Reviews of music releases, live shows, and more from the VPME
This week featuring Mode Moderne, Two Wounded Birds, Eleanor Friedberger, Young Husband, Ellie Lawson, Flow Machines, Emily Barker, The Finger, Little Daggers and The John Peel Approved Festive 50. ******************************** Mode Moderne. Vancouver’s Mode Moderne
“Bad Feeling” By Veronica Falls. [soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/21304920″ params=”auto_play=false&player_type=artwork&color=ae1b30″ width=”220″ height=”220″ ] Before interviewing a band it’s always best to do a little research. For example asking Morrissey if he’s tried the succulent new “Mc
“Phantoms Ep” By BIRD. The “Phantoms ep” is released 31st October digitally from the highly promising Liverpool based , Bird. Fronted by 22 year old songstress Adele Emmas they are influenced by the likes of
HOWLING BELLS ‘The Loudest Engine ‘Special. [soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/16255336″ params=”show_comments=true&auto_play=false&color=570c10″ width=”100%” height=”81″ iframe=”false” /] The Album Review The problem with producing a flawless debut album widely regarded by many as a genuine classic, is that there
“Black And Blues” By Jim Reid. [soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/23565112″ params=”show_comments=false&auto_play=false&color=9b100b” width=”100%” height=”81″ ] Jim Reid of the Jesus And Mary Chain has previewed a new song on his soundcloud account and if that’s not enough to
Photo Credit – Michele Civetta. [soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/20235733″ params=”auto_play=false&player_type=artwork&color=ff0034″ width=”300″ height=”300″ iframe=”false” /] ************************** Brian Eno once described Ladytron as a band who posses “a full awareness of what’s happening everywhere in music which is
“Bedroom Eyes” By Dum Dum Girls. [soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/21830514″ params=”show_comments=false&auto_play=false&color=9b100b” width=”100%” height=”81″ ] ************************ For somebody brought up in a house filled with the music of Buddy Holly, Gene Vincent, Phil Spector, the Brill Building
We’ve swooned, been moved and waxed lyrical with regard to Sarabeth Tucek and her beautiful album ‘Get Well Soon’ a number of times on this here blog. In fact such has been our admiration for
It’s been a bit quite here lately. This was due in no small part, to a trip to Italy and a wish to never return to Blighty and her relentless grey skies. However return we
‘Riot’ By The Whip. [soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/15979639″] Manchester has long been a fertile breeding ground for electronic music, be it the nihilistic, heart wrenching poetry of Joy Division, set against the backdrop of a bleak,
“A Woman, A Woman, A Century of Sleep” By Emmy The Great. [soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/13651230″ params=”show_comments=false&auto_play=false&color=cf0b1b” width=”100%” height=”81″ ] It wasn’t quite love at first listen with regard to Emmy The Great’s debut album ‘First Love’,
“Hollow Heart” By Birdland. Reunions are very much part and parcel of today’s musical landscape, some work extremely and sometimes things are better left in the past, that “foreign country”: where “they do things