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King Crimson announce new 2014 New York live album will be released in July
By Jerry Ewing published
2014 NYC heralds the start of a series of releases from the King Crimson line-ups from 2014-2021

Former King Crimson drummer Michael Giles returns with Shadows/Solo, his first album for 25 years
By Jerry Ewing published
Michael Giles' Shadows/Solo kickstarts a series of archival releases which incudes work with Jamie Muir and a five-disc box set

Toyah and Robert Fripp return with their most disturbing Sunday Lunch video yet
By Fraser Lewry published
Quick! Somebody fetch the bug spray!

King Crimson’s rock star moments: A unique marriage proposal, a food fight and an adult movie soundtrack
By Sid Smith published
John Wetton recalled a unique proposal in Italy as he argued that the band had plenty of edgy adventures – they just didn’t get caught

Bill Bruford’s first and best drum lesson as King Crimson recorded Larks’ Tongues In Aspic
By Mike Barnes published
He’d left Yes to join Robert Fripp in the hope of growing and learning. He didn’t expect it to happen the way it did

Amazingly, a prog supergroup soundtracked the summer of 1982. Their secret? English church music
By Mark Blake published
With a background in three of the genre’s biggest bands, the quartet got tired of creating epics and decided to go pop. But they know their debut album would have only achieved a thousandth of its sales without the last track to be added

How a progressive rock legend helped Nine Inch Nails make an alt. rock masterpiece
By Paul Brannigan published
"To be honest, my manager had to talk me into this one"

The apocalyptic anthem that sowed the seeds for prog – and became “the first heavy metal song” in the process
By Jo Kendall published
Everyone from Ozzy to Voivod has covered this groundbreaking masterpiece
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