King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard To Embark on North American Tour

On the heels of a transformative and ultra-productive 2017 (releasing five studio albums) Melbourne's King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard return to the U.S. and Canada this spring for a major cross country tour hitting nineteen cities. The band will play their largest venues to date such as LA's Hollywood Palladium, San Francisco's Warfield Theatre, and three nights at NYC's Brooklyn Steel.

Amyl and the Sniffers, a self-described grimy pub rock band from Melbourne, Australia will join the 20-date tour as King Gizzard's main support. Amy Taylor (vocals), Bryce Wilson, (drums) Declan Martens (guitar) and Gus Romer (bass) are former housemates who formed the band, wrote a handful of tunes and released their debut EP, Giddy Up, all in a span of twelve hours. Amyl and the Sniffers took their cues from a diverse mix of genres including pub rock, Aussie punk, country and western and rap rave. They set out to have as much fun as possible and scared up a whole lot of fans along the way. The band's debut album is due out later this year. Watch the new video "Cup of Destiny"

As promised at the beginning of the year, King Gizzard successfully released an unprecedented five studio albums in 2017 with the release of Gumboot Soup arriving this past New Year's Eve. 2017's other previous four records - February's Flying Microtonal Banana, June's Murder of the Universe, August'sSketches of Brunswick East and November's Polygondwanaland - have all received critical acclaim and contributed to a whirlwind year for the band. Some benchmarks include their first Coachella performance, their worldwide TV debut on Conan and headlining sold out shows at landmark venues including two nights at Chicago's Lincoln Hall, two nights at New York City's Webster Hall and San Francisco's The Fillmore.

In years to come King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard will be judged not by their separate albums, but by a body of work where themes, melodies, motifs, riffs and ideas resurface and recur, each album peeling back a layer of the onion to glimpse at past and future alike.

NORTH AMERICAN TOUR

5/31 - Los Angeles, CA - Hollywood Palladium*

6/1 - San Diego, CA - Observatory North Park (Sold Out)*

6/2 - San Francisco, CA - The Warfield*

6/4 - Portland, OR - Crystal Ballroom*

6/5 - Vancouver, BC - The Malkin Bowl*

6/6 - Seattle, WA - Showbox Sodo*

6/7 - Missoula, MT - Monk's*

6/9 - Milwaukee MI - The Pabst Theater*

6/10 - Chicago, IL - Riviera*

6/11 - Detroit, MI - Majestic Theater (Sold Out)*

6/12 - Toronto, ON - Danforth Theater (Sold Out)*

6/13 - Montreal, QC - Olympia*

6/14 - Boston, MA - Royale (Sold Out)*

6/15 - Brooklyn, NY - Brooklyn Steel (Sold Out)*

6/16 - Brooklyn, NY - Brooklyn Steel (Sold Out)*

6/17 - Brooklyn, NY - Brooklyn Steel (Just Announced!)

6/18 - Philadelphia, PA - Union Transfer (Sold Out)*

6/19 - Asheville, NC - Orange Peel (Sold Out)*

6/20 - Atlanta, GA - Variety Playhouse*

6/21 - New Orleans, LA - Republic New Orleans*

6/22 - Austin, TX - Stubb's Outdoors - Waller Creek Amphitheatre*

*All dates with Amyl and the Sniffers

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