What’s On This Week: 1st week
What’s on this week Sunday 1st Week (April 21st), 10:00am – 11:30am Still Sundays A chance to relax at the Pitts Rivers Museum – a space to draw, study or stand and…
Review: James Blake – ‘Overgrown’
With his first album released two years ago, there is a sense running throughout of James Blake’s awareness of the decline of dubstep yet, at the same time, his awareness…
Album Review: Bonobo – The North Borders
Brighton-based producer Simon Green, also known as Bonobo, has carved his own niche as a pioneer and exemplar for downtempo electronic music over thirteen years of quality output. His third…
Album review: John Grant – Pale Green Ghosts
Pale Green Ghosts openly displays just how awful much of John Grant’s life has been. As an artist he’s obviously had his fair share of heartbreak, but he’s also been…
The Heligoats – Back to the Ache
The new album from The Heligoats, Back to The Ache, opens with ‘Good Morning’, simple but poignant lyrics and reverbed electric guitar spread out over wandering acoustic and piano chords. I…
Why is music so addictive? We have our ancestors to blame…
Trying to get a foot in the door of the music industry is a notoriously bad career move. It is a path that resigns the majority to a few years…
There is a Sound that Never Goes Out: Oxford’s 80s club night returns
Have you lately taken to wearing ludicrously oversized denim jackets? Formed an unhealthy obsession with shoulder pads? Gobstopper-sized gold earrings been sending you into inappropriate paroxysms of ecstasy? Not to…
The music of a people who will not be slaves
Music has perhaps thrown up the biggest controversy over the death of Thatcher, but we all need to move on.…
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