The post With In the Court of the Crimson King, King Crimson Bet on Themselves and Changed Rock Forever appeared first on Consequence. From the moment of its conception, King Crimson was out for shock ...

Can you call your film “In the Court of the Crimson King: King Crimson at 50” and not play a chunky part of the tune you use as your title or show the band playing it on stage? You can if you’re Toby ...

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 ...

Watching Toby Amies’s documentary In the Court of the Crimson King: King Crimson at 50 is an enthralling and often amusing experience. It’s also disconcerting if you labour under the illusion that the ...

Just as King Crimson has been, for more than half a century, an atypical rock band, this film is a refreshingly atypical music documentary. A film about the sacrifices we need to make to bring things ...

Robert Fripp takes in the silence before one of King Crimson's shows on their 2019 tour. In the documentary, he said "For silence to become audible, it requires a vehicle, and that vehicle is music." ...

Toby Amies’s documentary dives into the history of the British progressive rock band King Crimson and its chief disciplinarian, Robert Fripp. By Glenn Kenny When you purchase a ticket for an ...

Robert Fripp is the royal pain in the ass around which Toby Amies's compelling documentary, In the Court of the Crimson King: King Crimson at 50, revolves. (Crimson's 50th anniversary occurred in 2019 ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

The British saxophonist Mel Collins has built a noteworthy 50-year career as a session musician. He’s played on classic albums by the Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, Bryan Ferry, Tina Turner, and many ...

The English multi-instrumentalist Ian McDonald died Wednesday at age 75. He was a founding member of prog-rock titans King Crimson and the hugely popular Foreigner. His son Maxwell announced his death ...