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Grow Wings And Fly
"Grow Wings and Fly" is the third single from the album ''Phantom Island (album), Phantom Island'' by the Rock Music, rock band King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard. Background "Grow Wings and Fly" originally began as a continuation of "Shanghai", however, the first mention of it as a separate track was at the 2024 Germania Insurance Amphitheatre show in Austin, Texas. It was then announced as a part of ''Phantom Island (album), Phantom Island'' on 15 April, on the band's Instagram. Release The first verse mirrors the lyrics of "Shanghai", off of ''Butterfly 3000'', and the theme mirrors "Le Risque", off of ''Flight b741'', as the song's lyrics are about taking risks, casting off self-doubt, and living life to its fullest. Reception It has been called a "breezy tune" by Stereogum, and Spin (magazine), Spin magazine said "King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard soar heavenward with the smily, major-key jam 'Grow Wings and Fly'. Music video The music video, which was directed by Hayden Somer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard (KGLW) are an Australian Rock music, rock band formed in 2010 in Melbourne, Victoria. The band's current lineup consists of Stu Mackenzie (vocals, guitar), Ambrose Kenny-Smith (vocals, harmonica, keyboards), Cook Craig (guitar, keyboards, vocals), Joey Walker (guitar, vocals), Lucas Harwood (bass, vocals), and Michael Cavanagh (drummer), Michael Cavanagh (drums, vocals). They are known for exploring multiple Music genre, genres, staging energetic live shows, and building King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard discography, a prolific discography. The band's early releases blended surf music and garage rock and were released on their label, Flightless (record label), Flightless. They released several Psychedelic rock, psychedelic and progressive rock albums in the early 2010s, and incorporated a broader range of musical styles later in the decade, such as jazz fusion on ''Quarters!'' and the Folk music, folk-inspired ''Paper Mâché Dream Balloon''. In 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stereogum
''Stereogum'' is a daily Internet publication that focuses on music news, reviews, interviews, and commentary. The site was created in January 2002 by Scott Lapatine. ''Stereogum'' was one of the first MP3 blogs and has received several awards and citations, including the PLUG Award for Music Blog of the Year, '' Blender''s Powergeek 25, and '' Entertainment Weekly''s Best Music Websites. The site was named an Official Honoree of the Webby Awards in the music category and won the OMMA Award for Web Site Excellence in the Entertainment/Music category. In 2011, ''Stereogum'' won '' The Village Voice''s Music Blog of the Year. History The site was named after a lyric from the song "Radio #1" by the French electronic duo Air. In late 2006, ''Stereogum'' received an investment from Bob Pittman's private investment entity The Pilot Group. In November 2007, it was purchased by SpinMedia (formerly known as Buzz Media). April 2008 saw the launch of '' Videogum'', a sister site f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Under The Radar (magazine)
''Under the Radar'' is an American music magazine that features interviews with accompanying photo-shoots. Each issue includes opinion and commentary of the indie music scene as well as reviews of books, DVDs, and albums. The magazine posts web-exclusive interviews and reviews on its website. Items are reviewed based on a rating system in which each album, book, and DVD receives a rating from 1 to 10. The magazine has been in publication since late 2001 and is issued three times per year. The magazine was founded by co-publishers (and husband and wife) Mark Redfern and Wendy Lynch Redfern, who currently run the magazine. Mark is the magazine's Senior Editor and writes many of the magazine's articles. Wendy is the Creative Director and lays out each issue. She is also a music photographer and conducts photo-shoots for the magazine, including many of its covers. Contents It was the first American magazine to interview the following non-American bands: the Aliens, the Besnard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stu Mackenzie
Stuart Douglas Mackenzie (born 26 October 1990) is an Australian musician best known as the frontman of rock band King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard. He serves as singer, guitarist and multi-instrumentalist for the band and is recognized as its leader, a role he has filled since its formation in 2010. Mackenzie formed King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard as a casual band for his friends in the Melbourne music scene to play together in without needing to rehearse or practice. They have since recorded 27 studio albums. Under his leadership, they have come to be considered an important band of their generation, largely thanks to their cultivation of a devoted following through consistent touring and releases. Early life Stuart Douglas Mackenzie was born on 26 October 1990, in Victoria. His mother is a nurse, and his father had worked in environmental policy and local government. The family would move frequently during his childhood, and he would spend portions of his childhood in An ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucas Harwood
Lucas Harwood () is an Australian bassist known for his role in King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard as well as Atolls and Heavy Moss. Biography Early life Harwood is a native of Geelong, Victoria. When he was a child his parents took him to music festivals such as the Port Fairy Folk Festival and the Queenscliff Music Festival which helped foster his love for music. Harwood had been in a garage band before joining King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, and said band kicked out their bassist, with Harwood transitioning from guitar to bass to pick up the slack. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard Since 2010 Skinner has been the lead bassist for King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. Although not a member of the original trio of Eric Moore, Joey Walker and Stu Mackenzie, Harwood would be with the band in its earliest form, joining as the fourth member as a student project for a RMIT course on Contemporary Music Performance. Harwood said that his favorite part of being in the band is th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Cavanagh (drummer)
