King Crimson — 9 Jun 2026
This week in DGM World. The week got off to a fine start on Monday with some work to do at FX in Acton before heading to the Beat concert at the Eventim Apollo in Hammersmith. We were in town to pick up tape transfers for current and future projects, including half-inch reels of the first Robert Fripp and the League of Crafty Guitarists album, and DATs from early soundscapes tours, Sylvian/Fripp...
King Crimson — 8 Jun 2026
Join us in wishing a happy birthday to singer and guitarist Jakko Jakszyk. Jakko joined King Crimson as vocalist and second guitarist in 2014, having previously been a member of the 21st Century Schizoid Band from 2002 to 2004, playing the music of King Crimson alongside ex-members of the band. He went on to work with Robert Fripp and Mel Collins, as part of a Crimson ProjeKct, on the 2011 album...
King Crimson — 6 Jun 2026
Join us in celebrating Tony Levin’s birthday with a brand-new track featuring Tony’s Interludes recorded live on the King Crimson 2014 tour. Tony can be heard unaccompanied on upright bass during this nightly improvised section of the concert, live from Albany in New York. Sid Smith writes: “The abiding musicality of his tone and note choices feels appropriate to the moment, as he imbues...
King Crimson — 4 Jun 2026
Release date: September 25, 2026 Islands was the sole studio album by the Fripp, Collins, Burrell and Wallace line-up and the last to feature Peter Sinfield as a full creative partner. It was the record that closed one chapter of King Crimson history while quietly sketching the next. Historically, it captured the band in a brief but amazingly fertile formation, with material developed under...
King Crimson — 28 May 2026
Join us in wishing a happy birthday to Gavin Harrison. Gavin joined King Crimson in 2008 for its 40th-anniversary US tour dates, played on the King Crimson ProjeKct A Scarcity of Miracles in 2011 with Jakszyk, Fripp & Collins, and led the three drummers in the 2014-2021 lineup. He is also a highly respected drum educator and has recently returned from delivering a series of drum clinics in...
King Crimson — 25 May 2026
Frame By Frame (instrumental mix). This month Mr Stormy has selected a live instrumental mix of Frame By Frame from the band’s 50th anniversary A Celebration Tour. Recorded on September 8, 2019, at the Paramount Theater in Denver, Colorado. Sid Smith notes: “As with other such mixes, it takes the listener under the hood of the song that helped to define 1980s King Crimson. This reimagining...
King Crimson — 17 May 2026
The former Yes, King Crimson and Earthworks drummer is 77 today. Bill was in King Crimson from 1972-1974, 1981-1984 and 1994-1997. After retiring from music and hanging up his drumsticks in 2009 in order to pursue academia, he returned as a working player in 2022. The focus of Bruford’s musical work is now The Pete Roth Trio. The group recently took part in The Cruise To The Edge, and have just...
King Crimson — 12 May 2026
Before reclaiming the name King Crimson, what Robert Fripp called "the band he's spent four years getting ready for" and the one Adrian Belew called " probably the best band in the world at the time" was taking shape in small clubs in the Spring of '81 across Western Europe. Discipline at Moles Club in Bath, April 30, 1981. These six shows, which were performed under the name...
King Crimson — 8 May 2026
King Crimson 2014 NYC. Release date: July 10, 2026. The original live mixes enhanced from the multitracks recordings, showcase the band’s electric four-night run in September 2014 on 2 CDs or 2 LPs. For King Crimson, New York was never just a tour-stop – it was a recurring stage in the band’s mythology. Starting with the 1969 Fillmore East breakthrough and running through those early-�...