Andy Von Pip

ANDY VON PIP - Founder, editor, writer, reviewer, photographer and all-round good guy at the VPME.com.House photographer for The Academy Music Group, Zuma Press, Event Magazine and Rex Features worldwide. You can check out his photography atAndy Von Pip PhotographyCurrently writing for U.S. Magazine and website Under The Radar.Andy been new music tipster on BBC6 Music, Amazing Radio, and DJ on Strangeways Radio (USA.) Regular podcasts can be found on Mixcloud and Spotify.He's also been a moderator for BBC 6 Music DJ Tom Robinson's Fresh on the Net, and a former member of "BBC's Sound Of" panel. Written and photographic work has been published worldwide wide and appeared in the likes of The Guardian, The Times, The Quietus, Music Week, Record Of The Day, GIITV, The Sabotage Times, The Skinny, Louder Than War.

The VPME | Track Of The Day - Team Picture

Track Of The Day – Team Picture

16/05/2017 by Andy Von Pip

One of our tips for 2017 Team Picture return with another swirling slice of menace in the shape of their new track ‘ Air, Not Air.’ We’ve already previously described this Leeds-based collective as being

The VPME | Fest Evol 2017 In Pictures 6

Fest Evol 2017 In Pictures

15/05/2017 by Andy Von Pip

You can read my FEST EVOL 2017 review in the Skinny HERE. Photos of the highlights below

The VPME | Track Of The Day - Zipper Club - Breath

Track Of The Day – Zipper Club – Breath

15/05/201712/05/2017 by Andy Von Pip

Zipper Club are the new musical project of Mason James (ex- Cerebral Ballzy) and Washington via NYC via L.A. based artist Lissie Trullie ( who we tipped back in 2010). Their latest single ‘Breath’, released

The VPME | Track Of The Day - Juanita Stein - Dark Horse 1

Track Of The Day – Juanita Stein – Dark Horse

08/05/2017 by Andy Von Pip

Howling Bells have been and remain one of our favourite bands to emerge during all our years of blogging. They really should be a band of stadia-straddling hugeness. So with that in mind, it’s no

The VPME | Ones To Watch - 2018 - 10. HMLTD

Songs To Learn And Sing – Sløtface, HMLTD

07/03/202205/05/2017 by Andy Von Pip

Songs To Learn and Sing Sløtface – ‘Magazine’ Norwegian grunge-punks Sløtface latest offering ‘Magazine’ arrives ahead of their debut album ‘Try Not To Freak Out’. It’s a spiky melodic affair in which the band tackle

The VPME | Liverpool Sound City 2017 - Preview - The Human League Interview 2

Liverpool Sound City 2017 – Preview – The Human League Interview

28/04/201728/04/2017 by Andy Von Pip

After almost 40 years in the game electronic pop pioneers The Human League headline the opening night of this year’s Liverpool Sound City. It promises to be a memorable occasion with guests the Art of Noise

The VPME | Liverpool Sound City 2017 Previews - Carl Barât and The Jackals Interview

Liverpool Sound City 2017 Previews – Carl Barât and The Jackals Interview

25/04/2017 by Andy Von Pip

Interview: Carl Barât and The Jackals Jackal, Libertine and one of the headliners at this year’s Liverpool Sound City festival. Carl Barât called Susie Bennett here at the VPME to chat about his plans for the

The VPME | FESTEVOL GARDENS - Bank Holiday Sunday 30th APRIL 2017 - PREVIEW 8

FESTEVOL GARDENS – Bank Holiday Sunday 30th APRIL 2017 – PREVIEW

09/03/202225/04/2017 by Andy Von Pip

This weekend Fest Evol returns as 33 artists including some of the best up and coming bands descend on Liverpool’s Invisible Wind Factory. With such a strong lineup it’s near impossible to narrow things down

Liverpool Sound City preview 2017 – Modern Sky Thinking

09/03/202213/04/2017 by Andy Von Pip

This year Liverpool Sound City celebrates ten years in the game, quite an achievement given that the festival was launched at the start of the economic downturn and at a time when seismic changes have

The VPME | Songs To Learn And Sing - Marnie, Black Fly, Empathy Test, St Jude The Obscure 1

Songs To Learn And Sing – Marnie, Black Fly, Empathy Test, St Jude The Obscure

09/03/202211/04/2017 by Andy Von Pip

Songs To Learn And Sing – The Electro version, so except liberal use of the words, “cinematic, brooding, pulsating and even Voight-Kampff” Marnie – Lost Maps Marnie returns ‘ Lost Maps ‘ with a new

The VPME | Track Of The Day - Skylar Fri - Better 2

Track Of The Day – Skylar Fri – Better

07/04/201707/04/2017 by Andy Von Pip

At the end of 2015 we tipped Skylar Fri as one to watch describing her music as “Sophisticated electronic chillwave tinged pop, commercial enough to get the ears of the pop crowd, and equally hip

The VPME | Songs To Learn And Sing - Abichan, Fuss and Indigo Moon 1

Songs To Learn And Sing – Abichan, Fuss and Indigo Moon

03/04/2017 by Andy Von Pip

Songs To Learn And Sing AbiChan – Whispers AbiChan is the new musical project of Ex-Zutons Saxophonist Abi Harding. Given her past musical associations, you could hardly be blamed for expecting perhaps something that has