Jan 15, 2021 By Andy Von Pip Photography by Cat Stevens COVID-19 may have put paid to most of 2020’s live music events, but one of the surprise hits of the lockdown has been Tim Burgess, frontman of The Charlatans, and his Twitter listening parties.…

Tim Burgess of The Charlatans on His Twitter Listening Parties

How can music recover in 2021? Well, that depends on our ability to control COVID 19 and then see who and what is left standing. Personally, I’m hoping the artists listed below have every opportunity to develop and thrive creatively as well as…

THE VPME – One’s To Watch 2021

It’s common knowledge now that coronavirus and the subsequent lockdowns it brought about has had a hugely negative impact on the live music industry nationwide. Protests in major cities, appearances on prime-time television from industry…

This Is Just An Interval – Directed by Matthew Boone

It’s been a year where all the norms were turned upside down. People often comment it was a year where very little happened, I’d contend that so much happened it was hard to keep up! Amidst the shit storm, there were bright spots and heroes such as…

THE VPME TOP 50 ALBUMS OF 2020

So Christmas is almost upon us but there’s still time to listen to this years Christmas podcast
or last years when the world was more normal
And before we attach ourselves to a drip made up of fine wines and festive ales here are a few festive tracks…

Christmas Music Wrapped 2020

Dec 22, 2020 By Andy Von Pip By Andy Von Pip Taylor Swift has always been a master of reinvention, from prodigious country singer/songwriter to tabloid-friendly girl-next-door pop alchemist to global megastar. 2020 has seen her conjure not one but…

Taylor Swift

Ahead of the Christmas Special the last Podemic Podcast of 2020, great new music and some thoughts on the U.S. election, foil heads and bullies.
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Track List
Intro VPME 00:00:00
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The Von Pip Podemic Podcast – December 2020

Dec 04, 2020 By Andy Von Pip By Andy Von Pip Anna von Hausswolff’s latest album, All Thoughts Fly , is an aural representation of her experience and the emotions provoked whilst visiting the Sacro Bosco (Sacred Grove) Gardens in the province of…

Anna von Hausswolff

Nov 19, 2020 By Andy Von Pip By Andy Von Pip Love them or loathe them, there’s no escaping the much-maligned ubiquitous festive album at this time of year. Yet amongst the overstuffed turkeys, mawkish sentimentality and shameless cash-ins, there have…

Goo Goo Dolls

Nov 17, 2020 By Andy Von Pip By Andy Von Pip Drew Citron has been a mainstay of the Brooklyn indie creative scene for several years now, and 2020 sees her release her solo debut album. Perhaps circumstance conspired to push Citron into the spotlight,…

Drew Citron

Hello , here’s the latest Playlist for September / October. The last time I published a new music playlist young master Trump was still in the Whitehouse. At the time of writing, despite losing the U.S. election to “Sleepy ” Joe,…

VPME Spotify Play list – September October 2020

Oct 28, 2020 By Andy Von Pip By Andy Von Pip If you were looking for an album that summed up the dystopian shit show known as 2020 then you’d be hard-pressed to find a better one than KOMPROMAT the first album in eight years from UK collective I LIKE…

I LIKE TRAINS

Hello ! This months podcast features an interview with Juanita Stein about her new album ‘Snapshot’
As well as highlighting the best new (ish) music from Goat Girl, Working Men’s Club, Black Honey, Deep Sea Diver and more, Billy Bragg pops in to…

The Von Pip Podemic Podcast – October 2020

Oct 23, 2020 By Andy Von Pip Photography by Cat Stevens The album was slowly put together rather than Burgess cramming in solo projects between working with The Charlatans and touring. “This time I felt had all the time in the world,” he reflects.…

Tim Burgess on “I Love the Sky”

Oct 22, 2020 By Andy Von Pip By Andy Von Pip Deep Sea Diver’s third studio album, Impossible Weight, began life during an intense period of inner turmoil and self-doubt, which saw songwriter and guitarist Jessica Dobson begin to question whether she…

Deep Sea Diver

Oct 16, 2020 By Andy Von Pip By Andy Von Pip In a world where the omnipotent algorithm demands instant attention-grabbing earworms, Motherhood, the new album from No Joy (the project of Montreal-based artist, Jasamine White-Gluz), is a body of work…

No Joy

Howling Bells frontwoman Juanita Stein is about to release her third solo album ‘Snapshot’. It’s her most direct and personal album to date informed by her father’s sudden illness and subsequent death.
“It’s a very strange and new landscape of grief…

IN CONVERSATION: Juanita Stein on new album Snapshot: “we are living in a dystopian version of Back To The Future”

Oct 14, 2020 By Andy Von Pip By Andy Von Pip And yet in bringing out that truth the production can sound at times almost a little too reverential. Dessner ensures the album gently undulates along, adding a shimmering veneer to Georgas’ understated…

Hannah Georgas

Juanita Stein: Snapshot
Nude Records
LP|CD released 23rd October 2020
Howling Bells front-woman Juanita Stein returns with her third solo album, informed by her father’s illness and ultimately his death as she tries to navigate the seismic experience…

Juanita Stein: Snapshot – album review

Sep 17, 2020 By Andy Von Pip Photography by Nicole Loucaides On paper, 2020 looked like being a busy and exciting time for UK singer/songwriter Fenne Lily. Appearances at SXSW, U.S. dates with Waxahatchee and Lucy Dacus, before an extensive tour of…