King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard

The members of King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard show off their fanciest footwork in the video for their new song “Hate Dancin’,” the lead single from their third album of this month, Changes, which arrives Oct. 28. Filmed, edited and directed by John Angus Stewart in 2020 at the band’s Australian headquarters, the clip is the first taste of Changes, the genial, methodically composed, soul- and jazz-tinged follow-up to two consecutive jam-based albums, Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms and Lava and Laminated Denim. As he dips into the occasional falsetto, frontman Stu Mackenzie vacillates between retreating from the proverbial dance floor to eventually embracing its delights: “Just jokin’ / I love it / I was just kidding / I love it.” [embedded content][embedded content] Each of the s...

King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard launched its new album, Laminated Denim, last night (Oct. 11) against the backdrop of two marathon three-hour performances at Red Rocks outside Denver. The vinyl (with an actual denim cover) was available early at the merch stand yesterday, and the music itself was debuted over the PA during each show’s intermission. The origins of Laminated Denim are linked with the historic mountain venue. When the Red Rocks shows were postponed from May 2020 due to the pandemic, Gizzard decided to make special music to surprise audiences during the set breaks. What resulted was Made in Timeland, a 30-minute album with two quirky, genre-jumping, 15-minute songs. But when the Red Rocks shows were postponed again until this month, the band opted to release Made in Timelan...

After scrapping summer European dates so its frontman Stu Mackenzie could seek treatment for Crohn’s disease, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard will return to the continent for a spring 2023 tour. Dates begin March 2 in Paris and wrap with a March 22-23 stand at London’s O2 Academy Brixton. Tickets go on sale on Oct. 14. The news comes on the eve of King Gizzard’s debut appearances tonight (Oct. 10) and tomorrow at Red Rocks Amphitheatre outside of Denver (a third show there will happen on Nov. 2). All three Red Rocks gigs are billed as “marathon three-hour sets,” comprising nine hours of music with no song repeats throughout, and will be available through Nugs as delayed streams. As previously reported, the prolific Australian sextet is releasing three new albums this month: Ice, Death, ...

With just three days until the release of its third album of 2022, Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms and Lava, King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard has revealed a very trippy animated video for another song from it, the nine-minute “Iron Lung.” “When I heard this track, I had just started delving into fully animated AI videos and thought, what a good opportunity to use something I barely understand mixed with my love of effects from the dawn of digital video,” says Australian musician SPOD, whose real name is Brent Griffin. “So I poured myself into a cyber spiral for a couple of months and this is the result. I love how the song seems like endless ascending and descending cycles culminating in these dramatic explosions and lifts, so it felt like a perfect fit to dive into a nine-minute d...

King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard have canceled the remaining 13 dates on their summer European tour so frontman Stu Mackenzie can return to Australia for treatment in his battle with Crohn’s Disease. The artist went public with the news tonight (Aug. 5) following the band’s performance in Prague. “For the past decade or so, I’ve dealt with Crohn’s Disease the best I can,” Mackenzie wrote on Instagram. “It’s a miracle we haven’t canceled any shows in the past. But right now, my health is in really bad shape and I need to get home for some urgent treatment. I’ve always kept my struggles with Crohn’s private. I guess I didn’t want to be defined by it. And maybe I’m not defined by it, but I’m certainly dictated by it.” He continued, “Its looming threat has shaped almost every major decision ...