Rock’s friskiest couple Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox are back with a brand-new edition of their “Sunday Lunch” performance series. This time around, the King Crimson guitarist and the new wave singer deliver a lickin’ good version of the Iggy & The Stooges classic “Search and Destroy.”
Sporting matching mohawks, the married pair pay homage to the godfather of punk, Iggy Pop, with a playful rendition of the Raw Power tune. Robert plays the song’s iconic guitar licks while Toyah sings and dances seductively around her husband. It all culminates with Toyah slowly licking the side of Robert’s face.
The ever-youthful Robert and Toyah just celebrated their 78th and 66th birthdays on May 16th and May 18th, respectively. They’ve been entertaining fans with their “Sunday Lunch” series for four years now.
‘Search and Destroy” follows performances of blink-182’s “Dammit,” Beastie Boys’ “(You Gotta) Fight for Your...
Sporting matching mohawks, the married pair pay homage to the godfather of punk, Iggy Pop, with a playful rendition of the Raw Power tune. Robert plays the song’s iconic guitar licks while Toyah sings and dances seductively around her husband. It all culminates with Toyah slowly licking the side of Robert’s face.
The ever-youthful Robert and Toyah just celebrated their 78th and 66th birthdays on May 16th and May 18th, respectively. They’ve been entertaining fans with their “Sunday Lunch” series for four years now.
‘Search and Destroy” follows performances of blink-182’s “Dammit,” Beastie Boys’ “(You Gotta) Fight for Your...
- 5/26/2024
- by Spencer Kaufman
- Consequence - Music
In an era where music production is often tempo’d to a click track, Tool remain steadfast in keeping their rhythm tracks as organic as possible.
Drummer Danny Carey revealed that the band has never recorded to a click, explaining why Tool opt for an old-school “live in the studio” approach to recording drums in a new interview with YouTuber Rick Beato (as transcribed by Metal Injection).
“We go to a big room to capture the drums… We’ll go to a place like Ocean Way or O’Henry — someplace that has a million dollars worth of microphones and a big beautiful room,” Carey said. “And then, our goal is just to capture the drum tracks, and we all play together. We’ll agree on a tempo, and we’ll start a click in our heads. And then, as soon as I count it off, we’re just playing.”
To be fair,...
Drummer Danny Carey revealed that the band has never recorded to a click, explaining why Tool opt for an old-school “live in the studio” approach to recording drums in a new interview with YouTuber Rick Beato (as transcribed by Metal Injection).
“We go to a big room to capture the drums… We’ll go to a place like Ocean Way or O’Henry — someplace that has a million dollars worth of microphones and a big beautiful room,” Carey said. “And then, our goal is just to capture the drum tracks, and we all play together. We’ll agree on a tempo, and we’ll start a click in our heads. And then, as soon as I count it off, we’re just playing.”
To be fair,...
- 4/9/2024
- by Jon Hadusek
- Consequence - Music
Adrian Belew, Tony Levin, Tool drummer Danny Carey, and guitar virtuoso Steve Vai, performing under the moniker Beat, will celebrate King Crimson on a Fall 2024 North American tour.
The extensive trek kicks off September 12th in San Jose, California, and runs through November 8th in Las Vegas. In between, they’ll play shows in Los Angeles, San Diego, Houston, Atlanta, Charlotte, New York, Toronto, Nashville, Minneapolis, and beyond.
Get Beat Tickets Here
An artist ticket pre-sale is already under way using the code Beattour, and general ticket sales start Friday (April 5th) at 10 a.m. local time via Ticketmaster. Fans can also look for deals or get tickets to sold-out dates via StubHub, where your purchase is 100% guaranteed through StubHub’s Fan Protect program.
The tour will see the all-star ensemble — guided by King Crimson members Belew and Levin — reinterpret three of the band’s ’80s albums: Discipline, Beat, and Three of a Perfect Pair.
