Don’t disparage future garage
If you ask most people what the term ‘garage music’ means to them, you’ll either be met with a blank stare, an ‘I don’t really know’ or an explanation that…
Bastille interview – digging beneath the ashes of Pompeii
When your alarm clock fails on the morning of an interview, it’s hard to see it as a good omen. Waking up ten minutes before my scheduled phone call with…
Will you be my Valentune?
Sick of Marvin Gaye and Whitney Houston? OxStu Music has a playlist to help you enjoy/endure Valentine’s Day Bruce Springsteen – ‘Thunder Road’ Not only is this one of the…
Gwilym Simcock live review
Almost apologetically wandering out onto the stage, multiaward winning jazz pianist Gwilym Simcock cuts a rather unassuming figure. Barely acknowledging the audience, he wordlessly sits down down at the piano…
Unknown mortal Orchestra – II
On the band’s Facebook, an (ex-) fan commented that he loved the first album but was disappointed with II. He got a reply which said, “it’s cool man, I think…
Metal meets mainstream – Biffy Clyro: Opposites
I remember when I first went looking for Biffy Clyro albums in MusicZone. I walked up to the counter and asked the shop assistant if they had any al- bums…
Consulting the Oracle
Before Delphic’s new album Collections came out on the 28th January, the band had only released one misfiring Olympic single since 2010’s Acolyte. There’s a musical cliché that writing the second album is…
Between Rock and a Hard Piece
Orwellian might be the most abused literary adjective in use today, but George Orwell remains one of the most prescient writers of his age. He had an opinion on just…
