The California Guitar Trio has advance copies of their new album, Echoes.  Be sure to put in your order over at CGTrio.com today!

Here’s the writeup:

Advance copies now available. This new California Guitar Trio CD features arrangements of an eclectic variety of CGT favorites, and includes a never before released studio version of Bohemian Rhapsody. Produced by CGT sound man Tyler Trotter. Featuring guests appearances by Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Tony Levin, Pat Mastelotto, Tom Griesgraber, Jamie Masefield, Pamelia Kursten, Tyler Trotter and more. The Louisville Weekly says: “The Trio’s 12:20 version of Pink Floyd’s Echoes will redefine what it means to play guitar.”
01. The Cruel Sea
02. Music for a Found Harmonium
03. Unmei
04. Echoes
05. Tubular Bells
06. Pastorale
07. Bohemian Rhapsody
08. And I Know
09. Freebird

The King is back, and they’ve released the photos to prove it!

Over at DGMLive.com we find several photos from the recent rehearsals that took place in Nashville in preparation for touring this August.

Check out DGM’s website for all of the photos!

(Thanks to commenter Ela, who gives us the news regarding an audio sample from the rehearsals!)

http://www.dgmlive.com/archive.htm?artist=16&show=1314

Well, that is my only assumption based upon the events of today.

Please accept my apologies for downtime experienced today and for the trash that was displayed at this space during that time.

We’ve taken some serious steps in buttoning things down a bit and we feel that at this time we are relatively secure, as secure as the internet allows in any case.

Again, please accept our sincerest apologies.

I’m sure you all share similar feelings towards those who caused the nuisance earlier today.

Thank you all for the emails of concern!

Today we find some very cool info from our friends at DGM…

As has become almost a sort of tradition, Nashville will be the public warmup location of choice for this August’s Crim tour.  You’ll find a pair of dates, August 2nd, and 3rd at the Belcourt where the mighty Crim will once again awaken from its slumber.

Belcourt is not a terribly huge venue, (about 334 seats or so), so expect these to go fast!

Click HERE to get your tickets!

The excellent band no-man whose core members consist of Steven Wilson on instrumentation and Tim Bowness’ amazing voice is set to release their next studio album entitled “Schoolyard Ghosts” on May 12th.

What gives this a Crim spin is that this album features some guest appearances from Pat Mastelotto and Gavin Harrison amongst many others, in fact, here’s a snippet of the writeup:

A distinctive combination of beautifully detailed songwriting, haunting melodies and inventively cinematic production, ‘Schoolyard Ghosts’ sees Tim and Steven expanding the band’s sonic palette yet again by collaborating with (amongst others) Californian pedal steel guitar ace Bruce Kaphan (American Music Club, Red House Painters), drummers Pat Mastelotto(King Crimson, Mastica) and Gavin Harrison (Porcupine Tree, King Crimson), saxophonist/flautist Theo Travis, and the London Session Orchestra arranged by Dave Stewart(Hatfield & The North, Egg, Stewart & Gaskin etc).

 A new no-man album by itself it’s pretty exciting, but add in these other elements, and you’ve certainly piqued my interest!  Further details are available at no-man’s site linked above or check out the album’s minisite HERE and be sure to check out the haunting video!

It’s been on Youtube since December, but somehow, I managed to miss it. Don’t you hate it when real life gets in the way of Krimson News?

Anyways, Jeremy Frindel directed this music video of the song, “Speedbump”, from the Stickman CD which came out late last year.

Speedbump by Tony Levin

The word via The Seaweed Farm brings news that Gavin Harrison is currently working in King Crimson for rehearsals in preparation for the August shows.  Vibrations on the net are indicating that the rehearsals are going well and that Crim is very much a rocking beast in this lineup.

After Gavin wraps up the KC rehearsals he’s off to play with Porcupine Tree for a few dates this spring and summer before rejoining King Crimson in August.  You can find more info on the Porcupine Tree tourdate info at their website HERE.  To go along with all of that he’ll be at the Geelong Drum Festival “Drumania” near Melbourne as well as the Green Room on April 29th and 30th respectively.

I wonder how many miles he has on that drumkit?  He’s likely due for an oil change!

Color me shocked and amazed, yes, that’s right, LTE is back together for a few cross country US dates.  Consisting of Mike Portnoy on drums, John Petrucci on guitar, Jordan Rudess on keyboards, and “Papabear” Tony Levin on bass, LTE currently has 6 shows at 5 locations, in 5 days, doing two shows at BB King’s in New York City.

The second show at New York City is due to the first show already being sold out.

Bringing together what is essentially a mash up of Dream Theater meets King Crimson’s bassist, their pair of releases over the last several years have met with very good reception and reviews, and you’ll kick yourself missing one of these shows if you have the opportunity to make it to one.

Be sure to check out Tony Levin’s official site for all the details and Metal Underground’s news bit for the details regarding the second show in New York.

Currently there is no word that we’ve seen regarding possible studio work.

Alterati’s Ripple show, in the form of a playable/downloadable audio file interviews Pat Mastelotto regarding all of his latest projects including Tovah, TUNER, KTU, MPTU, TU, and of course, this little band you might have heard of, King Crimson.

In the interview Pat indicates that the current intention for KC at this time is US based residency gigs focusing on existing repertoire and no new material.

Presumably this is to get the band back on the same page after their 3 year hiatus as well as acclimate the new and returning members to life as King Crimson.

If things go well, Pat indicates that a natural progression could follow, who knows?

Be sure to check out the Alterati Ripple show for all the details:

http://www.alterati.com/blog/?p=1827

Ade guests on a new 1-4 cd instrumental collection by Trent and NIN.

From the site:

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