King Crimson — 13 Dec 2025
Trey Gunn celebrates his 65th birthday today. It’s 40 years since Trey attended the third Guitar Craft course at Claymont Court in West Virginia in May 1985, the beginning of a long musical association with Robert Fripp that includes The League of Crafty Guitarists, Sunday All Over The World, The Robert Fripp String Quintet, Sylvian & Fripp and King Crimson. His work with King Crimson...
King Crimson — 8 Dec 2025
Broken Wings 2025. Pat Mastelotto has just released a video from his 70th birthday bash in September. The full lineup of Mr Mister got together for a flawless 40th anniversary run through of their 1985 hit Broken Wings at Pat’s Thrak Shack Studios in Austin, Texas. Only the second time the band has reunited since their dissolution in 1990, and it’s turning into something of a birthday...
King Crimson — 5 Dec 2025
Hugh’s Archive Deep Dive: 16. Making a recent appearance in the archive and now looking like an art piece in its own right, the stencil plate used to spray paint the band’s name onto their equipment in the 1970s. Made from die-cut aluminium, it measures 14.5” x 9” and can be seen encrusted with numerous applications of black paint from its time in the hands of the Crimson road crew....
King Crimson — 26 Nov 2025
The Power To Believe Tour audio from Europe '03 is now available to stream exclusively in the @nugsnet app. Visit: nugs.net/KingCrimson Also available to download from dgmlive: King Crimson Europe 2003 King Crimson on tour in Europe, 2003 (photos: Bill Munyon). Featuring King Crimson's Double Duo lineup of Adrian Belew, Robert Fripp, Trey Gunn, and Pat Mastelotto, this tour...
King Crimson — 24 Nov 2025
Neuro Thela Talk. It’s a Mash Up Monday from Mr Stormy this week, as he plays with the multitrack tapes from the 80s Crimson recording sessions at Basing Street and Odyssey Studios. Taking elements from 1981's Discipline and the following year's Beat, this hybrid piece fuses signature riffs from Thela Hun Ginjeet, Elephant Talk and Neurotica, in what Sid Smith describes as: “a real Crimson...
King Crimson — 20 Nov 2025
King Crimson On Broadway. During Thanksgiving week in 1995, King Crimson began a five-night residency at the Longacre Theatre on West 48th Street in the heart of New York’s theatre district, playing Monday through Wednesday, taking Thursday off for the holiday, before returning by popular demand on Friday and Saturday. The band had flown in a week earlier, in a break from their tour, for...
King Crimson — 17 Nov 2025
King Crimson 2025 mixes. Several listeners to the 2025 edition of In The Wake of Poseidon have drawn attention to a number of differences in the new Steven Wilson mixes, in particular the flute passages in Cadence and Cascade played by Mel Collins, who was making his first contribution to a King Crimson record. Describing this in his notes, Sid Smith wrote: “At the other end of the emotional...
King Crimson — 29 Oct 2025
DinoCirkus. With a slight delay, here's this month's selection from Mr Stormy, who has ventured into different corners of the archive to bring us a unique take on the 1970 Wessex Studios recording of Cirkus, blended with 1994's Dinosaur from the THRAK recording sessions at Real World. From Sid Smith’s notes: “Both striking and slightly unsettling in places, especially when Gordon Haskell’s...
King Crimson — 23 Oct 2025
A reminder that Friday October 24 sees the release of new editions of In The Wake of Poseidon and Lizard. King Crimson’s second and third albums are remixed in Stereo, 5.1 Surround and Dolby Atmos by Steven Wilson, with Elemental Mixes by David Singleton. They also include Complete Recording Sessions and new sleeve notes by Sid Smith. The Lizard Elemental Mixes are also released on 200-gram...