steven wilson Archive
18 Feb 2013
Album Review: King Crimson – Discipline (40th Anniversary Series Edition)
From their inception in 1969, King Crimson has always been about creating outside-the-box music that challenges (or simply ignores) convention. By the middle of the 1970s, the band had created […]
20 Jan 2012
Album Review: Jethro Tull – Aqualung 40th Anniversary Special Edition
A few weeks ago, Jethro Tull‘s highly regarded 1971 album Aqualung was released in a special 40th Anniversary package. But let’s be honest for a moment: this isn’t 1989 (by […]
06 Sep 2011
CD Review: Steven Wilson – Grace for Drowning
Leave it to Steven Wilson to create a solo album that manages to do several things at once, all successfully. This staggeringly busy man has spent his spare time(!) these […]
28 Jun 2011
Two Years of Musoscribe: Steven Wilson
To celebrate the two-year anniversary of this blog, I’m taking the opportunity to look back over some of the more than five hundred blog entries I’ve posted. I’ve conducted interviews, […]
23 Mar 2011
Album Review: Blackfield – Welcome to my DNA
It’s a common sentiment among music fans who’ve lived through the 60s, 70s or even 1980s: Music’s not as good as it used to be. They just don’t make it […]
28 Jan 2011
Album Review: King Crimson – Islands (40th Anniversary Edition)
From the album’s opening strains of “featured player” Harry Miller’s string bass, it’s clear that Islands is going to be quite a different affair from its predecessors. Released in 1971, […]
27 Jan 2011
Interview: Steven Wilson on Porcupine Tree Rarities
Porcupine Tree recently reissued the rare outtakes disc Recordings. I spoke with group leader Steven Wilson about that album and other currently-unavailable material from the band. We also discussed his […]
26 Jan 2011
DVD Review: Insurgentes
Steven Wilson is a man with a lot on his mind. The peripatetic and almost impossibly prolific composer/musician has his hand in a myriad of musical projects: Porcupine Tree, solo […]
25 Jan 2011
Interview: Steven Wilson on Audience Taping
Not that this writer would ever admit to being a collector of unreleased live and studio recordings – perish that thought – the ethics and controversy surrounding the practice of […]
24 Jan 2011
Interview: Steven Wilson on the King Crimson 40th Anniversary Reissue Project
Steven Wilson – leader of Porcupine Tree – was chosen by King Crimson mainstay Robert Fripp to handle the work of remixing and remastering the King Crimson catalog in connection […]