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  • 6th February 2023
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    ‘Questions in a World of Blue’ – Ciana Russo’s Short Film Premiere

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    “The Planet is Literally Burning” – Kate Raworth on ‘Doughnut Economics’

    “My problem when I was at Oxford was I tried way too hard and I was constantly trying to work and I just burned out spectacularly”

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    Another small step for man: Are the aims behind NASA’s plans to send astronauts back to the moon purely scientific?

    TikTok as therapy: The uptick of mental health on TikTok

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Culture
·18th November 2022

Soft-boys to Soft-men: Arctic Monkeys mature with classy new album ‘The Car’

Joe Wald
It’s official, Alex Turner has murdered rock. With the remorselessness and nauseating perversion of a Michael Myers Halloween rampage, Turner...
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Pink
·5th March 2021

Pop in a Pandemic: Jenny Scoones on her new single ‘Always Known’

Timea Iliffe
Image description: a picture of Jenny and a cat at home CW: transphobia The Oxford Student spoke to Jenny Elizabeth...
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Cavernzz
Culture
·6th February 2019

Meet Cavernzz: bedroom pop artist on influences, authenticity and Milton Keynes

Georgina Quach
Deftly hushed, confessional and yet timid, Cavernzz’ woozy bedroom pop sits on the fringes of collective security—drawn from the quiet,...
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Life
·2nd May 2018

Kylie Minogue’s Golden: A wholesome new direction for the queen of pop

Imogen Lawlor
The title of Kylie Minogue’s latest album ‘Golden’ undoubtedly reflects the sentiments of the majority of its tracks: warm, wholesome...
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Life
·8th August 2017

Live Review: Frank Ocean at Lovebox Festival

Alex Oscroft
On the day I saw Frank Ocean at Lovebox Festival in London, the news came through that a California judge...
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Life
·22nd February 2017

Meet the locals: an interview with Be Good

Madeleine Taylor
“We go through different pairs of words, but for me at the moment I think of it as messy R&B”,...
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Life
·21st January 2017

Review: I See You – The xx

Madeleine Taylor
‘’Cause I couldn’t care less / If they call us reckless’. Accompanied by blasts of garish horns and a skittering...
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Life
·2nd November 2016

Eighties dance-pop icon Pete Burns has died

Pete Burns, the famously flamboyant singer of eighties dance-pop band ‘Dead or Alive’ has died at 57 after a heart...
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Life
·10th February 2016

Can’t buy me love?

Freddie Hinds
Why the Beatles Still Deserve our Attention On 24th December last year, the Beatles released their back catalogue onto several...
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Life
·29th October 2014

Fast-rising Rockers Eliza and the Bear talk success, songwriting and opening for Paramore

Jessy Parker Humphreys
Even if you have not heard of Eliza and the Bear, you are likely to have listened to them due...
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Gen Z
·22nd September 2021

Oxford’s new Taylor Swift Society: You Belong with Them

Andrew Wang
Image Description: a picture of Taylor Swift, forming a heart around her eye with her hands.   It’s fall again,...
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Culture
·31st July 2020

Trans Pop is Future Pop: Jenny Scoones on her new EP ‘Woman’

Lauren Shirreff
Image description: A picture of Jenny on a blue background. CN: Transition and transphobia. I first met Jenny Scoones on...
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Life
·9th September 2018

My Mind Makes Noises – Pale Waves – Album Review

Connor Thirlwell
I couldn’t tell you that I was turned-on by the idea of Pale Waves when I first heard them on...
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Jorja Smith at the O2, Oxford
Life
·21st February 2018

Gig Review: Jorja Smith @ The O2 Academy

Alex Oscroft
“This is a new song,” Jorja Smith half-giggles into the mic. “It’s about how shit the government is.” The crowd...
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Life
·14th May 2017

Review: What Now, Sylvan Esso

Erin Melton
Sylvan Esso’s newest album “What Now,” released 28 April, continues the relaxed pop vibes of their 2014 self-titled debut album....
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Life
·7th February 2017

‘I give you power, I can take it away’: pop’s protest against Trump

Madeleine Taylor
How has the music world reacted to President Donald Trump? ‘Bigly’, you might say. Music has always been revolutionary. Even...
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Life
·18th November 2016

Interview: The Japanese House

Rowan Ferguson
The Japanese House, interviewed by Rowan Ferguson & Aoife de Bhál. Amber Bain, aka The Japanese House, is on the way...
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Life
·24th February 2016

Album Review: ANTI – Rihanna

Katie Collins
After an accidental leak last week, Rihanna’s long-awaited eighth studio album ANTI dropped on music streaming service Tidal, going platinum...
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Life
·8th February 2016

Beyoncé drops black power anthem like no other

Leila Parsa
‘I came to slay, bitch.’ And slay she did. Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past 24...
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