Music
Cherwell Introduces: Menu3
Joining me this week, are four members of Menu3: Nicole 2nd year biochemist/lead singer, Jude 2nd year chemist/bass player, Dan music student/drummer, and Marcus 2nd year biologist/keys player!
The Somerville...
American Odyssey- The world building of Lana del Rey’s music
"The past decade of Lana del Rey’s music has ventured from the deserts and neon-lights of Las Vegas to the streets of New York, Hollywood, and eventually rural California."
‘Spectacular throughout’: OUO at the Sheldonian- review
"The Sheldonian Theatre was treated on Saturday of 4th week to a display by some of the University’s best musical talent."
Five Songs for the Fifth Week Blues
"I believe that music makes a lot of things in life better. Fifth week at Oxford is no exception."
Forget Her Not: Rediscovering Women in Music- Week 1
At fifteen, I was fully and completely obsessed with the Californian soul/alternative R&B/jazz/funk band...
“Ladies, ladies, ladies, ladies” – the women at the forefront of lockdown releases
My initial self-isolation playlist contained what I thought
I would want to listen to during this indoor period - wistful folk-rock and simmering
ambient, the types...
“It’s Not a Phase, Mom!” – In Defence of Teenage Clichés
“I’m not like other girls,”
comes the mocking cry from my little sister across the kitchen table – a phrase
I’m pretty sure I’ve never actually...
Album Review: Hayley Williams’ ‘Petals for Armor’
In ‘Misery Business’, Paramore’s 2007 breakthrough hit, Hayley Williams claimed that “second chances, they don’t ever matter / people never change”. She’s been proving...
A Love Letter to Eurovision
I first discovered Eurovision in 2015. Idly flicking through the TV channels one fateful night, I stumbled onto the largest, glitteriest, and most confusing music competition on...
Review: Laura Marling’s ‘Song For Our Daughter’
Laura Marling’s seventh album, Song
For Our Daughter, was scheduled for release later this year. But, like many
other artists and entertainers,
the likes of Dua Lipa...
Modern Classical: Locked Down, Looking Back
Ludovico Einaudi is in lockdown. With time to think - to take a
walk in the fresh Mediterranean breeze - perhaps the Italian pianist could...
Review: Fiona Apple’s ‘Fetch The Bolt Cutters’
“All my particles disband and disperse/And I’ll be back in the
pulse.”
Music, to Fiona Apple, seems like a Schrodinger’s Cat kind of
paradox; it relies...
Review: Jerskin Fendrix’s ‘Winterreise’
Weird things are happening in the
world of pop music. Charli XCX and Carly Rae Jepsen have bounced back from
‘Boom Clap’ and ‘Call Me Maybe’...
Album Review: Rina Sawayama’s ‘SAWAYAMA’
Sofia Henderson celebrates a dynamic but thoughtful debut
A City Without Music?
Mila Ottevanger explores Oxford's place in music history...
Study music: ambience over annoyance
Jazz, techno, or lo-fi hip-hop beats, Emmaleigh Eaves asks what music best gets you into a productive zone and why...
Mad Dogs and Englishmen: 50 years on
In the spring of 1970, 50 years ago, a collection of
musicians underwent the Mad Dogs and Englishmen tour, which came to be immortalised
in a...
Say So, TikTok, and the ‘Viral Sleeper Hit’
William McCathie examines TikTok's hit-making capabilities
Music History: Django Reinhardt
George Newton reflects on the life of the jazz guitarist who defined an era.
