There is not much that Steve Vai can’t play on the electric guitar. Few have done more to extend what is possible on the instrument, and yet, even the greats sometimes struggle with another great’s ...

BEAT, the quartet of ’80s King Crimson members Adrian Belew and Tony Levin plus guitarist Steve Vai and TOOL drummer Danny Carey, are on tour now, playing King Crimson songs from 1981’s Discipline, ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – It’s no secret that King Crimson, the ever-changing, avant-garde progressive rock outfit, is one of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame’s biggest singular snubs. They’ve been eligible for ...

Adrian Belew laughed as he told fans at Beat’s show Sunday night, Oct. 27, at Detroit’s Masonic Cathedral Theatre, that “We had a plan — let’s play the easiest songs we can play. “That plan didn’t ...

King Crimson spin-off band Beat – featuring Adrian Belew, Steve Vai, Tony Levin and Danny Carey – has released a live video for their version of “Frame by Frame.” It’s taken from the quartet’s ...

Tony Levin played bass during a unique time in the history of the British progressive band King Crimson, which started its career in the late 1960s. From 1981 to 1984, Levin was a member of a quartet ...

In the three-plus decades rock guitarist Adrian Belew has lived in the Nashville area, he has never played a set of his own music at the Ryman Auditorium. But that will change on Monday, Oct. 28, when ...

Boston is a complex, multi-dimensional city. But it’s not wrong to picture it as a town where two sides, often summed up as the visceral and intellectual, wrestle for cultural control. “I love that it ...

Rare as the occasions may be, it’s usually a great sign when band members geek out among themselves onstage to an extent that matches the passion of a dedicated audience that paid to watch them. That ...