The extensive trek kicks off September 12th in San Jose, California, and runs through November 8th in Las Vegas. In between, they’ll play shows in Los Angeles, San Diego, Houston, Atlanta, Charlotte, New York, Toronto, Nashville, Minneapolis, and beyond.
Get Beat Tickets Here
An artist ticket pre-sale is already under way using the code Beattour, and general ticket sales start Friday (April 5th) at 10 a.m. local time via Ticketmaster. Fans can also look for deals or get tickets to sold-out dates via StubHub, where your purchase is 100% guaranteed through StubHub’s Fan Protect program.
The tour will see the all-star ensemble — guided by King Crimson members Belew and Levin — reinterpret three of the band’s ’80s albums: Discipline, Beat, and Three of a Perfect Pair.
- 4/2/2024
- by Jon Hadusek
- Consequence - Music
King Crimson’s beloved Eighties albums Discipline, Beat, and Three of a Perfect Pair will be brought back to life in the fall on a special tour featuring guitarist Steve Vai, Tool drummer Danny Carey, Crimson singer/guitarist Adrian Belew, and Crimson bassist Tony Levin. The Beat tour kicks off September 12 in San Jose, California, and wraps up November 8 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Ticket sales begin April 5.
Crimson founder Robert Fripp reanimated King Crimson in 1981 after a seven-year hiatus. The only member from the Seventies version he brought back into...
Crimson founder Robert Fripp reanimated King Crimson in 1981 after a seven-year hiatus. The only member from the Seventies version he brought back into...
- 4/1/2024
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
Peter Gabriel has returned with i/o, his first album of new, original material in 21 years. Stream it below.
i/o spans 12 tracks and arrives in several different mixes, including a Bright-Side Mix and a Dark-Side Mix, which were done by Mark “Spike” Stent and Tchad Blake, respectively. Appearing alongside Gabriel on the record is longtime collaborator, Brian Eno, as well as guitarist David Rhodes, bassist Tony Levin, drummer Manu Katché, two different choirs, and others.
The two mixes are available to stream digitally, and can be purchased on CD and vinyl formats. Additionally, Gabriel is offering standalone pressings of each mix, as well as 4xLP, three-disc box-set featuring both mixes and a third mix, the In-Side Mix by Hans-Martin Buff. Orders are ongoing.
In the lead up to i/o’s release, Gabriel previewed the album by unveiling a new track on the occasion of every full moon. He also...
i/o spans 12 tracks and arrives in several different mixes, including a Bright-Side Mix and a Dark-Side Mix, which were done by Mark “Spike” Stent and Tchad Blake, respectively. Appearing alongside Gabriel on the record is longtime collaborator, Brian Eno, as well as guitarist David Rhodes, bassist Tony Levin, drummer Manu Katché, two different choirs, and others.
The two mixes are available to stream digitally, and can be purchased on CD and vinyl formats. Additionally, Gabriel is offering standalone pressings of each mix, as well as 4xLP, three-disc box-set featuring both mixes and a third mix, the In-Side Mix by Hans-Martin Buff. Orders are ongoing.
In the lead up to i/o’s release, Gabriel previewed the album by unveiling a new track on the occasion of every full moon. He also...
- 12/1/2023
- by Jo Vito
- Consequence - Music
For nearly a year, Peter Gabriel has been teasing his new album, i/o, by releasing a single to coincide with a full moon. On December 1st, he’ll finally unveil the project in full.
i/o marks Gabriel’s first album of new, original material in more than two decades. A bevy of musicians and producers contributed to the record, including guitarist Gabriel’s longtime collaborators Brian Eno, guitarist David Rhodes, bassist Tony Levin, and drummer Manu Katché, the Soweto Gospel Choir and Swedish all-male choir Oprhei Drängar, and the New Blood Orchestra, among others.
