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.

50 great moments in jazz: Anthony Braxton swims against the tide

4972 days ago
Guardian MusicA Coltrane devotee who liked Brubeck's Take Five? Anthony Braxton has always been at odds with orthodox jazz thinkingIn the 1980s, after a period of eclipse by fusion, more traditional approaches to jazz were in resurgence – a subject I'll return t... more info

Milton Babbitt obituary

5045 days ago
Guardian MusicAvant-garde American composer who championed electronic musicMilton Babbitt, who has died aged 94, was one of the most eminent, and controversial, American composers of the 20th century. Deeply influenced by the 12-tone music of Arnold Schoenberg, wh... more info

Henryk Górecki obituary

5124 days ago
Guardian MusicPolish composer best known for his Symphony of Sorrowful SongsIn the mid-1990s, the Third Symphony, the Symphony of Sorrowful Songs, by Henryk Górecki, who has died aged 76, was one of the best-known works by a living composer. It uses simple, s... more info

Where are the classics on mufin.com?

5187 days ago
Guardian MusicThe wondrous recommendation site couldn't cope with my requests for artists like Lachenmann, Stockhausen or AyresI've done it. I've broken mufin.com, the music recommendation site. All you do is type in one of the big names of contemporary music and ... more info

Paul Morley on music: Stockhausen

5206 days ago
Guardian MusicThe plastic present is about to become reacquainted with a 'musical miniature of the cosmos'There is a budget-price edition of Karlheinz Stockhausen's Mantra, for two pianos, percussion – sometimes crotales, which are essentially antique cymbals â... more info

The flat-pack Stockhausen

5246 days ago
Guardian MusicOne of Karlheinz Stockhausen's most intriguing ideas was for a piece musicians could complete themselves. Christopher Fox took up the composer's self-assembly challengeIn the summer of 1963, Karlheinz Stockhausen came up with a project for a composit... more info

Move over Simón Bolívar: a new youth orchestra is on its way | Tom Service

5351 days ago
Guardian MusicThe famous Venezuelan musicians are growing long in the tooth – and there's a new generation waiting in the wingsThe Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra is youthful no longer – as I was saying last week in my review of their concert wit... more info

Elektronische musik: a guide to krautrock

5351 days ago
Guardian MusicIt might be more than 30 years old, but krautrock, Germany's experimental music from the 1970s, still has a freshness that sixth-generation British indie bands can't matchIt began out of nothing, was given a joke name, and became the pop influence du... more info

Tony Kushner's Angels in America: the opera

5358 days ago
Guardian MusicTony Kushner's harrowing play Angels in America became a film, a TV series and finally an opera. As it makes its UK debut, John O'Mahony meets the playwright – and one very enterprising composer, Péter EötvösIt's almost 17 years since... more info

The Darmstadt school's British invasion

5397 days ago
Guardian MusicAlthough once home to Stockhausen and Boulez, it took two English composers to drag Darmstadt music school out of its rut. Christopher Fox examines their legacyIn many ways, Darmstadt is a typical German city. It has a local beer, an opera house, par... more info

Recent news history

Recent postings in the past month

30 days ago
Yesterday
Build a customised Karlheinz Stockhausen 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