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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 117. Chapters: Sonic Youth, Radiohead, System of a Down, King Crimson, Captain Beefheart, Faith No More, Primus, Pink Floyd, The Velvet Underground, Mr. Bungle, The Mars Volta, Deerhoof, Deerhunter, Hovercraft, Xiu Xiu, The Boxing Lesson, Chicanery, Sun City Girls, The Mothers of Invention, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Oucho Sparks, Acid Bath, Apparatjik, Cop Shoot Cop, Rolo Tomassi, Pram, Cerberus Shoal, Grifters, Achilles, Atoms for Peace, The Color of Violence, Peeping Tom, I Am Spoonbender, Ectogram, Labradford, The VSS, Fushitsusha, JAB, Harvey Milk, Headkase, Pocahaunted, Motherhead Bug, The Strapping Fieldhands, ToTheBones, Viza, Ghost Machine, Escanaba Firing Line, Light Pupil Dilate, God's America, The Ocean Fracture, Brise-Glace, Ours to Destroy, Romance of Young Tigers, Et Sans, A Dream Too Late, Silver Daggers, Pandoras.box, Gorge Trio, X Mars X, The Christmas Lights. Excerpt: King Crimson are a rock band founded in London, England in 1969. Often categorised as a foundational progressive rock group, the band have incorporated diverse influences and instrumentation during their history (including jazz and folk music, classical and experimental music, psychedelic rock, hard rock and heavy metal, new wave, gamelan, electronica and drum and bass). They have been influential on many contemporary musical artists and have gained a large cult following, despite garnering little radio or music video airplay. Though originating in England, King Crimson have had a mixture of English and American personnel since 1981. The band's line-up (centred on guitarist Robert Fripp) has persistently altered throughout their existence, with eighteen musicians and two lyricists passing through the ranks; though a greater degree of stability was achieved later in their history, with Adrian Belew having been a consistent member since 1981. The...