Five years ago today! Gizz Live in Melbourne 21. This was the third microtonal show in Naarm in 4 days, but the first to include zero non-microtonal songs. LW was also scheduled for release on this date, but dropped a day early (2/25) on their Bandcamp. bootleggizzard.bandcamp.com/album/live-i...

To do this, anti-trans lawmakers in Kansas moved fast to change the law, overrode the governor’s veto, and pushed for the legal changes to go into effect nearly immediately. That kind of power—to void gender on official documents, to compel gender conformity—is terrifying and it will not stop here.

The anti-trans campaign is a fabricated culture war meant to distract our attention from the wealthy criminals that continue to pillage society. Real people are facing real terror because of it. Hope y'all can understand why some of us are a HARD PASS on supporting any politician who enables this.

Not Gizz but happy 4th birthday to this monolith. Really hoping for a Timewave-style BI set at FOV this year. tidal.com/album/207040...

Wrapping up #KGLWednesday with a recommendation from @kglwoftheday.bsky.social Let’s Fukn Go! Y’all have a wonderful evening, enjoy the show! ✌️❤️🦎 youtu.be/FIVz6yWF4zs

Holy shit, 2/25/23 melted my brain this AM. Best Slow Jam->Sense I've ever heard, loaded with haunted, melancholic jamming and synth textures. The Shanghai is a showstopper with a lengthy outro jam reminiscent of 90s Tortoise. And there's a huge, heavy Gaia with Motor Spirit teases in there, too.

Still my favorite studio album. Love you forever FMB.

Hmmmmm..... (from today's pdoom newsletter)

Candiru is out #kglw youtu.be/KQ-xry29D2s

A year and two days after the first marathon and Eric's last show, Gizz returned to the stage in Naarm for a mostly microtonal show, debuting 14 songs from KG and LW plus Reticent Raconteur for good measure.

Happy 13th birthday to Eyes Like The Sky! Still not sure how I feel about this album, but it's pretty rad that they were willing to try something this bold early on. RIP Broderick. tidal.com/track/294038...

Big day in Gizztory - the Bush Fire benefit in Naarm 2-21-20 was Eric's last show with the band, the first-ever marathon, and the last show before the pandemic. Formidable setlist and an excellent performance, though the AUD is boomy with lots of crowd noise. Maybe an OB will surface someday...

Not sure what people got from night 2 Athens that earned it the Gizzy for best 2025 Europe show - it's not even in my top 5 - but I will say this Iron Lung is maybe the best I've heard. tidal.com/track/442751...

All the people failing to understand that the tariff ruling is a win for corporations and that win just happened to give Trump a bad day are going to make me despair. You don't need to cheer on the architects of another win for corporations just because Trump got mad about it for a couple hours.

For Billy Cavanagh - best plumber in the world! My favorite version ever, find it on youtube for full-value shenanigans

Any-Thing's FOV box set is finished!! Looks damn good

Talk about a hidden gem... missing the first set, and a tragically timed reel flip in the second, but what survives of 2/19/73 is hot as shit. Great jamming all over, sweet vocals, and Phil is INSANE in the Other One

Show me your Uber driver

why is technology people are using to make videos of a smurf having rough sex with chris griffin a better investment than solar energy? explain that to me before accusing me of rejecting “tech”

Here's a monster from 2/18/18 in Melbourne - 2 sets, 5 debuts and 3 bustouts, and a microtonal Crumbling Castle outro to Doom City. Hell of a way to kick off 2018. tapes.kglw.net/2018-02-18

There are free DAWs, free VSTs, pretty much everything you need to make music on a computer, which they assume you already own, are available for free or very little. The only thing Suno is doing is stealing the rewarding parts of music-making from you. It's a vending machine, not a kitchen.

The acting director of ICE told Congress, under oath, that local law enforcement in Colorado leaked raid plans, allowing gang members to escape. After 9NEWS questioned ICE's claim and its timeline, ICE deleted the claim from its social media platforms.

