Stu Mackenzie: Last News

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard have shared ‘Hate Dancin”, the lead single from their 23rd studio album (and third this month) ‘Changes’.The song follows on from the release of their album ‘Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms and Lava’ on October 7, and its follow-up ‘Laminated Denim’ just five days later on October 12.In a press statement about the song, frontman Stu Mackenzie offered a succinct, one-sentence description: “I started writing a song about how I hate dancing, but then I realised that I love dancing.” To Mackenzie’s point, the music video for ‘Hate Dancin” depicts him and his bandmates dancing to the song in a warehouse.It was directed by John Angus Stewart, who has worked on several videos and concert films for the band across their career. Watch the video below:‘Changes’ is set to arrive on October 28 and is a seven-track album, with each song title’s first letter acrostically spelling out the titular word.

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard have announced a new album, ‘FLIGHT b741’.The release, the band’s 26th studio album, is set to come out on August 9 via their own p(doom) Records, and its lead single is set to arrive on July 9.The prolific Australian rockers last released an album, ‘The Silver Cord’, in October 2023. It was their third album of the year, so the band have been relatively quiet in 2024 by their usual (incredibly productive) standards.“Been working real hard on this one. So excited for you all to hear it!” wrote lead vocalist Stu Mackenzie on Instagram as he announced the new album.A post shared by kinggizzard (@kinggizzard)King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard are also heading off on a North American tour supported by the likes of New York post-punks Geese and Australian surf rockers King Stingray from next month, beginning with a show at Washington D.C.’s The Anthem.

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard have shared more details on their upcoming album, ‘FLIGHT b741’, and the video for its lead single, ‘Le Risque’.The title is French for “the risk” – with many fans already noting it marks the first time the band’s drummer, Michael Cavanagh – “Cavs” – has a lead vocal. “Song about taking risks and we see cavs doing non backing vocals for the first time, love to see it,” wrote one fan underneath the YouTube video, with another joking: “No way we got Cavs vocals before GTA 6.”The video, which you can view below, features the band in an aircraft hangar, in keeping with the new album’s flight theme.

Ethan Shanfeld King Gizzard & the Wizard Lizard, the prolific Australian rock act known for traversing genres, is returning to thrash metal with a new album titled “Petrodragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnation.” Bet you can’t say that three times fast. “Petrodragonic Apocalypse,” the band’s 24th album, is out June 16 via their KGLW label. In tandem with the announcement, King Gizzard released the record’s first single, “Gila Monster,” along with a spooky music video in which frontman Stu Mackenzie wears a cloak and sings atop a snowy mountain while the rest of the band gathers around a witch’s cauldron.

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard have released new album ‘Laminated Denim’, the second of three the ultra-prolific psych-rockers will share in October.The album was released on Wednesday (October 12), and consists of two tracks – ‘The Land Before Timeland’ and ‘Hypertension’ – both of which are exactly 15 minutes in length. ‘Laminated Denim’ serves as a spiritual successor to earlier album ‘Made In Timeland’ (which its title is an anagram of), which was released physically in March of this year before arriving digitally yesterday alongside ‘Laminated Denim’.“Like the last record, this one was created out of long improvised jams, but this time we also worked within the constraints of a ticking clock,” King Gizzard said of the new album when sharing news of its arrival on Twitter.

King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard have announced that they will release a slightly excessive three new studio albums next month. Although that will bring them up to a total of 23 in the space of the last ten years, and in that context maybe it’s not such an over the top plan.Rather than turning up to the studio with pre-written songs and demos, the plan for this trilogy was to create music in the moment. And so, over the course of seven days, the band turned up for recording sessions with no plan but to jam, each day picking a different scale and BPM to work on.“All we had prepared as we walked into the studio were seven song titles”, says frontman Stu Mackenzie.

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard have announced their next three new studio albums, all of which are set for release next month.The band shared the news on their social media pages earlier this morning (September 1), accompanied by a photo of three of the band’s members: frontman Stu Mackenzie, keyboardist/harmonica player Kenny Ambrose-Smith and drummer Michael Cavanaugh. In the photo, all three men are holding vinyl records; however, the artwork of each has been blurred out.The caption for the photo added that the band are “so excited to show you all” the as-yet-untitled albums.

Public Service Broadcasting have replaced Low on the line-up for All Points East Festival 2022.The move comes after Low cancelled their forthcoming UK and European shows yesterday (August 15) due to the “recent developments and changes” in Mimi Parker’s cancer treatment.Parker, who formed the band with her husband Alan Sparhawk in 1993, was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in December 2020.In a statement posted yesterday, Low said: “Recent developments and changes in treatment have made extensive travel impossible at this time. Our hope is that [Parker] will respond to new treatments and be able to play the shows we have scheduled for the fall, including the Water Is Life festival in Duluth on September 4.“We are very sorry for the inconvenience of ticket shuffling and travel expenses/changes.

Mogwai have replaced King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard for this year’s All Points East. View the updated line up below.The Scottish band will join The National on August 26 at Victoria Park along with Perfume Genius, Lucy Dacus, Kurt Vile and more.The announcement of King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard’s All Points East replacement comes after the band cancelled their UK and European dates due to a “personal health crisis”.

King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard have cancelled the remaining 13 dates of their current UK and European tour, citing frontman Stu Mackenzie’s newly revealed struggle with Crohn’s Disease.The Australian psych-rock outfit had completed four dates on the run, with the most recent being a headline show in Prague last night (August 5). Among their axed performances include a set at the POLandROCK Festival in Szczecinek, Poland, which was scheduled to go down tonight (August 6).“Unfortunately due to a personal health crisis we’re going to have to cancel the remaining EU and UK dates,” Mackenzie wrote in a statement shared to the band’s Instagram page overnight. “For the past decade or so I’ve dealt with Crohn’s Disease the best I can.

King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard have teased their 21st, 22nd and 23rd studio albums, telling fans that all three will arrive before the end of 2022.The announcement was made in a casual Tweet shared on Saturday (June 18), plainly reading: “3 more albums this year.” Should they accomplish the feat, King Gizzard will have a total of five albums under their belt for 2022: the vinyl-exclusive ‘Made In Timeland’ was released back in March, while ‘Omnium Gatherum’ – their first double album – landed in April.3 more albums this year— King Gizzard (@kinggizzard) June 17, 2022Earlier this month, the band confirmed they had completed at least two of their upcoming records, describing the material on them as “jammy and meandering, kinda funky-prog-something”. In an interview with Australian broadcaster triple j, guitarist Joey Walker explained: “They’re kind of a response to us not being able to get together and play during lockdowns.

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard have shared ‘Magenta Mountain’, the second single to be lifted from forthcoming album ‘Omnium Gatherum’ ahead of its release in April.The band’s latest is a spiralling, fuzzed-out odyssey with blistering guitars and glistening keys, as frontman Stu Mackenzie describes the titular, mystical summit. “You will say I’m crazy / I will go on my way because it’s what I need,” Mackenzie sings.