The 53-year history of the prog-rock group King Crimson gets its due in a fascinating, character-rich documentary premiering at SXSW. Plus Icon Film Plus Icon TV ...

One of his pals had just purchased the UK progressive-rock band’s debut album, “In the Court of the Crimson King,” and “we put it on and sat […] Skip to content. All Sections.

"The Court of the Crimson King," with its indigo verses, memorable, mellotron-heavy choruses and some of Pete Sinfield's most elegant prose, brings In the Court of the Crimson King to a close with a ...

For a while now, the Flaming Lips have been kicking around the idea of recording a full-length tribute to King Crimson’s 1969 prog-rock classic In The Court Of The Crimson King, and now it sure ...

It was, quite simply, a sound that shook the music world. When King Crimson emerged from the dust of the considerably more oblique and largely absurd trio of Giles, Giles and Fripp—whose one release, ...

Mike Barnes adds: "When I first encountered In The Court Of The Crimson King aged 13 I had experienced nothing like it: the combination of the music, lyrics and cover made it seem like a chronicle ...

“In the Court of the Crimson King” is really about as good as rock documentaries get, in capturing the essence of a group of musicians and how they relate to each other, the world and a muse ...

Can a band that seems to operate under rigidly precise conditions that can appear joyless from the outside still produce music that sparks spontaneous ecstasy in listeners? That’s the sort of ...