The band took out the competition’s new emerging artist category last year, scoring the $50,000 Global Music Grant to boost its international profile through recording, touring and marketing…
The word “prolific” is risking oversaturation in this column, but it’s got to be said when you talk about Australian psych lords King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. It’s been an incredible year to be a fan of that band…
7-piece Carlton, Australian band, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard (One of the most spectacular bands that I have ever seen live) just released a new psychedelic / surf track called, “Cellophane”…
Wouldn’t be a good year for King Gizz unless they were two albums deep, runnin’ ragged and blowing minds on two continents. Thankfully, they are and it’s us who reap the benefits.
I’m In Your Mind Fuzz will be released on December 1, 2014 on vinyl, CD and download. The album is released in the US on Castle Face Records. Released on the same day is lead single…
The first single ‘Cellophane‘ even highlights a similar argument I have when analyzing the satisfaction levels of each direction the Thee Oh Sees take. ‘Cellophane’ is untamed, crazy, fun and full of life…
Zany Melbourne garage psych collective King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, a self-described band of “completely fried theremin wielding psychopaths,” are a perfect fit for Thee Oh Sees frontman John Dwyer’s label Castle Face.
A King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard Homecoming Australian Tour 2014 has been announced as the mighty septet lock in a huge run of national dates to celebrate the return from their maiden American voyage.
Having just returned from their debut USA and Canadian tour King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard have announced a headline Australian tour. The Melbourne psych septet will play shows in Sydney, Byron Bay, Brisbane, Gold Coast, Melbourne…
Having just returned from their debut US and Canadian tour King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard have booked a headline Australian tour. The Melbourne psych septet will play shows in Sydney, Byron Bay, Brisbane, Gold Coast, Melbourne, Adelaide…
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard crank up the fuzzbox and set the Memory Man delay on infinity, assembling a cosmic force field that draws their sonic creations of the recent past into one unified, throbbing whole.
If you haven’t already caught on to the King Gizzard phenomenon, you should know that the hyper-prolific Aussie garage-psych band is made up of seven rad, multi-talented dudes including a thereminist, harmonica player, bassist…
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard’s ” Brooklyn Summer Fun Residency” was supposed to be over already but the Australian psych band just can’t seem to get enough of Brooklyn…or maybe Baby’s All Right can’t get enough of them.
On Saturday, June 14th, the penultimate day of Northside 2014 featured free performances by a reunited Thee Oh Sees, The Blind Shake, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard and Walter TV in McCarren Park.
This weekend King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard‘s video for ‘Hot Wax’ is the Clip Of The Week on rage!! Peep out for the video all weekend and come on-a-safari-with-meeeeee
Panache never disappoints when it comes to putting together a rockin’ festival showcase. For tonight’s Northside show, the crew have lined up punk-fueled Brooklyn band Hunters, Aussie surf rockers King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard…
Thee Oh Sees are in town for Northside, playing a free outdoor show in McCarren Park on Saturday (6/14) with The Blind Shake and King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard. RSVP is still open for that.
The terrifyingly prolific King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard have announced the release of two new albums. The Melbourne-based seven-piece have just finished their debut North American tour – funded by the $50,000 they won…
This March, mighty Melbourne seven piece King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard released the “brilliantly uninhibited” Oddments, their fourth album in two years.
Australian psych band King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard stopped off in NYC after Austin Psych Fest and they never got around to leaving. They’ll be here through this month at least, as they’ve just announced a Brooklyn Summer Fun Residency…
A highlight from the Australian psych kings recent album ‘Oddments’, the video for ‘Hot Wax’ looks like something MGMT might have crawled out of a few years back. Or, as director Jason Galea puts it: “‘Hot Wax’ is set in a hallucinative purgatory…
There weren’t too many people there but that didn’t stop people from whipping hair around and calling out requests. These guys have created somewhat of a mystique for themselves.their music is crazy good, bluesy acid-washed psychrock.
Australia’s King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard were in NYC over the weekend for back-to-back shows at Baby’s All Right on Friday (5/16) and Saturday (5/17) that wrapped up their post-Psych Fest tour.
Given the large crowd’s reaction, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard picked up more than a few new fans with its hair-whipping garage psych.
Mighty Melbourne seven-piece King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard have had a very busy 2014. In the last six months they’ve released a new album, rocked a national tour, blasted crowds at Golden Plains and The Gum Ball, escaped a stage collapse…
The band are coming over to North American for Austin Psych Fest and will be touring afterwards, finishing up here in NYC with shows at Baby’s All Right on May 16 & 17.
With a tongue-twisting band name, these Melburnian kids have been churning out tunes with no sign of halting.
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard are a band doing it right in the 2010s, possessing tangible savvy and consistently shifting stylistic focus. Emerging from their formative stint as a collective they consolidated their lineup of seven…
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard’s freakadelic opus is a tunnelling cosmic jam that pushes out past the 15-minute mark, and it has certainly become the Surf Coast group’s emphatic trump card.
Oddments is ripe with multilayered, kaleidoscopic sounds, thanks to a myriad of instruments and the adroit musicians that sculpt the vibe. KGATLW masters chaotic arrangements while managing to sound like a collection of bands on each track.