Taper transeuropa got a full video of the show Feb 15 2016 in Manchester UK. Vintage 2016 setlist with a rare Evil Man thrown in. This is a sick, high-energy set and the sound quality is pretty darn good.

Dunno if I could pick a favorite but this is a really good one.

February stack

Food is great. It Unites us as a Country of diverse tastes. Kind of a true equalizing force Isn't it neat to Come together Enjoying our memories?

2/12/11: the earliest bootleg of a "real show" in existence*, a Forte Mag party at Geelong Gaol Museum, billed as "King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizards". Thankfully Stu did not, in fact, get fried and leave the band, but I'm not convinced he's "just a normal person."

There's lots of strange Gizz performances from 2015/2016 but this has to be one of the weirdest. You just have to see it for yourself. Joey not getting the high five is hilarious.

few of us paid attention to COVID-19 until it was too late and then we were all swept by surprise by the pandemic i fear the same is true of ai’s impacts on everything we do criticizing the technology and making potshots at its ability feels like saying “it can’t happen here” until it does

There is literally no better example of textbook fascistic thinking than "Who cares about human rights when the rich are doing so very well"

Gonna tell my kids this was Smaug Listen to Melbourne '21 for #kglwednesday

Very exciting mail day. Been trying to get a hold of Dicks 18 for a while! Millions Now Living has been a favorite record since high school and I love the silver/blue wax on this pressing. Thanks @buymycomics.com for hooking up the vinyl.

Some photos from this show 😁

Forgot to post yesterday - Gizz played the PBS Drive Live festival on Feb 8, 2013. Lots of songs that don't get played anymore, AND the first performance of Head On/Pill! tapes.kglw.net/2013-02-08

I was listening to the 12/11/72 Dark Star at work and the feedback section came on and my coworkers asked if something in the lab was broken, then complained about my "awful music". Might throw on the Barca Magenta/Grim Reaper next just to feel something.

Also apropos of nothing since we are still in the slow time of year for Gizz bootlegs - one of the best pre-OB shows is Aug 22 18 in Schorndorf, a killer set bookended by a one-of-a-kind Krautrock jam and a massive Am I In Heaven tapes.kglw.net/2018-08-22

Posting about the uncontained dumpster fire feels important but also sometimes it's good to find a breath of life and light instead of burning trash, and today I offer to you the 48th birthday of the best Scarlet Fire that wasn't played in May 77

This is my favorite long title/great song combo (at this specific moment anyway) Don Caballero - In The Absence of Strong Evidence to the Contrary, One May Step Out of the Way of the Charging Bull

Martinez ends her testimony with this: "If there's not justice for the people, let there be no peace for the government."

Tfw you get a text like this unexpectedly from a Gizz-curious friend 🥲 tidal.com/track/482454...

Yall have heard the Lowlands 23 Hypertension/Magma with Oskar Carls of VB on noise sax, right? No?? Well, today's the day. I don't make the rules. www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8Wa...

Hey in case you didn't know, fuck Gavin Newsom

Another January day, another primal Gizz show lost to time... Thinking a lot about the LA 24 Robot Stop lately, specifically the insane Hawkwind x Tool jam at its core, the first and only appearance of Master of the Universe since 2018. youtu.be/1sxeyww8miI?...

Happened to check Clearsky yesterday and I'm on at least one liberal's anti-leftist block list. Kinda felt like an honor tbh.

I think now's a good time to remind everyone that Spotify started by taking shit off the Pirate Bay and hosting it without even talking to the major labels they're now teaming up with. I just think that's a fun tidbit.

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

I am once again asking that people understand this won't change a goddamn thing and full abolition is the only option Thanks again, Dems, for your loyal opposition

Nothing I have seen of the way that ICE agents carry themselves and interact with people- contemptuous thugs brutalizing anyone they think they can and murdering whoever they like- makes me think getting rid of Greg Bovino will change how rank file and file members behave. It's all got to go.