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Live review: The Lovely Eggs, Cellar

Ellen Peirson-Hagger looks under the shell of The Lovely Eggs

Getting it right: political commentary and rap

David Lawton highlights the political potential of rap, and consigns folk and punk to the dustbin of history

A dark trend in music documentaries

David Lawton argues that the rebirth of the tortured artist’s image in music documentaries exploits pain

A night at the clubs: Two Doors Down @ The Cellar

Two Doors Down's indie extravaganza leaves James Lamming hungry for more

Folk, it is a-changin’

Daniel Villar discusses Bob Dylan’s legacy and the folk revival

Review: Michael Kiwanuka at the O2 Academy

Ellen Peirson-Hagger is enthralled by the variety of musical influences in Kiwanuka’s endearing set

OxFolk review: ‘The Ties that Bind’

Ben Ray looks at Mawkin's latest album, The Ties that Bind

Live review: Ward Thomas at the O2 Academy

Coming onto the stage with an undeniably acoustic sound, Ward Thomas feel strangely out of place with the Bullingdon’s notorious grimy vibe. Somewhere behind...

A treasure trove of unrequited love

Unrequited love has become something of a hobby. I say ‘love’ for ease and aesthetics— ‘infatuations borne out of lust, boredom and having read...

America’s poet laureate: Bob Dylan

Phylis Stein on the sublime lyrics that make Dylan a Nobel Prize winner

OxFolk Reviews: ‘Cycle’

If I’m being honest, Lady Maisery’s new album ‘Cycle’ came as a surprise to me not because of it’s accomplishment and beauty, but because...

OxFolk Reviews: ‘Old Adam’

“How do stories make us who we are?” This is the surprisingly philosophical question posed to us by Fa Hield in the introduction to...

Willie Healey: star in the making

A true Oxford homeboy, most of Willie J Healey’s music videos comprise, as someone at Zappi’s once told me, of him “pissing around on...

OxFolk Review: ‘II’

Ben Ray discusses 'II', the latest album from Moore Moss Rutter

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