In the closest we're likely to get to new stuff any time soon from King Crimson, the alumni-filled Crimson ProjeKCt turns in a nervy, tensile live take on this cut from 19952s Thrak. Adrian Belew, Tony Levin and Pat Mastelotto - who last gathered in 1999 with Robert Fripp as King Crimson - were joined by Marcus Reuter, Tobias Ralph [...]
Coming off an insanely good solo album called Terroir, Julie Slick is hoping to crowd-fund an East Coast tour for the newest project she's involved with, called Springs. Already, her Kickstarter campaign has drawn 36 backers - bringing the group within 5,000 of its goal. Deadline is April 1, 2013. "We've been incubating all winter long, working on all of [...]
Back in 2009 Trent Reznor told fans Nine Inch Nails "would disappear for a while" before launching a Farewell Tour for that version of his project. Late last year rumors started circulating that Reznor was working on new NIN material and that has been confirmed today in a statement by Trent that announces a new version of his band which will go on tour soon. Here's the statement from Reznor... Nine Inch Nails are touring this year. [...]
King Crimson guitarist Adrian Belew mentions a promised solo effort, another tour with some fellow Crimson alums, and a "secret thing" to be announced later this year, in a new talk with Guitar Player. That's sparked speculation on just what else is on tap for Belew. Create Digital Music, for instance, reported that he'll join Nine Inch Nails on tour. [...]
Rarely has a tribute album been better titled than "For the Love of Harry." Join us for a closer look and listen...
Whether you like the Beatles or not, their music can certainly take you to some interesting places - as reflected in our latest edition of Desert Island Discs. From Earth Wind and Fire to Marc Ribot, from the Jazz Crusaders to Adrian Belew, from Brad Mehldau to Joe Cocker, each of us has selected the must-have covers of Fab Four [...]
Adrian Belew, coming off a fascinating collaborative effort with the Metropole Orkest, is set to revisit his celebrated tenure with King Crimson on an upcoming summer tour. But not before stopping by for the latest SER Sitdown. He tells us that an undertaking like 'e' for orchestra, as rewarding as it no doubt was, was not without its dizzying challenges: [...]
Adrian Belew's just-completed tour with Tony Levin and Pat Mastelotto presented an opportunity to revisit their time in King Crimson. Unfortunately, Belew says, partial reunions are all that fans are likely to see for the foreseeable future. Those joint concert dates, which saw the Adrian Belew Power Trio headlining a combined bill with Levin's Stick Men, were highlighted by a [...]
The new Talking Heads Chronology DVD is an often fascinating look back at the short, but trailblazing career of one of rock and roll's most unlikely success stories, as viewed through the rear view window of music video and documentary footage. But you won't find any of the live sequences from the great Talking Heads concert film Stop Making Sense, [...]
This DVD takes viewers on a tour through the career of the innovative Talking Heads.
Time to let you have your say. We made a series of lists, checked them twice, then published our best-ofs. But what better way to end things than with the annual SER Readers' Top 10? Here are your albums of the year, based on page views in 2011. Click through the titles for expanded coverage ... No. 10- THE ORIGINAL [...]
After reading Rolling Stone magazine's list of Top 100 guitarists, I felt the need to chime in. Not that there's a problem with the list or anything. Well ... OK, there is a problem. There's a problem with any list that attempts to rank players as if one is 'better' than another. Does it really matter how 'skillful' a player [...]
Are there any big-name musicians out there who seem to be universally loved but that you sort of don't get? Yeah, me too. And it's always kind of bugged me. So much so that I'll often revisit the music just to see either what I've been missing (maybe a light bulb will finally flicker on) or to confirm my usual [...]
The latest incarnation for bassist Tony Levin, best known for his work with King Crimson and Peter Gabriel, is as part of a fearless new trio album with guitarist David Torn and Yes drummer Alan White. Part prog, part free-form improvisational music, part noise rock, Levin Torn White brings in each of their familiar textures and sounds, yet sounds somehow [...]
Here's a look back at the Top 10 stories from last month on SomethingElseReviews.com, based on page views from our readers. Click through the titles for complete details ... No. 10 - ONE TRACK MIND: ALEX MACHACEK, 'VERY SAD': Alex Machacek, whose thrilling pyrotechnic brilliance we've already raved about, peels off layer after layer of his own towering virtuosity on
On this special edition of Something Else! Reviews’ One Track Mind, we hand the reins over to Adrian Belew, guitarist with King Crimson. Discover why he likes working with younger musicians (no mortages or spouses to lure them out of the studio!), and how he'd like to push Crimson's double-trio format even further out. Reminesce on Belew's criminally underappreciated side
Adrian Belew, at work these days a classical reformulation of his well-received 2009 trio project e, admits that he’s unsure when King Crimson will reform. “No word right now,” he says of the group, led since its late 1960s inception by Robert Fripp. “We’re just waiting on a word of encouragement from dear Robert.” It’s not like he’s been sitting
by Tom Johnson A definitive entry in the Talking Heads' catalog this was somehow out of print at one point for, what, nearly two full decades? I was lucky enough to stumble upon a bootleg copy of the vinyl a while back but the sound quality was pretty rough; there was no doubt it came from a well-loved copy of
In honor of the period we'll call "Parent's Month" that falls between Mother's Day and Father's Day, this week's B List looks at ten amazing songs written from the perspective of a parent to their child along with a few from the opposite perspective. I'll include a lyrical gut punch from each. 1. Beautiful Boy - John Lennon For one of the tracks on John Lennon's "comeback" album from 1980, Double Fantasy, the former Beatle wrote this song about his son Sean. I struggle to [...]
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