All 12 of the album’s tracks are subject to two stereo mixes: the Bright-Side Mix helmed by Mark ‘Spike’ Stent, and the Dark-Side Mix helmed by Tchad Blake. The two mixes are included on the double-cd package, and are also available separately as double vinyl albums. Additionally, a third version – the In-Side Mix helmed...
i/o marks Gabriel’s first album of new, original material in more than two decades. A bevy of musicians and producers contributed to the record, including guitarist Gabriel’s longtime collaborators Brian Eno, guitarist David Rhodes, bassist Tony Levin, and drummer Manu Katché, the Soweto Gospel Choir and Swedish all-male choir Oprhei Drängar, and the New Blood Orchestra, among others.
All 12 of the album’s tracks are subject to two stereo mixes: the Bright-Side Mix helmed by Mark ‘Spike’ Stent, and the Dark-Side Mix helmed by Tchad Blake. The two mixes are included on the double-cd package, and are also available separately as double vinyl albums. Additionally, a third version – the In-Side Mix helmed...
- 10/18/2023
- by Scoop Harrison
- Consequence - Music
In 1986, ten years after the Band had played “The Last Waltz,” its final show with the original lineup, Robbie Robertson decided the time had come to return to music. He’d dabbled in acting and film scoring — not to mention some wild Hollywood times that he would later begin chronicling in the memoir he was writing before his death on Aug. 9. But recording an album under his own name, something he’d never done before, became his new passion in the Eighties.
In search of a sound to call his own,...
In search of a sound to call his own,...
- 8/10/2023
- by David Browne
- Rollingstone.com
Peter Gabriel has shared “Road to Joy,” the sixth single from his upcoming album, i/o.
Co-produced by Brian Eno, the “Bright-Side Mix” of the song mixed by Mark “Spike” Stent, “Road to Joy” explores the reawakening of senses.
“I’m working on a project which is partly a story focused around the brain and how we perceive things and this song connects to that,” Gabriel said in a statement. “It deals with near-death experience and locked-in syndrome situations where people are unable to communicate or to move. It’s an amazingly frustrating condition.
Co-produced by Brian Eno, the “Bright-Side Mix” of the song mixed by Mark “Spike” Stent, “Road to Joy” explores the reawakening of senses.
“I’m working on a project which is partly a story focused around the brain and how we perceive things and this song connects to that,” Gabriel said in a statement. “It deals with near-death experience and locked-in syndrome situations where people are unable to communicate or to move. It’s an amazingly frustrating condition.
- 6/5/2023
- by Althea Legaspi
- Rollingstone.com
Peter Gabriel, English rock music legend and human rights champion who’s best-known for his anti-apartheid anthem, ‘Biko’, has been dropping, according to ‘Variety’, new songs with each full moon this year.
The latest one sees not only the arrival of a new song from his forthcoming album ‘i/o’ – ‘Playing for Time’, but also provides details of his first full North American tour in many years.
Produced by Live Nation, the newly announced dates will find Peter Gabriel performing in Quebec City, Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal, Boston, Philadelphia, New York, Chicago, Vancouver, Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles, notes ‘Variety’.
The announcement adds: “Fans should also stay tuned for future tour date announcements in Washington, Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Columbus, Cleveland, Detroit, Milwaukee, St Paul, Denver, Austin, Dallas and Houston.”
‘i/o – The Tour’ will see Gabriel accompanied by his longtime bandmates Tony Levin, David Rhodes and French drummer Manu Katche.
The new single,...
The latest one sees not only the arrival of a new song from his forthcoming album ‘i/o’ – ‘Playing for Time’, but also provides details of his first full North American tour in many years.
Produced by Live Nation, the newly announced dates will find Peter Gabriel performing in Quebec City, Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal, Boston, Philadelphia, New York, Chicago, Vancouver, Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles, notes ‘Variety’.
The announcement adds: “Fans should also stay tuned for future tour date announcements in Washington, Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Columbus, Cleveland, Detroit, Milwaukee, St Paul, Denver, Austin, Dallas and Houston.”
‘i/o – The Tour’ will see Gabriel accompanied by his longtime bandmates Tony Levin, David Rhodes and French drummer Manu Katche.
