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King Gizzard’s Stu Mackenzie on leaving Spotify and making all their music free: ‘Sometimes you just forget that you have free will’

Australian band’s decision to remove catalogue in protest of CEO’s military investments an easy one, frontman says, and making music with friends remains ‘top of the triangle’

The Guardian - AU

'We don’t want our music killing people': Artists revolt against Spotify over AI warfare ties

Several artists, including King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, Deerhoof, and Xiu Xiu, are pulling their music from Spotify in protest of CEO Daniel Ek’s investment in an AI-powered military tech firm.

Euronews

“Whenever I feel like a guitar is indispensable, I want to pawn it. It’s held me back from being a good player”: Want to make as many records as King Gizzard & The Wizard Lizard? Abuse $10 amps, don’t bring songs to sessions and never get comfortable

Stu Mackenzie’s Australian troup have released 27 albums in 12 years, powered by a unique work ethic and ignoring how people describe the results. But they might just be starting to slow down

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‘We have a high appetite for risk’: inside King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard’s historic EU tour

Residencies in storied venues from a panopticon prison to an ancient amphitheatre gave an appropriate backdrop to the Australian band’s existential new record

The Guardian - UK

I’ve listened to every single King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard album and I can tell you that these are their five very best

Want to get into Australian psych-wizards King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard but intimidated by their 26 album-strong catalogue? Fear not, we've whittled down the lot to their finest five for your listening pleasure in this definitive list

Metal Hammer

“I bought eight small solid-state amps with tiny little speakers. We had no pedals on the record, just guitars, straight into the amp, turned up loud enough that it sounds nasty:” How King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard made a left turn – into blues rock

Flight b741 sees the prodigious band making nasty sounds beautiful and “going for the take thathad the boogie!” on a trip that reimagines ‘70s rock nostalgia

Guitar World

“I didn’t spend more than 20 or 30 bucks on any of them”: King Gizzard’s new album was recorded with amps from pawnshop chain Cash Converters

King Gizzard's Stu Mackenzie reveals that they didn't use a single pedal on this guitar, relying instead on cranking up small practice amps

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“He wants to come on stage and play Joey's guitar part with you guys to honor his friend. We'll do that”: Fan plays guitar onstage with King Gizzard in memory of his friend who died in an avalanche

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard performed the track Perihelion with fan Timmy at a recent show in Boston

Guitar World

Aussie rock band King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard gets nostalgic with 'Flight b741'

King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard is in their dad rock era — and not just because most of the band members now have kids

The Independent UK

Alien rhythms, god-level chops and samurai guitar duels: these are the best guitar albums of 2023

Guitar World staff and readers reflect on the finest fretwork captured on record this year

Guitar World

By the time you read this, King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard will probably have released another album

With 24 albums in just over a decade – and five last year alone – are King Gizzard challenging their fans to process too much music? "I think we are primarily challenging ourselves,” says Stu MacKenzie

Louder

King Gizzard rock out on new album PetroDragonic Apocalypse

King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard will release full on prog metal album PetroDragonic Apocalypse in June

Louder

‘They’re an endurance test!’ Will Taylor Swift begin the era of the three-hour concert?

With cash-strapped fans eager for epic setlists, Swift isn’t the only artist doing extra-long gigs – but performers and fans alike will need to toughen up

The Guardian - UK

King Gizzard, culture and a country community. Anglesea football club may well be Australia's coolest

A coastal community sings the praises of globetrotting Australian rock boundary busters for a women's team sponsorship that's having a positive impact beyond the footy ground.

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The Guardian - UK

‘Our synapses connected!’: King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard evolve again

The Australian psych-rockers released 15 albums in eight years, and then wrote five more during the pandemic. They explain how hopping through genres – even rap – helped them cope

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