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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Influential bassist Tony Levin speaks with NPR's Eric Deggans about Levin's work with the experimental rock band King Crimson. From Peter Gabriel's 'Sledgehammer' to King Crimson, Tony Levin's bass ...

Like the live adventures from all their other eras, King Crimson have well documented the octet/septet incarnation that, at eight years, ranks as the group's longest-lived lineup. Music Is Our Friend ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...