ‘Turn To Sand’

Mar 26, 4:00am The VPME
The VPME It's been almost a year to the day since we featured Norwegian electro pop trio Musique Le Pop's début single 'Time Changes'   which, quite frankly had us in a rapture of delight.  We were so excited we introduced them on Shell Zenner's Amazing Radio show... and then… well.... nothing really.  The band seemed to disappear. It transpired that Jon (the bands keyboard player) is also in another other band, called 'Sweden' who had started to generate a bit of a buzz [...]
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Artist:Musique Le Pop
Title:Turn To Sand
File Name:SoundCloud
Genre:Indie Electronic
Year:2013

Track of the Day – Midas Fall – ‘BDP’

Mar 25, 11:40am The VPME
The VPME When you posses the sort of voice Midas Fall's lead singer Elizabeth Heaton has been blessed with, comparisons are inevitable.  Liz Fraser, Harriet Wheeler, and Amy Lee (possibly fronting Portished) are names that can easily be tossed into the ring when your ears first experience Heaton's crystalline vocals.  However, whereas lesser singers may find such comparisons a heavy burden, Heaton's vocal is so strong and so beautifully pure that it more than stands up to such analogising. Whilst Heaton's voice may be jaw droppingly beautiful, it's also the dazzling nature of the [...]
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Artist:Monotreme Records
Title:Midas Fall 'BPD'
File Name:SoundCloud
Genre:Alternative

The Von Pip Musical Express Podcast March 2013

Mar 23, 8:49am The VPME
The VPME The latest Von Pip Musical Express Podcast , featuring Primal Scream, Suede, Nicole Atkins, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Coves, classic Bowie, Jason Molina (R.I.P), Blindness, Echo And The Bunnymen and a shed load of great music.  There may even be an appearance from a New Jersey mobster and a rock n Roll pirate - What more could you ask for?  Treat your ears by clicking play below. The Von Pip Musical Express Podcast March 2013 by Thevonpipmusicalexpress on [...]
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