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Genre-defying King Gizzard & The Wizard Lizard brings plenty of new music to Las Vegas

Las Vegas Weekly November 4, 2024

“King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard isn’t just a band. It’s a shape-shifting beast that devours genres for breakfast and spits out sounds you didn’t even know you needed.

Psychedelic rock, thrash metal, jazz, electronica, prog, folk, synth-pop and more; nothing is sacred and everything is up for grabs for this Melbourne-based sextet. We’re talking 26 studio albums and counting, 39 live recordings, stacks of singles and enough music videos to keep you glued to your screen for days. And it’s all been done over the course of just 14 years.

The latest record, Flight b741, was released in August right in the middle of a 44-date world tour. Its sound is heavily influenced by no-frills Southern rock n’ roll bands from the late ’60s and early ’70s—pedal steel, harmonicas, bluesy twang and all”

Las Vegas Weekly reviews Ty Segall & The Muggers at Neon Reverb Fest

Las Vegas Weekly March 14, 2016

Punk foursome Beach Slang set the bar high Saturday night at Neon Reverb, and then fuzz-rocker Ty Segall obliterated it completely on Sunday, capping the weekend with a manic performance ranking among the Downtown festival’s all-time best.

Las Vegas Weekly announces Ty Segall headlining Neon Reverb Fest

Las Vegas Weekly February 18, 2016

Ty Segall anchored one of Neon Reverb’s most memorable single nights—September 11, 2012 at the Bunkhouse—so perhaps it’s fitting the California garage-rocker will help Las Vegas’ revered DIY music festival usher in its new era, at the same (relaunched) Downtown venue.

Las Vegas Weekly reviews Emotional Mugger

Las Vegas Weekly January 20, 2016

Ty Segall has long been a musical seeker—in a 2012 Weekly interview he listed Hawkwind, The Fugs, Gong and The Residents among key recent spins—and his latest album finds him putting his record collection to full use.

Las Vegas Weekly reviews Ty Segall’s Beauty Bar show

Las Vegas Weekly October 1, 2014

As the venue’s soundman hurried to cover his gear with tarps and the audience fretted over a potential cancellation, Segall strode onstage and began raging in the rain.

Las Vegas Weekly reviews White Fence’s For the Recently Found Innocent

Las Vegas Weekly July 30, 2014

For the Recently Found Innocent picks up from last year’s choice Cyclops Reap writing-wise—showcasing Presley’s clever hooks and retro-British (though he’s not) constructs—but in a less fuzzy, less fragmented sonic environment.

Ty Segall featured in Las Vegas Weekly’s recap of Coachella

Las Vegas Weekly April 13, 2014

Watching Ty Segall at the Outdoor Theatre to kick off my Saturday drove home a 2014 Coachella reality: the relative lack of noisy, guitar-driven bands.

Las Vegas Weekly reviews Ty Segall’s show at Beauty Bar

Las Vegas Weekly March 22, 2014

When I caught Ty Segall at FYF Fest last summer in LA, he was touring behind 2013’s folky Sleeper, and his set was appropriately seated and subdued. When he hit Vegas two months later, he got heavy and hypnotic, with psych-rock trio Fuzz.