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·25th April 2014

0th week playlist

Jake Downs, Sachin Croker, Lucy Thraves
<iframe src=”https://embed.spotify.com/?uri=spotify:user:1158915230:playlist:1HUhxfmvXWQoKnec2reeHk” width=”300″ height=”380″ frameborder=”0″ allowtransparency=”true”></iframe> ‘You’re Not The One’ – Sky Ferreira ‘XO’- Beyoncé ‘Red Eyes’- The Wars on...
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Life
·14th May 2017

2 Edgy 4 Glasto: The OxStu Guide to This Summer’s Best Music Festivals

Sebastian Braddock
Glastonbury, Reading, Roskilde, Primavera Sound. Names that roll off the tongue and get those same tongues wagging about lineup releases,...
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Life
·3rd February 2018

2018 has arrived – what did we miss from the last year?

Jonathan Sands
2018 is upon us, and it promises to be a great year for music. However, it seems a shame to...
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·25th December 2013

5 Musical Christmas Crackers

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OxStu Music takes a listen to some of the more obscure of this year’s Christmas songs… At some point in...
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Gladiator: a soundtrack fit for a hero... like you
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·19th February 2018

6 soundtracks to defeat your essay crisis

Josephine Southon, Anna Thomas, and Jonathan Sands
Josephine recommends… Gladiator Every essay is a battle, every library a battlefield. You need a soundtrack that casts you as...
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·18th October 2015

A Brief History of House Music

Daniel Keane
Since the inception of Bloody Knuckles in 2013, the popularity of house music in the Oxford region has grown exponentially....
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·11th May 2021

A Bucket List for now

Sonia Richter
Image description: Hand writing a list in a notebook The etymological emergence of the term “bucket list” has a surprisingly...
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Life
·6th June 2018

A contemplative album requiring an attentive ear: Courtney Barnett delivers a slow burner

Isobel Conlon
The first moments of Courtney Barnett’s latest album, Tell Me How You Really Feel, sound reminiscent of those of ‘Kim’s...
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·29th May 2017

A dreamy evening with OUBB and OUWO

Once upon a time, the Oxford University Brass Band (OUBB) and the Oxford University Wind Orchestra (OUWO) combined forces to...
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·21st August 2012

A Fantasia of English Music – Prom 23

Hazel Rowland
For some reason I wasn’t expecting much from this concert. Perhaps it was something to do with the relatively non-starry...
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·6th May 2014

1st week playlist

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‘Raimondas Rumsas’ – Oliver Coates   ‘Everything Happens to Me’ – Mr Hudson and the Library   ‘Life’s a Bitch’...
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·17th January 2017

2016: The End of the Golden Ages

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There is no denying 2016 was the grim reaper of years for the world of rock and pop music.  According...
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·20th January 2021

2021: Time for a new approach to our resolutions?

Khadijah Ali
Image description: Colourful fireworks against the background of a night sky Needless to say, 2020 was a tough year for...
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·11th October 2016

5 Types of Fresher and How to Spot them

1. The Gap Yah Inbetween long stories about how they built a well in Kenya or chundered everywhere in Budapest,...
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·17th February 2013

A Bloody good comeback

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Last week, My Bloody Valentine released their first album since seminal sophomore record Loveless in 1991. After disbanding in 1997,...
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·4th June 2014

A brief introduction to… Jack & the Giants

Jack & the Giants are a new band from Oxford. Their debut EP, … Something in the Roots, is released...
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·3rd October 2012

A City Soundtrack

Ashley Cooke
The OxStu introduces you to three decades of Oxonian creativity Radiohead (Anyone Can Play Guitar)   The Candyskins (Feed It)...
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·17th May 2012

A decade in and still flying the cape!

Calum Bradbury-Sparvell has a riotous chat with Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly’s Sam Duckworth…...
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·7th November 2013

A eulogy to the late, great, Lou Reed

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I listened to ‘Street Hassle’ for the first time when I was 14. I remember dismissing it back then as...
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