With their third album, Lizard, Fripp augmented a transitional line-up with top-drawer jazz players to create an epic, sprawling, chaotic clash of styles veering from sparse, cinematic moodiness to ...

Guitarist and singer Jakko Jakszyk talks with rare enthusiasm about King Crimson, but it's to be expected: he'd been a fan for four decades prior to becoming a full-time member in 2013. "It's all too ...

What is a perfect band? Is it one like The Beatles, whose universal influence is nearly matched by their timeless popularity and maintained by their four distinct, iconic and deified personas? Is it ...

On this special edition of Something Else! Reviews' One Track Mind, we hand the reins over to Adrian Belew, guitarist with King Crimson. Discover why he likes working with younger musicians (no ...

BEAT, the quartet of ’80s King Crimson members Adrian Belew and Tony Levin plus guitarist Steve Vai and TOOL drummer Danny Carey, are on tour now, playing King Crimson songs from 1981’s Discipline, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Chiu is a freelance music writer based in New York. The veteran King Crimson drummer Pat Mastelotto had an earlier, ...

In 1981, bassist Tony Levin played his first gig with a newly formed lineup of King Crimson at Moles, a small club in Bath, England. Levin remembers that the band, which was billed as Discipline at ...

Méllisande will be singing folk songs at the GE Theatre on Friday. Some of the songs date to the 16th century, but the ...

Adrian Belew laughed as he told fans at Beat’s show Sunday night, Oct. 27, at Detroit’s Masonic Cathedral Theatre, that “We had a plan — let’s play the easiest songs we can play. “That plan didn’t ...

You probably know the old adage about assumptions. After seeing the current (slightly fluid) King Crimson lineup twice every time the perennially groundbreaking group made it to North American shores ...

‘The Wizard of Oz’ and ‘The Princess Bride’ will also screen during reopening week. Concertgoers desperate for the return of live music: you are not alone, but the wait is almost over. “We’re so ...

Adrian Belew's all-star tribute to '80s-era King Crimson got underway Thursday night at San Jose Civic in California. Beat also includes his long-time former King Crimson bandmate Tony Levin, Steve ...