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LouderSound7/16/2026

King Crimson: In The Court Of The Crimson King quiz

How much do you know about King Crimson's game-changing debut album, In The Court Of The Crimson King?

LouderSound7/15/2026

“I don’t think he ever got over being fired from King Crimson… but he went on to bigger, more financially successful things”: Peter Sinfield, the prog poet who gave voices to ELP, Roxy Music and many others

Lyricist, art director and producer who aimed to enlighten, provoke or stir died in November 2024 without being fully aware of what he’d achieved

LouderSound7/14/2026

“We had no money, no management, and we’d been dropped by the label. But when we plugged in and played, it was the most magnificent thing”: Midge Ure’s prog moments with Ultravox, Robert Fripp, Kate Bush, Jethro Tull and, indirectly, Steven Wilson

Taking the same attitude to keyboards that he’d first taken to guitar, Midge Ure regards his best 80s work as “synth prog” – and it’s difficult to disagree

LouderSound7/13/2026

“I remain proud to have worked with a special talent. I’ll even miss the ‘downs,’ but mostly remember the ‘ups’”: Strawbs mastermind Dave Cousins remembered

A six-decade career full of kindness – and occasional volatility – came to an end when the folk-tinged prog icon died aged 85 in 2025

LouderSound7/8/2026

“I listen to John Wetton constantly. His sound completely conveys what I want to do sonically”: This doom metal master wasn’t allowed to listen to prog as a kid. He made up for it when he started playing bass

He names the King Crimson classic that means the most to him, and credits Asia, Family and Camel among his other prog influences

Kritikzine7/2/2026

The Gathering - Mandylion 30. Yıl Dönümü Konseri İncelemesi

İstanbul'dan ve yüreğimizin ta içerisinden bir The Gathering geçti...

Blabbermouth7/1/2026

STICK MEN Pay Homage To KING CRIMSON's 'Thrak' On First New Studio Album In A Decade, 'Let's Thrak Again'

STICK MEN, the progressive powerhouse featuring KING CRIMSON's Tony Levin and Pat Mastelotto with multi-instrumentalist and composer Markus Reuter, returns with its first new album in over a decade, "Let's Thrak Again", a Robert Fripp-sanctioned homage to KING CRIMSON's eleventh studio album, "Thrak...

LouderSound6/13/2026

“We did two days recording… he fired the whole band on the first day”: Tony Levin recalls the “really evil” bandleader who was more challenging than Peter Gabriel and Robert Fripp

Despite a huge range of experience, prog bassist Tony Levin easily identifies the person he found most difficult to work with

LouderSound6/9/2026

King Crimson announce listening sessions in conjunction with London's Polygon Portal

King Crimson will release a newly mixed version of 1971's Islands on CD and Blu-ray and on vinyl in September

LouderSound6/5/2026

“They were defensive about keyboards. Everything I played, they had to have a band meeting about. Then they suddenly wanted wall-to-wall keys. It was quite silly”: Deep Purple’s Don Airey recalls the one album he regrets

Deep Purple’s Don Airey has credits with everyone from Jethro Tull and Colosseum to II to Black Sabbath and Queen. It’s surprising he only has one cringe memory

LouderSound5/23/2026

“We’d been messing about with it for so long that we said, ‘Let’s stop thinking and let go of it’”: Sigur Rós, a discredited medieval poem and the end of Heaven and Earth

Labels have learned that Sigur Rós will do what they want. But did anyone expect a medieval poem with a pagan master and a 70-piece stone instrument?

LouderSound5/21/2026

"A girl at school dumped me, maybe that trauma stayed with me!" The story behind Foreigner's classic AOR anthem Cold As Ice

Foreigner guitarist Mick Jones on his bad girl-critiquing 1977 hit Cold As Ice

LouderSound5/12/2026

“Most of the audience reaction was negative. It was messing with my focus. So we decided to do something different”: A change of approach allowed Sunn O)))’s prog influences to run wild

If you can’t connect drone metal heroes Sunn O))) with King Crimson, Mahavishnu Orchestra and Miles Davis, allow them to explain