Tag: music

"In a labyrinth of musical opportunities, I have you covered to discover the greatest sounds of Oxford."

Everything about Chappell Roan is DIY. A glint of becoming shines through her music and style. Not only is the 24-year old’s look intended...

We can only hope the decision results in a further backlash against the culture fostered by the Blurred Lines decision and a reduction in the number of frivolous lawsuits against musicians. They are bad for artists, bad for all genres of music, and fundamentally, bad for creativity.

‘Harry’s House’ is a house of several rooms. Of screaming elation, beautiful minutia, and doomed love, all of which make for a complex and emotive listen.

The Smile is not Radiohead; they have a new name, a new line-up, and appear to see themselves to be doing something artistically different

In a recent interview with the Sunday Times, musician Sam Fender discussed the importance of singing in a Geordie accent for his latest album...

"Rock and roll and academia has never been the most compatible pairing."

"Plastic Beach serves as a poetic, wonderfully produced and musically brilliant reminder that the world is slowly ending, everything is artificial and no one seems to be doing very much about it at all."

The speaker in Anna Cowan’s poem herself undertakes a myth-making activity in playing her harp. “It is time”, she declares, as she unshackles the...

‘I love selling out’ declared Charli XCX when speaking to NPR about Crash, released in March, a project which sees her lean into mainstream pop, ironically playing the part of an industry ‘sell-out’.

"In Chloë and the Next 20th Century, Tillman succeeds spectacularly at creating a new world out of old characters."

Where do we come from? I mean, where does it all come from, all this? – the books that we read or skim; the...

Aarthee Pari discusses the meaning of the term 'industry plant' and its validity as a critique of musicians.

"This was the second of three successive sold-out nights for the four-piece at the London venue, and it proved one for us and the remaining five thousand people in attendance to remember."