3D Hoax A Hoot
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Sat., Apr 2, 2011
Yesterday's April 1st tomfoolery on Radio 4's flagship news programme about Simon Heyworth and Robert Fripp conducting experiments into 3D radio gets a few mentions here and there. The Guardian described Simon and Robert as "the Tubular Bells sound engineers" and praised (if that's the right term) the item for its "plausible dullness". Elsewhere, STV mentioned it in dispatches, and Prefix ran a piece about what it describes as "The BBC, as usual, rides to the rescue, putting their own elegant touch on a douchey American tradition."

KC Sighting In South Korea
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Sat., Apr 2, 2011
My thanks to Alec Miniero for sending in the following. "Been living in South Korea for the past 2 years and sighted this the other day in an area centralized Seoul known as Noksapyeong.  The place is called Pizzarium and features the closest thing I can find to NY style pizza...

Ozzy On Crimso
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Fri., Apr 1, 2011
The new issue of Classic Rock magazine features 100 songwriters as chosen & written about by 100 other songwriters. Ozzy Osborne has this to say about KC. “King Crimson were out there, man. No one else sounded like them back then, and no one has sounded like them since. They had all this great musicianship, but there was a fuckin’ nasty edge. I covered 21st Century Schizoid Man. That’s me in a fuckin’ nutshell.”

Fripp Surround Sound Radio Four
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Fri., Apr 1, 2011
Simon Heyworth and Robert Fripp can be heard on BBC Radio 4's Today programme talking about the new innovation of 3D Radio, 

Thanks For The Memories Of Machines
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Fri., Apr 1, 2011
Robert Fripp is one of the guest contributors to a new collaboration between No-Man's Tim Bowness and Nosound's Giancarlo Erra called Memories Of Machines. The album, Warm Winter, is released on May 16th and you can find out all about it here. 

Mister Mastelotto's Mr. Mr. Giveaway
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Thu., Mar 31, 2011
We have a copy of the recently released fourth album by Pat Mastelotto's pre-Crim band, Mr Mr to giveaway. Although recorded in 1990, the album entitled Pull was unreleased after their then record company decided the band was getting too artsy and removed from the kind of platinum-spawning hit sounds of Kyrie and Broken Wings. 

Adrian's Paradox Performance
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Wed., Mar 30, 2011
My thanks to Fred who tell me that "a solo concert Adrian did at the Paradox in Tilburg the Netherlands will be broadcast on radio this coming Thursday. But you can all ready listen to it online by following this link."

Chris On Crimso
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Tue., Mar 29, 2011
Ex-Squeeze supremo, Chris Difford reminisces about the music that fed his imagination when he was a lad. 

Stick Men Official Bootleg
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Tue., Mar 29, 2011
A download-only official bootleg of Stick Men’s recent gig in Buenos Aires - with plenty of KC content - is now available here. 

Royalties To Get A Lift?
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Tue., Mar 29, 2011
My thanks to Fred for this news item regarding the Eminem lawsuit and its potential implications for older artists. Meanwhile, my thanks also to Kris Nelson for this item lets us know that the stock of some music is going up.