Indie-folk duo The Lumineers released their fifth studio album, titled “Automatic,” on February 14. The 11 track, 33-minute-long album is packed with hard-hitting lyricism that will resonate with a 2025 listener while maintaining the now-iconic — though maybe overplayed — sound that popularized the band. I have been excitedly anticipating “Automatic” since the single “Same […]

Describing herself as “allergic to genres,” Izzy Arthurs promises a heartfelt and exciting performance on the Proud Larry’s stage Saturday, Feb. 22, at 9 p.m., with Golden Teacher Society opening for Arthurs’ full band.  Arthurs is a senior singer-songwriter from Jackson, Tenn. She has played around Oxford on multiple occasions but primarily performs in her […]

The Oxford Fiber Festival, one of the South’s largest celebrations of the fiber arts, will kick off Friday and Saturday, Jan. 24 and 25, at the Powerhouse. The festival will include free and paid classes and a market filled with vendors selling supplies and finished products. Program director and coordinator Stacey Sanford explained the mission […]

If you were walking by the basement of Meek Hall yesterday, you would be met with many familiar sounds and sights: art students and professors were milling about, laying large sheets of paper on the concrete to dry with freshly printed images (and partaking in a hot-dog bar). But there would also be something that […]

Folk music group 49 Winchester will appear at The Lyric today, with doors opening at 7 p.m. and the band performing at 9 p.m. The group’s members are originally from Castlewood, Va., where lead singer and guitarist Isaac Gibson, lead guitarist Bus Shelton and bass player Chase Chafin began playing music together on Winchester Street. […]

“I never really wanted to go to an SEC school,” Betsy Vise said. “And then I toured Ole Miss.” Vise, who is from Tuscaloosa, Ala., also never saw herself as someone who would run a campaign for a homecoming election. But here she is, four years later, recently elected as the University of Mississippi’s Miss […]

Decked out in the familiar red, white and blue outfits that decorate game days, students attended the Student Activity Association’s 2024 fall concert on Sept. 22 in the Grove. Country music duo Maddie & Tae headlined the SAA 2024 fall concert alongside openers Annie Bosko and Just Jayne. As fans waved light up sticks in […]

Two-time National Book Award for Fiction-winner Jesmyn Ward will be in conversation with author LeVar Burton Saturday, Sept. 14 at the Mississippi Book Festival in Jackson, Miss.  Before she was a nationally acclaimed novelist, Ward was the 2010-2011 John and Renée Grisham Writer in Residence at the University of Mississippi.  The UM Masters of Fine […]

Country duo Maddie & Tae will headline the SAA Fall Concert at 5 p.m. Sept. 22, the Ole Miss Student Activity Association announced Thursday. The Country Music Association Awards-winning pair will perform the free-admission show in the Grove alongside fellow country acts Annie Bosko and Just Jayne. Funding for the concert and other SAA activities […]