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Highway Elegies: Living Bruce Springsteen’s ballads

A tantalising balance of folk, country, soul, and rock ’n’ roll, Bruce Springsteen is a master storyteller. His songs are ballads in the strictest sense of the word: almost...

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Jacob Collier is on scintillating form at Love Supreme

Despite being a seven-time Grammy Award winner, it was only at the 2025 Love...

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In More, Pulp aren’t just trading on nostalgia – they’re fresh

In a year where many are talking about one Britpop band in particular –...

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Live review: Biffy Clyro at London’s O2 arena

Romilly Mavin is impressed by Biffy Clyro’s mingling of energy and intimacy at the close of their UK tour

Live review: Fickle Friends at the Bullingdon

Akshay Bilolikar escapes rainy Oxford for sunny Los Angeles with Fickle Friends

OxFolk reviews: ‘Here We Go 1, 2, 3’

“Here we go, 1, 2, 3, hold your hands out to me…” so opens this beautifully formed album ‘Here We Go 1, 2, 3’...

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...

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...

Preview: Tremor at Modern Art Oxford

Edward Mair looks forward to Tremor, a space where different genres and arts collide

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

“Smash the shit out of it”

Ellen Peirson-Hagger talks to The Big Moon about their manic tour

Review: Common People Oxford

Oxford’s May Bank Holiday festival offering is sun-drenched and musically eclectic

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Music

Highway Elegies: Living Bruce Springsteen’s ballads

Jacob Collier is on scintillating form at Love Supreme

In More, Pulp aren’t just trading on nostalgia – they’re fresh

Bonding, identities, and connections through music

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