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Track Of The Day – Veronica Falls -” My Heart Beats”

Veronica Falls release  the first preview of brand new material since their fabulous  début album, which was in our top five albums of 2011. Yet again its a wonderful melodic slice of frenetically strummed, beautifully sung pop, with that classic retro indie vibe which has won them so many fans in the last year. We...

The Jesus And Mary Chain Return

Following last year's  deluxe reissue package, the Jesus and Mary Chain have announced their first shows since 2008. Unfortunately for us Brits they are US only dates so far. Their mysterious and enigmatic spokesman Kevin Smythe describes it as the band "dipping their toes in the water again." As well as William and Jim Reid...

Track Of The Day – Severin – “High Shot”

SEVERIN London noise pop electronica duo SEVERIN  release their debut EP “Everything Breaks” on Tip Top Recordings (Blue on Blue, Royal Treatment Plant) on 19th March 2012 on 12" vinyl and download. Their debut EP will be preceded by single "High Shot" on March 5th, which sounds like a post industrial apocalyptic version of Strawberry Switchblade....

Songs To Learn And Sing – Oh Minnows(Mary Chain cover) Kathleen Edwards and exlovers

Oh Minnows   Oh Minnows has done a beautiful cover of Jesus & Mary Chains ''Just Like Honey'' for part of the Just Like Honey charity cover compilation. The album itself is basically twelve reimaginings by different artists of this classic track. 100 % profit from all the songs will be donated to Breast Cancer Care (http://www.breastcancercare.org.uk/) Oh Minnows plays every instrument on...

Track Of The Day – “Boundary” By Ivory Seas.

We must confess we don't know a great deal about Ivory Seas other than what they've told us. In fact we don't even know what they look like, however our interrogation which included the humane use of thumbscrews yielded the following info:  They  launched  as a unit in early January 2012 , their members are...

Track Of The Day – “Hide” By Access Royale.

Access Royale are an eclectic indie rock band hailing from Washington DC.  With influences which include Classic rock, hip hop and Radiohead the band discovered each other when the cosmos collided via Craigslist in early 2011, and pretty soon after were all hotfooting it to L.A. to film the video for their single “Hide.” “Hide”...

Rapid Reviews – Lana Del Rey – Born To Die

On a personal level you could certainly understand Lana Del Rey if she disagreed with the epigram "The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about." It's difficult to think of a singer who has had to endure such a vitriolic backlash before having even released an album and it must...

The Von Pip Musical Express Podcast – January 2012

The news is fucking depressing isn't it ?   Cuts, cuts and yet more cuts and then when you think it can't possibly get any worse you observe the ghastly school matronly visage of  The Daily Heil's Obergruppenführer, Melanie Phillips  on BBC's Question Time, blithely lecturing us about what is right - "We should lay off the...