Bands like Xiu Xiu (left) and Hotline TNT (right) recently pulled their music off Spotify, the world's largest streaming service. Eva Luise Hoppe; Graham Tolbert hide caption
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This week, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard release Flight b741, the prolific and peripatetic Australian band's 26th album. Maclay Heriot/Courtesy of the artist hide caption
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard's latest album is the metal-forward PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnation. Jason Galea/Courtesy of the artist hide caption
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King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard on World Cafe
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90 minutes of frenetic guitar playing from, quite literally, way down under. (KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD, 9:30 CLUB, WASHINGTON, D.C.) Bob Boilen/NPR hide caption
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard's new album, Flying Microtonal Banana, comes out Feb. 24. Lee Vincent Grubb/Courtesy of the artist hide caption
Sense Of Place Melbourne: King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard's new album, Nonagon Infinity, comes out April 29. Courtesy of the artist hide caption
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