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R.E.M, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, Chelsea Wolfe and more to appear on Good Music To Lift Los Angeles, a 90-song benefit album to help victims of the Californian wildfires, available for one day only

Good Music To Lift Los Angeles will also feature songs from Tenacious D, Interpol, My Morning Jacket, TV on the Radio, HEALTH and many, many more

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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

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Classic Rock's Ultimate 2024 Playlist

Icons and a-listers, retro bangers and psychedelic party-starters, firebrands, punks and alt.rockers - they’re all here

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Dirty Three, Amyl and the Sniffers and Emily Wurramara: the best Australian albums of 2024

Revelatory comebacks, career highlights, old-school riffs and a brave and radical debut. Your guide to Australia’s best music

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King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard drop new track Phantom Island and announce that they'll be heading out on tour with an orchestra

"We have an orchestra now haha"

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“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

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“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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The 10 psych-rock bands you need to be listening to right now

The world's best psych-rock bands are ready to take you on cosmic trips you'll never forget brothers and sisters. Strap in!

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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

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“A dream come true, I’ll never forget it”: Jay Weinberg guests with King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard

Jay Weinberg guests with King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard

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"Side Quest Summer continues!": Watch former Slipknot drummer Jay Weinberg join King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard on stage for thrash banger Perihelion

Ex-Slipknot drummer Jay Weinberg accompanied psych wizards King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard on stage this weekend during their show in Nashville

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King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard: Flight b741 review – a cheerfully rocking album about global collapse

Channelling garage bands, Little Feat and more, the prolific Aussies pair nihilistic lyrics with 70s-style riffs in a darkly enjoyable romp

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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

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The best new rock songs you need to hear right now

Including Larkin Poe, Blues Pills, Joanne Shaw Taylor and five other future rock superstars

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“It’s not a sci-fi record, it’s about life and stuff.” King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard prepare next month's Flight b741 album for lift-off with release of video for Le Risque

King Gizzard... offer first taste of their 26th studio album with a salute to life's risk-takers

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“Been working real hard on this one... thanks for flying.” King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard will release their 26th studio album Flight b741 next month

Please fasten your safety belts, King Gizzard are about to take to the skies once more

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"OMG! Pack ur bags cuz we’re going on vacay." King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard announce Europe Residency dates

Melbourne's musical mavericks King Gizzard to return to Europe next summer

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“We’ll spend hours trying to get the grossest, most evil sounds we can. We DI’ed a fuzz and it sounded like vomiting”: Battlesnake are the triple-guitar lovechild of Queen, King Gizzard and Judas Priest you never knew you needed

We meet Australia’s three-headed metal guitar hydra –are you prepared for Battlesnake?

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"True originals, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard are hurtling towards cult legend status." The five best bands we saw at Wide Awake festival 2024

Independent music fest Wide Awake lights up London's Brockwell Park once again

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The big London festival guide for summer 2024: from All Points East to Cross The Tracks

No Glasto? No problem! From Kylie to SZA, many of music’s biggest names are flocking to the capital this summer – here’s where to catch them

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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

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Architects, Enter Shikari, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard and more sign an open latter asking for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, while Bob Vylan call IDLES and Sleaford Mods "cowardly" for not speaking out on the bombing of Palestine

"This idea that ‘a band won’t end a war’ is such a foolish way to view using platforms of visibility"

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Aria awards 2023: hip-hop artist Genesis Owusu leads nominations

Rapper scoops seven nominations for Australia’s premier music prize, while Dom Dolla, Troye Sivan, G Flip, Budjerah and DMA’s receive multiple nods

The Guardian - UK

End of the Road festival review – all killer no filler in a truly magical setting

Wilco and Future Islands share the same zealous audiences as newcomers Fat Dog and the Last Dinner Party in a carefully curated weekend of constant surprises

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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

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