Alex Caballero
‘Wu-Tang is for the children’. This is what Wu-Tang’s Clan’s Russell Jones, better known by his stage name ‘Ol’ Dirty...
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Georgina Quach
On first listen, the soft-spoken melodies created by Australian rapper Genesis Owusu (born Kofi Owusu-Ansah) don’t immediately ring as political....
We’re all living in it. Or some did. Here. Eton Alive, the newest album from Sleaford Mods, is a fearful listen....
Georgina Quach
“What was wonderful about going through some dark times,” confesses Katie Monks, lead singer and guitarist of rock band Dilly...
Gabrielle Woodward
David Pickard: choir schoolboy, Cambridge graduate, Britain’s leading classical music executive. For anyone interested in classical music, David Pickard is...
Georgina Quach
Ahead of their recently-announced headline gig at the glamorous Freud bar on the 20th of February, I caught up with...
Georgina Quach
Deftly hushed, confessional and yet timid, Cavernzz’ woozy bedroom pop sits on the fringes of collective security—drawn from the quiet,...
Caspar Frankford
James Blake’s mainstream popularity has always seemed odd. His naturally melancholic vocals, bleak and abstract lyrics, grating synths, jerky beats...
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Lola Grieve
With the corporate hollowing out of the media now commonplace, music journalism is fighting back. The battle against commercialism, clickbait...
Eric McElroy
John Joubert, one of the most celebrated British composers of our time, died on 7 January at the age of...
Mari Johnson
Sunflower Bean arrived in Oxford following the release of their second full length album Twenty-Two in Blue. Hailing from Brooklyn...
Julian Woods
Those who know the Jazz Society’s concerts at The Mad Hatter will know they’re always a good experience, but the...
Georgina Quach
Every now and again we stumble upon an album that quietly evolves as it’s absorbed—its images, chord changes and melodies,...
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James Heward
In 2018, there was one album I’d been waiting for: Anderson .Paak’s Oxnard. Dre was producing, “Tints” had the funky...
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Connor Thirlwell
Lacuna Common, alongside contemporaries Self Help and the Easter Island Statues, find themselves at the vanguard of a flourishing Oxford...
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Connor Thirlwell
Image credit: Connor Thirlwell. Description: Hinds at the Bullingdon. I’m embarrassed by the number of times people have remarked that...
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Katy Jenkinson
Image credit: Jockstrap. Of all the new releases this year, only one band has really stood out for me: Jockstrap....
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Connor Thirlwell
Images courtesy of Sports Team/Nice Swan Records/Holm Front Records. Description: indie sextet Sports Team, posing. By the time I meet...
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Emily Boothroyd & Claudia Watson
Image credit: Connor Thirlwell. Description: Cirkus on George Street. Picture the scene… you’ve spent the whole day in the library,...
