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King Crimson's Jakko M. Jakszyk announces his new solo album will be released in June

King Crimson vocalist and guitarist Jakko Jakszyk's new solo album, Son Of Glen, is a compaion piece ot his acclaimed autobiography

Louder · Apr 25, 2025

“He was riding a bicycle on stage. I had my camera on a tripod and, gee, what a coincidence – almost every night he’d knock it over!” Tony Levin on the differences between Peter Gabriel and Robert Fripp

Veteran bassist Tony Levin, who met Peter Gabriel and Robert Fripp on the same day in 1976, compares and contrasts the two band leaders

Louder · Apr 9, 2025

“I wasn’t into King Crimson at all. Definitely not my kind of music”: How Andy Summers formed one of the 1980s’ most unlikely guitar partnerships with Robert Fripp – despite not being especially keen on some of his work

The worlds of stadium rock and prog came together for a time in the early 1980s, when The Police and King Crimson guitarists teamed up for a handful of avant-garde records

Guitar World · Apr 2, 2025

“I don’t think he ever got over being fired from King Crimson… but he went on to bigger, more financially successful things”: Peter Sinfield, the prog poet who gave voices to ELP, Roxy Music and many others

Lyricist, art director, producer and all-round creative who aimed to enlighten, provoke or stir died in November 2024 without being fully aware of what he’d achieved

Louder · Mar 5, 2025

“It is beautiful... it’s clean and it works great, and it does everything I need”: Steve Vai shows us just what’s needed to play ‘80s King Crimson as he offers tour of his custom-built BEAT rig

If the Fractal Axe-Fx III is doing the heavy lifting for the effects, Vai's indomitable tech, Doug MacArthur is the power behind the tone

MusicRadar · Feb 27, 2025

Jamie Muir obituary

Percussionist best known for his work with King Crimson and his delight in exploring the boundaries of improvisation

The Guardian - UK · Feb 26, 2025

Watch Toyah Willcox run her fingers seductively through Robert Fripp's hair as they perform Blondie's One Way Or Another

Warning: Includes bonus footage

Louder · Feb 25, 2025

“Peter Gabriel started singing over my solos. I was pissed off – ‘You’re singing on my bit!’ But that half-minute is probably our peak”: How Genesis made Supper’s Ready, arguably their greatest song

The band believe it’s the moment they began to become significant – and the construction of the 23-minute anthem for 1972’s Foxtrot was itself an epic experience

Louder · Feb 24, 2025

"He was such an interesting man. A funny combination of intensity and craziness." King Crimson's Jamie Muir remembered...

King Crimson biographer and Prog writer Sid Smith pays tribute to percussionist Jamie Muir, who died this weekend, aged 821

Louder · Feb 19, 2025

King Crimson percussionist Jamie Muir has died aged 82

Jamie Muir, who featured on King Crimson's Lark's Tongues In Aspic before leaving to become a Buddhist monk, has died

Louder · Feb 18, 2025