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.

Gerry Diver: The Speech Project – review

5038 days ago
Guardian Music(One Fine Day)The idea is certainly original: take a series of interviews with well-known Irish musicians, and then mix short excerpts of speech with instrumental work that follows the rhythms of a spoken phrase. The interviewees include Christy Moor... more info

Hail, Hail, Rock'n'Roll

5059 days ago
Guardian MusicAs this column ends, I thought it appropriate to talk about rock's profound sense of beginning – its power and possibility, its surging promiseThis column began five years ago, born, in a roundabout way, out of a friendship with my editor, Michael.... more info

Gary Barlow – review

5096 days ago
Guardian MusicRoyal Albert Hall, LondonWho, having witnessed Gary Barlow lose the solo chart battle to Robbie Williams in the late 1990s, could have imagined the resurgence of recent years? Probably not even Barlow, who spends a good part of this sold-out show –... more info

Old music: Van Morrison – Caravan

5101 days ago
Guardian MusicA positively cherubic Van Morrison struts like a rooster, celebrating the free world of the radioIt's a "joyous shot at how things ought to be" – getting together, staying late, to talk, to sing. The song lifts the spirit. Van Morrison is perhaps b... more info

Old music: Patti Smith – Gloria

5102 days ago
Guardian MusicA cover of a 60s staple helped set in motion a musical revolution in mid-70s New York"Jesus died for somebody's sins, but not mine …" The first line of Gloria, the first song on what was Patti Smith's first album.Smith was a virtual unknown in the ... more info

Chris Martin and Jonny Buckland – review

5107 days ago
Guardian MusicSt John-at-Hackney church, LondonDuring the opening chords of The Scientist, the tinkles from the balcony become too much. Chris Martin stops the song, picks out the woman rattling a tambourine and launches a characteristically good-humoured rant abo... more info

Andrew Bird's sonic arboretum reminds me of the natural music we are losing

5108 days ago
Guardian MusicThe music of the fields and the woodlands, the lapwings and bunting, is giving way to the sounds of the city, the new housing estates, the motorwaysIn Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art this December, there will sprout up a peculiar kind of forest:... more info

Soul Serenade: The Band (With Van Morrison), “Caravan”

5108 days ago
PopdoseOn a Thanksgiving night 35 years ago tomorrow, the Band bid farewell at The Last Waltz. Among the show's many highlights was Van Morrison's scintillating rendition of "Caravan." more info

Chieftains team up with Bon Iver and the Decemberists

5110 days ago
Guardian MusicKings of Irish trad-folk celebrate 50th anniversary by recording album with indie artistsThe Chieftains will celebrate their 50th anniversary with an album of collaborations. Voice of Ages will include songs recorded with Paolo Nutini, Bon Iver and I... more info

Watch Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds On Later Live... With Jools Holland

5110 days ago
Stopcryingyourheartout.comTonight, 22:00 on BBC Two and BBC HD (UK Only)Joining Jools on this last programme in the current series are: LA's own alternative rock/funk superstars Red Hot Chili Peppers with songs from their tenth studio album I'm With You, and Iceland's biggest... more info

Recent news history

Recent postings in the past month

30 days ago
Yesterday
Build a customised Van Morrison 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