Tuesday, May 6, 2025

Music

Review: Oxford Opera Society enters the bullring for Bizet’s ‘Carmen’

If you recall Pixar’s UP, a comedy where an old man balloons with his dog to South America, a funny moment appears in Carl’s morning routine: the agonizingly slow...
Music Eleanor Hamilton Clark and Francois Cloete -

Your essential guide to the music of May Day

May Day: It’s unique, convivial and quintessentially Oxford. Only once a year does the...
Music Daniel Burns -

A review of The Crux: Djo turns music into a profession

In his new album, The Crux, Djo, aka Joe Keery, perfectly inhabits and evokes...
Music Tom Cockburn -

Fontaines DC and the (re) rise of indie Sleaze

I recently took to my finsta to post a story claiming that the Fontaines...
Culture Kiaya Phillips -
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Daft Punk’s ‘Random Access Memories’: A Tenth Anniversary Retrospective

'What is there in our current pop landscape that could possibly have its roots in Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories?'

Ready For Takeoff: My Little Airport and the Hong Kong Indie Scene

Hong Kong indie, like the city, has plenty of gas left in the tank.

The Paradise Bangkok Molam International Band – Planet Lam review

"An exemplary of the international force of genre-bending, experimental music, this album represents a kind of music in which boundaries are transgressed and influences intermingled, creating an intensely enjoyable, diverse listening experience."

Sam Smith’s Gloria is Queer, Controversial Perfection

"For the queer community as a whole, this album is a welcome addition to queer culture"

Florence and The Machine: Dance Fever Tour Review

"It takes a powerful vulnerability to shoulder the burdens and joys of helping others, through art or any other means. Welch does it beautifully"

Jockstrap Live at The Bullingdon

"I’m convinced they have one true goal... to ensure that you have an obscene amount of fun"

Voëlvry: South African’s Rock’n’Roll Revolution

"The Voëlvry artists clearly aimed to provide an example of a way to be both distinctly Afrikaans and disagree with the conservative government"

RUSH! Hour: Måneskin In Review 

"RUSH! is proof that Måneskin’s stratospheric rise to prominence is backed up by more than just sex appeal and the glitzy glamour of Eurovision."

In Conversation With Velvet

"If you haven’t heard of them, you should have."

Sound And Vision: Better Call Saul’s Perfect Montage

"The perfect song choice is instrumental in creating the perfect montage".

The Most Anticipated Albums of 2023

Maeve Hagerty looks to some of the most anticipated albums of 2023, from artists like Samia to A$AP Rocky.

The joy of Spotify’s Discover Weekly

Thomas Bristow talks through the beauty of Spotify's Discover Weekly interface, and how it has changed his music tastes.

Christine McVie: Fleetwood Mac’s rock ‘n’ roll romantic

"Charged with hope and joy, aching with romantic wisdom, [McVie's songs] are the songs of a woman who has lived and loved."

A rogue Vogue cover: Drake and 21 Savage’s IP gamble

What appears to have happened here is a calculated risk – a legal roll-of-the-dice for a (potentially larger) commercial gain.

I Hope You Fall In Love And I Hope It Breaks Your Heart

"Pasoori is more than just a catchy hit which broke out of Pakistan; it’s a beautiful and progressive statement of social and cultural values."

Muse ‘Will of The People’ Review : My expectations were low, and yet…

"Well done to the boys for trying to write about such a serious subject. I just wish the music didn’t sound like it belongs on Scooby Doo."

Copyright or copywrong: the Shape of You case and its implications

We can only hope the decision results in a further backlash against the culture fostered by the Blurred Lines decision and a reduction in the number of frivolous lawsuits against musicians. They are bad for artists, bad for all genres of music, and fundamentally, bad for creativity.

In Harry’s House, there’s room for the romantic

‘Harry’s House’ is a house of several rooms. Of screaming elation, beautiful minutia, and doomed love, all of which make for a complex and emotive listen.

The Smile’s “slightly crazed and uncertain landscape”

The Smile is not Radiohead; they have a new name, a new line-up, and appear to see themselves to be doing something artistically different

Music beyond the M6

In a recent interview with the Sunday Times, musician Sam Fender discussed the importance of singing in a Geordie accent for his latest album...
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