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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.

World music after ‘world music’

On the face of it, the term ‘world music’ is perhaps one of the...

NAZA: The most important film of the year

The filmmakers of NAZA clearly know that beyond physical distance, emotional distance is what allows the violence in Gaza to continue, and shows us just how easy it is to ignore what is going on right under our noses.

In conversation with John Kennedy, “one of the most trusted voices in music”

In a media landscape often dominated by gossip, rumours, and sometimes pure hate, it’s undeniably refreshing to listen to John, a man who never lost sight of what really matters.

Review: Love Is All You Need

This Danish rom-com is ripe with cliché, but lacks zest

Putting a new face to an old name

In trying to force the stage curtain to stay closed, you can inadvertently rip it down.

Some are more gender-equal than others

Sam Atwell examines George Orwell's chauvinism, and the women he loved and lost

Ashurbanipal: The Last Great Metalhead?

Joe Manktelow has a word with the creators of this student play's outlandish soundtrack

Jammin to… ‘Apricot’ by Basil Hogios

Antonia Whitton evangelizes about a fleeting moment of brilliance

Daft Punk in a funk

Sam Parsons is consumed with righteous anger at new single 'Get Lucky'

Preview: 1984

Tess Colley expects good things from this adaptation of Orwell's classic

Review: Life is a Dream

Laura Stacey finds sound jarring but performances strong in the Oxford Spanish Play

What are Wordsworth?

Sadie Levy Gale and Molly Brown experience 'performance poetry'

Hair-razing artwork

'Bold and Bald' A review of Adam Wozniak's Buster Renovatio.

Light-hearted Art

“Playing with shadows” A review of the Hayward Gallery's light show.

St. George’s Day playlist

Cherwell music get all patriotic with their latest offering...

Haven’t they Don well?

Ceri Fowler and Don Broco discuss everything from George Clooney to puppies...

Styles stays a-Float

Riaz Philips thinks this is a very inoffensive but listenable work...

We’re sick of Steve!

Jack Chown thinks that Steve has fallen into the 'Mumford and Sons trap' on his latest offering...

Review: The Book of Mormon

Frank Macpherson finds this show frankly boring

Spotlight on…1984

Evy Cavalla interviews the production company behind the dystopia

Review: The Smack Family Robinson

Like the Swiss Family Robinson, but with less of a message and much more smack

Review: The Place Beyond the Pines

It's Bradley Cooper who steals the show in this tale of fathers and sons

The Top 12: 2nd Week

Marc Pacitti looks ahead to the top cultural events of the week ahead.

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