And Through The Wires
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Thu., Aug 2, 2012
Trey Gunn has been preparing for his appearance as part of the Security Project alongside Peter Gabriel alumni Jerry Marrotta and Last Fast. Writing on his Facebook page, Trey notes. "Worked through a gear-related anxiety attack today. For the last several years, I have gone completely digital with my setup (Ableton Live with plugins.) But for The Security Project I wanted to get my bass side happening purely analogue and bypass the computer entirely.

Meet The New Boss, Same As The Old Boss?
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Wed., Aug 1, 2012
This great cartoon about the music industry currently doing the rounds at the moment. 

Lose Lose Situation For Artists
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Mon., Jul 30, 2012
According to this article on TorrentFreak it seems the big labels won't be funneling any cash gained as a result of the legal award against Pirate Bay in the direction of the artists. Meanwhile, CMU  reports that UMG are preparing for what it calls a 'radical divestment' to ensure the deal for EMI goes through. You can read Simon Raymonde of the Bella Union label's take on the UMG /EMI takeover here, as well as Panegyric's Declan Colgan's equally forthright views on why the deal will be bad outcome for artists. 

Jakszyk Collins & Fripp Giveaway
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Sun., Jul 29, 2012
JFC’s A Scarcity Of Miracles is one of the albums used to test drive this speaker system. All of which is a timely reminder that we have a copy of the special edition of the  CD/DVD-A version of the album to give away.

ITCOTCK Best Progressive Of All Time
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Sun., Jul 29, 2012
That's according to this list on the Music Advisor site. There's quite a few other KC titles in there making the list as well as JFC's A Scarcity Of Miracles. 

Olympic Heroes
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Sat., Jul 28, 2012
Last night at the opening ceremony for the 2012 Olympics, Great Britain's team marched into the stadium to the sound of Heroes by David Bowie, featuring the anthemic surging lead guitar lines of Robert Fripp. For viewers able to access BBC iPlayers the Fripp-led team can be seen at around 2hour and 55minute mark.

Rolling Stone's Readers Prog Poll
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Fri., Jul 27, 2012
The readers of Rolling Stone magazine have voted two King Crimson albums into their Favourite Prog Rock Albums Of All Time poll. In at number nine is Red, while ITCOTCK takes the number six slot. 

OMG It's The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Thu., Jul 26, 2012
Industry journal CMU is running this story today about the UMG / EMI takeover. The piece also runs links to Declan Colgan's article on DGM Live earlier this week about the detrimental effect the bid will have on the industry.   Elsewhere, The Guardian's Hellenne Lindvall has this piece running today. Robert Fripp's notes from the speech he gave at the AIM conference last week are now available in his updated diary. 

KC Covers Again
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Wed., Jul 25, 2012
The Dork Report offers another evaluation of KC's cover artwork. 

King Crimson Live In Argentina Review
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Wed., Jul 25, 2012
King Crimson's Live In Argentina has been reviewed here.