Music

Beyond litter and emissions: The environmental costs of loud sound at music festivals

The music festivals of the summer have packed up and moved on. Stages and sound systems have been dismantled, litter cleared, and land reseeded.
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Why ‘No Bad Memories’ is my album of the year

I didn't expect how perfectly my personal happiness would fit an album so preoccupied with the sounds of old advertisements and obsolete electronics, filled with the relentless optimism of a world that believed the future could only get better. 
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CUSP’s Dan Stock on the memories behind ‘English Country’

On Friday, CUSP, a Milton Keynes-based indie rock band, released their debut album, English...
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The rise of the pop girlie: Marketing mediocrity or feminism in action?  

“GIRLS INVENTED PUNK ROCK, NOT ENGLAND”: so reads the iconic green T-shirt of Sonic Youth legend Kim Gordon. The slogan stands in defiance of an unfortunate truth in the music industry: femininity and credibility often exist in contention with one another.
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Oxford can’t afford to lose clubs like Cellar

The planned closure of Cellar is a warning sign of our city's creeping gentrification

Houghton Festival 2017 Review

The brand new Houghton Festival impresses, delights and transcends the music it focuses on all together.

Hannah Kessler: “Music is an incredibly therapeutic thing”

Lily Begg discusses subverting the male gaze, empowerment and juggling Oxford life with up and coming musician Hannah Kessler

Grief pushes music to its conceptual limits

Mount Eerie's 'A Crow Looked at Me' may seem like an abstract experiment, but with its personal context it is deeply affecting

“A fresh and beautiful contemporary jazz repertoire”

Ela Portnoy is overwhelmed by The Oxford Gargoyles' a capella performance at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe

“U2 still deserves a place at the forefront of modern rock”

For Calum Bradshaw , U2 can still deliver a world class performance

Gangster rap with glimmers of uniqueness

Big Fish Theory is a refreshing spin on modern rap music that shows there is plenty of talent and potential within Vince Staples

Awkward singing and timely rain from Radiohead in Manchester

Thomas Athey finds last minute venue changes are easily overcome by Radiohead

Edinburgh Fringe: In the Pink preview

Thomas Athey looks ahead to Oxford's acapella efforts at the Edinburgh Fringe

“Unapologetically Blink-182”

Abby Ridsdill-Smith is a fan of the band's deluxe edition of 'California'

Traditional folk music at its experimental best

Ben Ray finds Miranda Sykes’ latest release reaches dizzying new heights

Music without borders : Misogyny and Bollywood

Jeevan Ravindran exposes the contradictions within Hindi cinema

Music without Borders: Welsh national music

Theo Davies-Lewis explores the importance of music to his homeland

“Guitar legends of the Sahara”

Ellen Peirson-Hagger finds a refreshing new perspective in Tinariwen's concert at the O2 Academy

Taking up Tupac’s “thug poet” mantle

'You Only Live 2wice' is Freddie Gibbs living up to his predecessors, says Jonathan Egid

The comeback kids keep ‘lad rock’ alive

Kasabian's 'For Crying Out Loud' is the Leicester band at their best, says Matt Roller

The Japanese House – “I’ve never wanted fame at all”

Ellen Peirson-Hagger interviews Amber Bain on her moody indie project

A titanic record for all the wrong reasons

Will Cowie finds Gorillaz's Humanz to be soulless and robotic

“A captivating, quasi-religious experience”

Clara Dijkstra reviews the new London Grammar single, 'Truth is a Beautiful Thing'

Pop is dead—long live pop!

Alex Waygood on how Ed Sheeran represents the decline and fall of the charts
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