VMP Magazine

VMP Rising is our series where we partner with up-and-coming artists to press their music to vinyl and highlight artists we think are going to be the Next Big Thing. Today we’re featuring the deluxe edition of Freelance from Brooklyn-born rapper Ben Reilly. 

VMP Rising is our series where we partner with up-and-coming artists to press their music to vinyl and highlight artists we think are going to be the Next Big Thing. Today we’re featuring a compilation from Project Traction, Project Traction Vol. 1.

VMP Rising is our series where we partner with up-and-coming artists to press their music to vinyl and highlight artists we think are going to be the Next Big Thing. Today, we’re featuring Topaz Jones’ breakout sophomore album, Don’t Go Tellin’ Your Momma (which shares a title with its companion piece, Jones’ critically acclaimed short film).

VMP Rising is our series where we partner with up-and-coming artists to press their music to vinyl and highlight artists we think are going to be the Next Big Thing. Today, we’re featuring Kilo Kish’s debut album, Reflections in Real Time. 

VMP Rising is our series where we partner with up-and-coming artists to press their music to vinyl and highlight artists we think are going to be the Next Big Thing. Today we’re featuring Zsela's debut EP, Ache of Victory.

VMP Rising is our series where we partner with up-and-coming artists to press their music to vinyl and highlight artists we think are going to be the Next Big Thing. Today, we’re featuring the new album gelato from boylife.

VMP Rising is our series where we partner with up-and-coming artists to press their music to vinyl and highlight artists we think are going to be the Next Big Thing. Today we’re featuring All in One, the debut album from the up-and-coming Canadian band, Jaunt.

VMP Rising is our series where we partner with up-and-coming artists to press their music to vinyl and highlight artists we think are going to be the Next Big Thing. Today we’re featuring Peace, the debut EP album from Junior Mesa.

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VMP Rising is our series where we partner with up-and-coming artists to press their music to vinyl and highlight artists we think are going to be the Next Big Thing. Today, we’re featuring the new EP There's Always Going to Be Something from Jackie Hayes.

VMP Rising is our series where we partner with up-and-coming artists to press their music to vinyl and highlight artists we think are going to be the Next Big Thing. Today, we’re featuring two EPs from vōx This Body and I Am Not A God, featured respectively on sides A and B of our vinyl release.

On a particularly hot morning, I find myself trying to find out how to get back to the original point of my conversation with London-based rock outfit Gaygirl. Instead, guitarist Lewis Clark uncovers a strange memory from his teenage years playing in bands with his schoolmates. “One day in school, we had a climbing wall built for us and we played at the opening for this climbing wall.” The laughs died down, and as we approached the next question, Clark interjects, “No one used that climbing wall. It smelled like fish.”

VMP Rising is our series where we partner with up-and-coming artists to press their music to vinyl and highlight artists we think are going to be the Next Big Thing. Today we’re featuring a double EP comprised of Fruit and Love and Ownership, London-based Sharky’s debut and sophomore EPs.

VMP Rising is our series where we partner with up-and-coming artists to press their music to vinyl and highlight artists we think are going to be the Next Big Thing. Today, we’re featuring Swim Team, the debut EP from Christelle Bofelle.