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...
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...
Review: Kanye West – ‘Jesus is King’
It’s
that time of the year again when Kanye West, armed with another batch of
outrageous quotes (“God is using me to show off”) and the...
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...
Review: Ritual Union Festival Ranked
Ritual Union Festival delivered the goods for the third year on the trot, bringing 45 bands down to Cowley Road for a day of...
Review: Ritual Union Festival Overview
We all know Oxford, right? Home to grandiose museums, lavish theatres, all sorts of student shenanigans and exhibitions, it is a cultural hotbed for...