Michael "Mickey" Cavanagh is an Australian drummer best known for being the drummer for King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, while he has also released a solo album under the pen-name CAVS. Musical career Cavanagh grew up in Deniliquin, New South Wales and was drawn to drumming at an early age. Cavanagh became the drummer for a band called The Houses which was formed in 2005 and by 2010 consisted of him, Lucas Skinner, Blaise Adamson, and Stu Mackenzie. However, despite this, he was not an original member of King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, which was formed by Mackenzie, Joey Walker, and Eric Moore (drummer), Eric Moore in 2010, rather, he joined the band via an audition. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard Cavanagh would join the band as their dedicated drummer, with Eric Moore as the band's manager. However, Moore, who also played drums for Love Migrate, started being the band's second drummer as their songs became more complex. Besides their King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joey Walker
Joseph William Quinn Walker (born 11 October 1988) is an Australian musician, singer, and producer who is best known as one of the three guitarists for the band King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard. Walker was previously part of the electronic duo Trumpdisco (now SUB-human) and indie rock band Love Migrate. He also releases solo works under the name Bullant. Early life and career Walker was born in Northern Australia and raised in the towns of Darwin, Kununurra, and Alice Springs, where he got into local indigenous rock bands such as Yothu Yindi and Warumpi Band when first getting into music. He saw both of these acts perform at the Stompen Ground festival of 1992. He later discovered progressive acts such as Tool as a teenager, leading him to earlier progressive rock bands such as Yes. Walker eventually moved to Melbourne. While in high school, Walker met Alex Braithwaite who moved to Melbourne from England. Braithwaite introduced Walker to UK drum and bass, inspiring the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cook Craig
Nicholas Roderick "Cook" Craig is an Australian musician, singer and songwriter and is a part of groups King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard and the Murlocs. Craig releases music under the name Pipe-eye. Solo history Pipe-eye's debut EP ''Cosmic Blip'' was released in 2015. The EP was recorded in his bedroom in Fairfield, Victoria. Nicholas Johnson from Brag Magazine gave the EP 4 out of 5 saying "Pipe-Eye knows how to spit some serious cosmic wisdom. Then they leave you to ponder it over the course of the 30 to 60 second segue tracks that pepper the record. It adds a nice buffer to what is otherwise essentially a four-track EP by giving it a theatrical feel… It may not resonate with everyone, I'm sure some will feel cheated by the 50 per cent split between songs and noisy interludes. But it gives the songs – all of which would stand quite nicely as singles – a little bit of breathing space without the risk of adding half-baked tracks for the sake of filler." Pipe-eye's de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ambrose Kenny-Smith
The Murlocs are an Australian rock band from Melbourne. They are composed of Ambrose Kenny-Smith on vocals and harmonica, Cal Shortal on guitar, Cook Craig on bass guitar, Tim Karmouche on keyboards, and Matt Blach on drums. They were formed in 2011 by Ambrose Kenny-Smith, and they have released seven studio albums since then. They are signed to Flightless Records, and many of the band members are a part of other bands signed to Flightless, including King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard and ORB. Their sound is a mix of rock and R&B, with the distorted harmonica of Kenny-Smith providing the band with a distinctive sound. History The Murlocs were formed in 2010 in Ocean Grove, Geelong, Australia. According to Ambrose Kenny-Smith, their name was derived from the mythology of the oracle. In Kenny-Smith's words, "A murloc ... a creature in world of warcraft". They released their first EP, their self-titled project ''The Murlocs'', in March 2012. This was followed closely by another E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hayden Somerville
Hayden may refer to: Places Inhabited places in the United States *Hayden, Alabama *Hayden, Arizona *Hayden's Ferry, former name of Tempe, Arizona *Hayden, California, former name of Hayden Hill, California *Hayden, Colorado *Hayden, Idaho *Hayden Lake, Idaho * Hayden, Indiana *Hayden Island, Portland, Oregon, an island and neighborhood Geographic features in the United States *Hayden Butte or Tempe Butte, an andesite butte of volcanic origin in Tempe, Arizona * Hayden Creek (other) * Hayden Mountain (other) * Hayden Peak (Utah), a mountain in Utah * Hayden Valley, a large sub-alpine valley in Yellowstone National Park Other places * Hayden, Gloucestershire, a village in the UK People and fictional characters * Hayden (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters *Hayden (surname), including a list of people and fictional characters *Hayden (musician) (born 1971), a Canadian folk musician Other uses *Hayden (electronics company), a British g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spin (magazine)
''Spin'' (stylized in all caps as ''SPIN'') is an American music magazine founded in 1985 by publisher Bob Guccione Jr. Now owned by Next Management Partners, the magazine is an online publication since it stopped issuing a print edition in 2012. It returned as a quarterly publication in September 2024. History Early history ''Spin'' was established in 1985 by Bob Guccione, Jr. In August 1987, the publisher announced it would stop publishing ''Spin'', but Guccione Jr. retained control of the magazine and partnered with former MTV president David H. Horowitz to quickly revive the magazine. During this time, it was published by Camouflage Publishing with Guccione Jr. serving as president and chief executive and Horowitz as investor and chairman. In its early years, ''Spin'' was known for its narrow music coverage, with an emphasis on college rock, grunge, indie rock, and the ongoing emergence of hip-hop, while virtually ignoring other genres, such as country and metal. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Relix
''Relix'', originally and occasionally later ''Dead Relix'', is a magazine that focuses on live and improvisational music. The magazine was launched in 1974 as a handmade newsletter devoted to connecting people who recorded Grateful Dead concerts. It rapidly expanded into a music magazine covering a wide number of artists. It is the second-longest continuously published music magazine in the United States after ''Rolling Stone''. The magazine is published eight times a year and , had a circulation of 102,000. Peter Shapiro currently serves as the magazine's publisher and Dean Budnick and Mike Greenhaus currently serve as Editor-in-Chief. Origins Les Kippel, a native of Brooklyn, was the founder of the First Free Underground Grateful Dead Tape Exchange in 1971 that recorded and traded live Grateful Dead concert tapes for free. As the popularity of trading live concerts on tape increased, a practice the Grateful Dead allowed and ultimately encouraged, Kippel realized that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
