keith emerson Archive
14 Mar 2023
Interview Roundup: Emerson, Lake & Palmer
In the years after punk and new wave had their moment, it would become fashionable to rag on the so-called “dinosaurs” of progressive rock. The thinking went – or so […]
26 Jun 2022
Music to Your Ears: ELP’s ‘Trilogy’
One of progressive rock’s leading lights as well as one of its first supergroups, Emerson Lake & Palmer exploded onto the music scene with “Lucky Man,” the hit single from […]
06 Mar 2022
March Through Time: Emerson Lake & Palmer
This month, I’m hitting pause on coverage of new artists and releases, focusing instead for a bit on the bodies of work from some of my favorite artists. — bk […]
23 Oct 2019
For Example: A Look Back at ‘The Nice’ at 50
It’s unfortunate that when the Nice come up in conversation today, they’re too quickly summed up as “the band that Keith Emerson was in before ELP.” That’s a true enough […]
31 Mar 2018
Hundred-word Reviews: Reissues, Archival Releases, Compilations
My shelf full of albums to be reviewed has run out of space. So once again it’s time for a raft of hundred-word reviews. All sixteen titles in this roundup […]
06 Jan 2017
A Look Back at ELP with Carl Palmer, Part Three
Continued from Part Two … Bill Kopp: With the benefit of studio technology, bands in the early ’70s could overdub and make really dense, layered albums. Reproducing that sound onstage […]
05 Jan 2017
A Look Back at ELP with Carl Palmer, Part Two
Continued from Part One … Bill Kopp: The term “supergroup” was just coming into use around the time ELP got started. And it certainly applied to you three, since each […]
04 Jan 2017
A Look Back at ELP with Carl Palmer, Part One
Late-breaking Author’s Note: Very shortly after I turned in this feature for publication — it ran in December on BLURT — news broke that Greg Lake had succumbed to cancer […]
22 Feb 2016
Hundred-word Reviews for February 2016, Part 1
Once again, it’s time for some hundred-word reviews. This first set spotlights five archival releases loosely falling into the prog subgenre. Greg Lake & Geoff Downes – Ride the Tiger […]
27 Jan 2015
Hundred-word Reviews: January 2015, Part 2
There’s a never-ending stream of new music, so it’s time once again for some hundred-worders to work off some of my backlog. As always, these all deserve full reviews, but […]
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