In July, prolific Australian genre-benders King Gizzard & The Wizard joined the rising variety of artists exiting streaming platform Spotify in protest at firm CEO Daniel Ek’s €600m funding in German drone maker Helsing.
“Spotify CEO Daniel Ek invests hundreds of thousands in Al navy drone know-how,” the band wrote in July. “We simply eliminated our music from the platform. Can we put strain on these Dr. Evil tech bros to do higher?”
And now, as if to show that cash actually is not all the things, the band have taken all of the albums they faraway from Spotify and are promoting them on Bandcamp by way of their “Title Your Value” choice, which means that followers will pay $0.00 and upwards to obtain one of many albums.
The results of this spectacular generosity is that the present 27 best-selling albums on Bandcamp are all by King Gizzard & The Wizard Lizard, with 2023’s traditional PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Daybreak of Everlasting Evening: An Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Starting of Cruel Damnation topping the chart and the highest three rounded out by 2022’s doomy Omnium Gatherum and 2016’s Nonagon Infinity.
This run of interrupted chart dominance stops at quantity 28, with Christopher Larkin (one other Australian) interrupting the occasion along with his soundtrack for the online game Hole Knight: Silksong, earlier than regular service is resumed with one other 5 KGWL releases.
Different artists to have left Spotify in protest at Ek’s investments embody indie icons Deerhoof, shoegazers Hotline TNT and experimental rock band Xiu Xiu, whose departure assertion described Spotify as a “rubbish gap violent armageddon portal.”
King Gizzard & The Wizard Lizard’s European tour kicks off in late October. Full dates beneath.
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard: 2025 Tour
Oct 31: Manchester Aviva Studios, United Kingdom ^
Nov 01: London Electrical Brixton, United Kingdom ^
Nov 02: London Electrical Brixton, United Kingdom ^
Nov 04: London Royal Albert Corridor, United Kingdom *
Nov 05: Paris La Seine Musicale, France *
Nov 06: Tilburg 013 Poppodium, Netherlands ^
Nov 07: Den Bosch Mainstage, Netherlands *
Nov 09: Gdańsk Inside Seaside Competition, Poland *
Nov 10: Berlin Columbiahalle, Germany ^
Nov 11: Prague SaSaZu, Czech Republic ^
Nov 12: Vienna Gasometer, Austria ^
Nov 14: Copenhagen Poolen, Denmark ^
Nov 15: Gothenburg Gothenburg Movie Studios, Sweden ^
Dec 02: Sydney Opera Home, AU *
Dec 03: Sydney Opera Home, AU *
Dec 05: Sydney Enmore Theatre, AU #
Dec 07: Brisbane Fortitude Music Corridor, AU #
Dec 09: Brisbane The Princess Theatre, AU *
Dec 12: Melbourne Sidney Myer Music Bowl, AU %
Dec 13: Melbourne Sidney Myer Music Bowl, AU &
* = Orchestral present
^ = Rave present
# = Rock present with Occasion Dozen
% = Orchestral present with People Bitch Trio
& = Rock present with Barkaa