The new single,...
- 3/8/2023
- by News Bureau
- GlamSham
Back in 2005, Peter Gabriel told Rolling Stone that he was making steady progress on his new LP i/o after three years of work. “At the moment, I’m trying to write principally about birth and death, with the sex in the middle,” he said, noting that he was producing the album himself. “My mental process is so slow, that it’s not really fair to take that time out of anyone else’s life.”
Eighteen years later, the Chinese Democracy of Peter Gabriel albums is finally on the verge of release.
Eighteen years later, the Chinese Democracy of Peter Gabriel albums is finally on the verge of release.
- 1/6/2023
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
Toby Amies on Robert Fripp and In the Court of the Crimson King: King Crimson at 50: “It’s an interrogation into what I find around me and the circumstances in which I find myself and especially the relationships that I observe and I’m involved in.” Photo: Toby Amies
Toby Amies’s perceptive and imaginative In the Court Of The Crimson King: King Crimson At 50, captures the essence of the individual current and former members of King Crimson through candid and forthcoming on-camera interviews, sound checks, and the cost of being on the road. The director pulls the curtain back with precision to give us a distinctive look into Robert Fripp the master himself, the groups leader and disciplinarian.
Toby Amies with Anne-Katrin Titze on In The Court Of The Crimson King: King Crimson At 50: “I was in a very interesting position making this film because on the...
Toby Amies’s perceptive and imaginative In the Court Of The Crimson King: King Crimson At 50, captures the essence of the individual current and former members of King Crimson through candid and forthcoming on-camera interviews, sound checks, and the cost of being on the road. The director pulls the curtain back with precision to give us a distinctive look into Robert Fripp the master himself, the groups leader and disciplinarian.
Toby Amies with Anne-Katrin Titze on In The Court Of The Crimson King: King Crimson At 50: “I was in a very interesting position making this film because on the...
- 10/20/2022
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Peter Gabriel will play his 1986 album So in full at a series of UK shows next year. The ex-Genesis star is this year celebrating the 25th anniversary of the release, which was re-issued last month in a deluxe edition box-set edition. Gabriel is backed on the tour by bassist Tony Levin, guitarist David Rhodes, keyboardist David Sancious and drummer Manu Katche. Tickets for the 'Back to Front' dates are available to fanclub members this Wednesday, November 21 at 9am and go on general release this Friday, November 23 at 9am. So includes Gabriel's hits 'Sledgehammer' (more)...
- 11/19/2012
- by By Mayer Nissim
- Digital Spy
If you want to know about contemporary British jazz or prog, you go to Downtown Music Gallery, where between them Bruce Gallanter and Manny Maris are an encyclopedic repository of knowledge and infallible taste. So when on my most recent trip there, Bruce passed me a sampler called Who Is Phil Gibbs? and told me the titular guitarist would be playing a series of shows in NYC (including his USA debut), I played said disc as soon as I got home, and was immediately intrigued.
In its listing, Tony calls Phil Gibbs "a staunch free-improviser" and goes on to compare him to Derek Bailey, but that's just one facet of his multi-stylistic habits. Drawing from a variety of contexts, with recording dates ranging from 2000 to this year, the CD's eight tracks reveal a far more versatile musician than Tony suggests.
"The Sound of One Who Loves" is just Gibbs, apparently...
In its listing, Tony calls Phil Gibbs "a staunch free-improviser" and goes on to compare him to Derek Bailey, but that's just one facet of his multi-stylistic habits. Drawing from a variety of contexts, with recording dates ranging from 2000 to this year, the CD's eight tracks reveal a far more versatile musician than Tony suggests.
"The Sound of One Who Loves" is just Gibbs, apparently...
- 10/27/2012
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
Chicago – I’m a little biased when it comes to analyzing a documentary about Peter Gabriel. He’s one of the most important musicians of all time, particularly in the way he blended world music and pop in the ’80s, an art form that reached a peak with the timeless “So,” the latest recording analyzed in Eagle Rock’s award-winning “Classic Albums” series of Blu-rays and DVDs. In hindsight, the production is missing a few key players but those who do come to talk about “So” do so with love and insight.
