Wednesday 2nd July 2025

Tag: music

Live review: Frank Turner at Oxford’s New Theatre

Sandy Elliot tries to rock out to Frank Turner & the Sleeping Souls in a venue not quite suited to rock 'n' roll antics

Top 10 songs of 2016

Dom Saad navigates a profusion of genres and artists in his picks of 2016

Review: D.I.D – The State We’re In

Natalia Bus feels the weight of D.I.D's long-awaited second album

OxFolk reviews: ‘a bit of blue’

There is something irresistibly lovable about Emily Maguire’s voice – it seems to swell silence the world around it, putting everything out of focus...

OxFolk reviews: Life in a Paper Boat

Ben Ray finds surprises in well-renowned folk musician Kate Rusby's new album Life in a Paper Boat

A pioneer erased: Sister Rosetta Tharpe

Alice Townson argues that the innovative rock and roll talent should be discussed as unique in her own right

OxFolk Reviews: ‘Vortex’

Ben Ray reviews Methera's new album 'Vortex', and is swept away by their live Corpus performance

Beyond anger: an evening with Frank Carter

Somehow we have got to a point where modern rock music feels as if it is becoming ever more sanitised and anodyne. The idea...

Remembering Laughing Lennie

The day before I left home to come to Oxford I found a hidden stash of my parents’ records in a cupboard in the...

Jon Boden at the O2: Painted Lady and other folk

Ben Ray discusses folk music legend Jon Boden's latest album Painted Lady and performance at the O2 Academy

OxFolk Reviews: Faustus – Death and other Animals

Ben Ray looks at the UK folk three-piece's latest release

The enduring value of Diamond Dogs

Matt Roberts crawls through the outpourings of Bowie praise to look at a long-forgotten album

Emotional electronica

Ellen Peirson-Hagger is touched by the humanity in James Blake’s live show, as, for once, the musician/producer emerges from behind his laptop

How to beat Fifth Week blues

Richard Birch and Cat Bean discuss nine ways to relax amidst the Oxonian madness

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