Reviews of music releases, live shows, and more from the VPME
2014 has been an exceptional year for debut albums proving that those who thinks new music isn’t delivering have obviously been looking in all the wrong places. And we’ll certainly be adding NYC/Philly band Field
South Dakota’s EMA( Erika M. Anderson) has unquestionably released one of THE albums of 2014 in the shape of ‘The Future’s Void’, a darkly humorous, challenging and artistically bold body of work. It’s an album
Our bemusement at the fact that Australian born, London based Howling Bells haven’t became huge stadia straddling rock n roll gods is tempered by the fact that actually we don’t really enjoy huge gigs. Arena
Howling Bells fourth album ‘Heartstrings’ has been described in some quarters as “a return to form”… so we obviously must have missed the bit when they supposedly had some sort of creative crisis? Because to
So it’s time to recap on another urban festival this time in the shape of The Dot To Dot festival which generally takes place during the late May bank holiday weekend over three days kicking
Forget everything you’ve seen or heard about Bird, for in a sense everything that went before was a tease, a prelude to the main event. The main event being the Merseyside four piece’s debut album
Liverpool Sound City returned for its seventh year, turning disused garages, dilapidated warehouses, and gothic revival Cathedrals into vibrant bustling venues for three days of musical madness. If the queues where anything to go by
Let’s start at the end. As Bristol’s shoegaze collective The Fauns left the stage after completing a jawdroppingly brilliant set you couldn’t help but muse on the fact that this is a band who’s sound
(EMA) Erika M. Anderson’s 2011 debut ‘Past Life Martyred Saints’ was a brutal raw emotionally bruising affair. It was certainly not an album for the faint- hearted, referencing subject matter such as DV and self-harm and
It must be pretty galling when you’re as talented and passionate a band as Bleech if you happened across the so- called ‘tastemaker’ lists that emerge at beginning of every year rammed with some of
We’ve been tipping Leamington Spa duo Coves for big things for a few years now after falling under John Ridgard and Rebekah Wood’s beguiling cinematic psyche pop spell. Finally, after a series of critically acclaimed
The fact that the London-centric music media has sacrificed objectivity for ad revenue and gleefully lap up the lukewarm diarrhoea served up by the music industry has sadly caused some people to completely give up