Get a free Gigulate account now Login Signup
×

Join Gigulate,
it's free!

Start tracking your favourite bands and get access to automagical music news!
or login
RSS

Every story, every source. Never miss a thing.

Memphis Music Hall of Fame readies to induct 25 legends

4173 days ago
USA Today MusicElvis Presley, Otis Redding, Jerry Lee Lewis and Booker T. among tonight's inaugural honorees. more info

Flume – Holdin On

4208 days ago
Discobelle.netGenre-bending Sydney producer Harley Streten aka Flume recently shared a new single, “Holdin On” through his soundcloud page. The track features a soulful blend of synth stabs and big bass accompanied by an Otis Redding vocal sample resulting i... more info

New band of the day: Monsta (No 1,379)

4209 days ago
Guardian MusicFrom smooth yacht-rock to brutally efficient brostep soul – what exactly has happened to the boys from Palladium?Reading this on mobile? Click here to listenHometown: London.The lineup: Rufio, Rocky and Skaar.The background: Nice to see a couple of... more info

Why we are watching: Kristina Train

4282 days ago
Guardian MusicThe 30-year-old singer who you are going to be hearing a lot more fromWarm smile, scary bracelet. That's how you've got to be if you come from the land of Aretha Franklin, Tammy Wynette and Gladys Knight.So she's a southerner? "I'm the girl who falls... more info

Amy Winehouse: in her own words

4302 days ago
Guardian MusicIn a previously unseen interview from 2006, Amy Winehouse shared her love for Sarah Vaughan, gospel music and the Shangri-Las – as well as recalling her first big breakOn her musical evolutionWhen I was younger, I didn't really listen to a lot of s... more info

Scene report: German music now

4329 days ago
Guardian MusicFollowing our potted history of German pop, our journey through the sounds of Europe continues as Wyndham Wallace introduces the acts making waves in his adopted countryReading this on a mobile? Click here to view videoGermany is the world's third bi... more info

A History of Soul: Otis Redding

4353 days ago
WFMU's Beware of the Blogby Thomas Michalski Live Music Show - Otis Redding 14 video clips of raw power with the ultimate soul-punk backed up by tightness from The Bar Kays, The Mar Keys and Booker T. & The MGs. Also includes his Monterey... more info

Booker T & the MGs: 'It was just a lucky marriage of us four' – a classic interview from the vaults

4371 days ago
Guardian MusicFollowing the death of Donald 'Duck' Dunn, read an interview with Booker T and the MGs by Barney Hoskyns from Mojo in August 2001, now available courtesy of Rock's Backpages – the world's leading archive of vintage music journalismIf ever there was... more info

Donald 'Duck' Dunn

4372 days ago
Guardian MusicBass guitarist with Booker T & the MGs, the band at the heart of the Stax soul soundThe soul music created at Stax Records in Memphis, Tennessee, was an indelible part of the soundtrack of the 1960s. The magisterial and hypnotic bass-guitar lines on ... more info

Memphis soul bassist 'Duck' Dunn dies

4372 days ago
CNN ShowbizDonald "Duck" Dunn, the bass player who laid the musical floor beneath soul legends like Booker T. and the MGs, Sam and Dave and Otis Redding, has died at age 70, his family announced Sunday. more info

Recent news history

Recent postings in the past month

30 days ago
Yesterday
Build a customised Otis Redding widget

Explore

About

What's Gigulate?

  • Hype bands? Never heard of 'em? Find out who's talking about the hottest bands before you head to the gig.
  • The sharpest music minds plugged into the world's greatest music machine.
  • Find out more