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...
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: City and Colour – ‘A Pill for Loneliness’
Dallas Green, the man behind City and Colour, can quite fairly be called an old hand now, having been cracking out albums for 15...
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...
Review: Under Your Sky
‘I want to wake up with you in Wales again and watch that sun go down,’ are the words sung by Kiaran Crook, lead...
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...
Interview: JOHN
A chat with up and coming band JOHN about Punk, brutalism, and their new album: Out Here on the Fringes
W. G. Still: The Forgotten American Tchaikovsky
At one point America's most successful symphonist, lauded for his ode to forgotten black soldiers, few today have heard of W. G. Still.
According to The Cambridge History of American Music, “No composer plummeted from authentic prominence to an eclipse more total than endured by William Grant Still.”
100% That Bitch
It was May Day afternoon when I clicked play on the movie ‘Someone Great’ on Netflix. It had come out a few days ago,...
Festival Review: We Out Here
Jazz, soul, hip hop, afro, electronica, and house - a look at the festival made for everyone
Stilettos, Broken Bottles and Teenage Heartbreak: A Love Letter to Robyn’s Dancing on my Own
When I was sixteen, I was in love for the first time.
It was a boy from a school near mine, who I’ll refer to...