Rating: 4.0/5.0
The major contributors to “Classic Albums: Peter Gabriel: So” are journalist David Fricke, producer Daniel Lanois, and, most interestingly, Gabriel himself. The interviews alternate from the kind of in-depth material that will impress musicians themselves, such as the way the drums were mixed, and the anecdotes that will be of interest to anyone (like the fact...
Rating: 4.0/5.0
The major contributors to “Classic Albums: Peter Gabriel: So” are journalist David Fricke, producer Daniel Lanois, and, most interestingly, Gabriel himself. The interviews alternate from the kind of in-depth material that will impress musicians themselves, such as the way the drums were mixed, and the anecdotes that will be of interest to anyone (like the fact...
- 10/27/2012
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
"Peter Gabriel and John Cusack on stage together at the Hollywood Bowl tonight. Won't forget that… ever," tweeted Say Anything director Cameron Crowe soon after watching a warm tribute to one of the most iconic moments from his or any other movie during Saturday night Back To Front concert, where Gabriel performed his seminal album So in its entirety and invited Lloyd Dobler himself on stage to hand over (you guessed it) a boombox during the opening of "In Your Eyes."
Previously…
Peter Gabriel Announces 'So' 25th (Ahem) Anniversary Tour
(For you kids too young to remember, a boombox is something you used to hold over your head outside your girlfriend's house when she was really mad at you about something. Like this.)
Watch the pretty cool moment followed by a typically rousing rendition of "In Your Eyes" below.
Side note: I can't not grin every time Tony Levin does his "in your eeeeyyyyyeeeessss" thing.
Previously…
Peter Gabriel Announces 'So' 25th (Ahem) Anniversary Tour
(For you kids too young to remember, a boombox is something you used to hold over your head outside your girlfriend's house when she was really mad at you about something. Like this.)
Watch the pretty cool moment followed by a typically rousing rendition of "In Your Eyes" below.
Side note: I can't not grin every time Tony Levin does his "in your eeeeyyyyyeeeessss" thing.
- 10/8/2012
- by Brett Warner
- Celebsology
For over 40 years bass player Tony Levin has been one of the very best in the business. He has played with King Crimson, released a number of solo albums, and has recorded and played with countless artists including Peter Gabriel, David Bowie, Brian “Head” Welch, and Alice Cooper to name a few. Recently he teemed up with guitarist David Torn and Yes drummer Alan White on the fantastic new album, Levin Torn White.
The original blogger (he was doing it before it even had a name) gave me some great answers to my email questions, and explains just what in the name of prog ‘funk fingers’ is.
Geeks of Doom: Hello Tony, how are you?
Tony Levin: Quite well. Writing from the tour van, on a 7-hour drive from Atlanta, Ga to Carrboro, Nc - doing what I love to do (well, not driving in the van...) bringing my music to people.
The original blogger (he was doing it before it even had a name) gave me some great answers to my email questions, and explains just what in the name of prog ‘funk fingers’ is.
Geeks of Doom: Hello Tony, how are you?
Tony Levin: Quite well. Writing from the tour van, on a 7-hour drive from Atlanta, Ga to Carrboro, Nc - doing what I love to do (well, not driving in the van...) bringing my music to people.
- 10/18/2011
- by Obi-Dan
- Geeks of Doom
Following the August 3rd performance of The Toxic Avenger, legendary bass guitarist Tony Levin, best known for his work with progressive rock pioneers King Crimson and Peter Gabriel, as well as for his playing on hundreds of albums including Cher, Alice Cooper, John Lennon, Stevie Nicks and Lou Reed, paid a backstage visit to meet the cast and band. He posed for photos and even signed the bass guitar of Dan Grennes, the show's bass guitarist. Rock on!
- 8/5/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
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