Were the Nazis on drugs?
The Nazi regime was permeated with drugs, from morphine to heroin, taken by almost everyone in the Reich, from soldiers to housewives. This shocking...
OxFolk reviews: ‘Cold Old Fire’
There aren’t many folk groups that can claim to have originated in an ‘experimental psychedelic folk punk duo’, but then again Lynched, the self-styled...
Review: Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life
Tilly Nevin laments on how the comeback of this warm and comedic TV stalwart fails to live up to the original series
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
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...
Review: In the Republic of Happiness
James Lamming enjoys a sometimes stilted production of a difficult play
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
Review: Jealous of Herself
Bessie Yuill is impressed and entertained by the accomplished acting and original music of this thought-provoking comedy
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...
Sci-fi review: Arrival
Jonnie Barrow finds Villeneuve’s latest release a true masterpiece in both performances and intellectual power
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
Review: Summer and Smoke
James Lamming is delighted by the best show he has seen in Oxford
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