Friday 21st November 2025

Music

Little Kitchen’s Christ Church concert is exactly what you need this Oxmas

Little Kitchen, an Oxford-based music collective, will be performing in Christchurch this Thursday. It's the perfect Oxmas treat.

The power of the playlist

"These ten precious songs ... will become a time capsule"

‘Like the edge of a knife’: Ukrainian pianist Lubomyr Melnyk brings his ‘Continuous Music’ to Oxford

Ukrainian pianist Lubomyr Melnyk took the stage in Magdalen College Chapel and the Holywell...

Review: Hill and Harmer’s A Life in Song – the strange world of Lieder

"poetry told across language through performance and music"

Review: Vampire Weekend

Nine years after they last took Muswell Hill by storm, indie giants Vampire Weekend played a two-night engagement at London’s Alexandra Palace as part...

How the Grinch Stole the Christmas Number One

Many years ago, all the good girls and boys of the United Kingdom would get a special present from Santa every Christmas – a...

Review: Fine Line – Harry Styles

Two years since his solo debut, Harry Styles is back with his second album, Fine Line. Styles’ self-titled album in 2017 had to fight...

Me Too and Music

TW: Sexual assault, r*pe When I was first asked to be involved with the discussion of Me Too and music, my first thought was that...

Review: I Was Meant to Love – Leon C

Why all new music lovers should be listening to Leon C

Review: Spector at The Bullingdon

9pm, The Bullingdon, a Tuesday evening. Those three ingredients are pretty much guaranteed either to produce an awful or a brilliant night. Thankfully for...

Review: MAGDALENE – FKA Twigs

A delve into the concept of an unmissable new album

Novelty Music is Real Music

To call the summer of 2018 memorable would probably be an understatement: there was the heatwave, the subsequent hours spent in beer gardens, and, perhaps most...

Boyfriend vs. Genghis Khan

Back in February of this year, Ariana Grande seemed on top of the world, or at least the music industry. With the release of an...

Philip Glass Ensemble – satisfying constancy

Clare: On the 30th October, Philip Glass and the Philip Glass Ensemble performed Music with Changing Parts. Due to illness, Glass himself was unable to...

Review: Another Sky

“Being punched in the face then kissed tenderly”: this is how Another Sky described their music, and after seeing them live I’m inclined to...

Interview: The Sherlocks

On 4th October, Yorkshire indie band The Sherlocksreleased their second album, Under Your Sky, opening at a brilliant Number 13 on the Official Album Charts. Simone...

Review: JOHN

I don’t really know what to expect when I walked in the Wheatsheaf. Music-wise, JOHN is thrashing and discordant, and I was curious to...

EGG – A Musical Parable

In early September, the IOC published an article celebrating the life of ‘Father of Modern Olympic Games’ Pierre Coubertin. Whilst highlighting his struggles in launching a...

Review: Amber Run

Amber Run, the indie rock band from Nottingham, are on their first ever world tour. After their Oxford gig, which happened on 18thOctober, they’re...

Interview: Another Sky

“How would you describe your music to those who haven’t heard it before? -  Being punched in the face then kissed tenderly.” Another Sky, a London-based...

Nu Jazz – How it Began

The evolution of jazz into the present day

Making the Case for Bieber

I doubt you could find many people today who would not recognize those iconic opening notes of, statistically, the most hated song ever recorded – even...

Review: Don’t Call Me Angel

Why Ariana, Miley and Lana's latest release is little more than a cash cow

Review: The Leisure Society at the Bullingdon

Brian Eno likes the Leisure Society. So does Ray Davies. These facts alone are reason enough to persuade anybody to go and see a...

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