World Cafe Playlist for 08/14/2025

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard joins host Stephen Kallao

Last summer, King Gizzard and Lizard Wizard released their 26th album, Flight b741, their most collaborative album to date. But before World Cafe could tape our interview with them, the band announced a new album, this year’s Phantom Island. Exploring new sonic territory as usual, it’s their first record written and performed with an orchestra.

This is an ENCORE

Today’s Playlist

ZZ Top “Cheap Sunglasses” Deguello

King Gizzard & The Wizard Lizard “Field of Vision” Flight b741

King Gizzard & The Wizard Lizard “Raw Feel” Flight b741

King Gizzard & The Wizard Lizard “Phantom Island” Single

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard “Gamma Knife” Recorded Live for World Cafe

Redbone “Come And Get Your Love” Wovoka

Iron & Wine “All In Good Time (feat. Fiona Apple” Light Verse

Lianne La Havas “Green and Gold” Recorded Live for World Cafe

Turnstile “SEEIN’ STARS” Never Enough

Radiohead “Knives Out” Amnesiac

St. Vincent “Los Ageless” MASSEDUCATION

Hour Two
Jim James & Calexico “Goin’ To Acapulco” I’m Not There (soundtrack)

Charley Crockett “Crucified Son” Dollar A Day

Beck “Tropicalia” Mutations

Clairo “Sexy to Someone” Charm

King Gizzard & The Wizard Lizard “Deadstick” Phantom Island

Lindsey Buckingham & Christine McVie “Red Sun” Recorded Live for World Cafe

Paula Cole “Jolene” Recorded Live for World Cafe

The Wallflowers “6th Avenue Heartache” Recorded Live for World Cafe

Geese “Taxes” Getting Killed

Phoebe Bridgers “Motion Sickness” Strangers In The Alps

Maggie Rogers “Dog Years” Recorded Live for World Cafe

Haim “Everybody’s Trying To Figure Me Out” I Quit

R.E.M. “Strange Currencies (Remix)” Monster

Frank Turner “Peggy Sang The Blues” England Keep My Bones

Third Eye Blind “Jumper” Third Eye Blind