Greg Johnson Announces Vine Street Stories 30th Anniversary Tour
Greg Johnson returns from Los Angeles in April 2025 for a six-date national tour celebrating his iconic album Vine Street Stories, originally released in 1995.
November 2024
Heretic – Dir: Scott Beck & Bryan Woods (13th Floor Film Review)
Heretic is a beautifully unsettling psychological horror film by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, one that relies on flawless performances, excruciating pacing, and razor-sharp writing to create an atmosphere of dread that crawls beneath your skin and permeates relentlessly throughout the 111-minute runtime.
Dylan Storey – Prisoner: 13th Floor New Song Of The Day
Dylan Storey has been busy…but not too busy to write, record and release this new song, titled Prisoner.
Michael Kiwanuka – Small Changes (Polydor)
Michael Kiwanuka, a British singer-songwriter born in London to Ugandan parents, has steadily evolved his musical style since his 2012 debut, Home Again. Initially recognised for his retro-soul sound, Kiwanuka expanded his artistic horizons with Love & Hate in 2016, collaborating with producers Danger Mouse (Brian Burton) and Inflo (Dean Josiah Cover).
Bob Mould – The Powerstation: November 23, 2024
Bob Mould went solo electric at Auckland’s Powerstation last night. The 13th Floor’s Lawrence Mikkelsen reports back and Chris Zwaagdyk supplies the photos.
Squanderers – Theme For Viewer At Home: 13th Floor New Song Of The Day
SQUANDERERS are the glowingly new—2024 vintage—trio of guitarists Wendy Eisenberg and David Grubbs alongside multi-instrumentalist and legendary producer Kramer. Having begun SQUANDERERS as a duo in 2023 for Kramer’s “Rings of Saturn” box set, Grubbs & Kramer now enter the arena of live performance with the addition of bona-fide guitar slayer Eisenberg, a dream of a foil to Grubbs’s […]
New Music Friday: 13th Floor New Album Picks: November 22, 2024
New Music Friday is with us once more and we have a bounty of new music to tell you about…new albums from Michael Kiwanuka, Kim Deal, Sally Stockwell, Father John Misty and The Coward Brothers (Elvis & T-Bone).
The Cult – Spark Arena: November 21, 2024 (13th Floor Concert Review)
The Cult returned to Auckland, eight years to the day after their previous show at The Powerstation putting on a show that was, in Ian Asbury’s words, “way better than last time”.
Spotlights & Threat.Meet.Protocol – Whammy Bar: November 21, 2024
Not yet of an age where seated concerts by The Cult are justifiable, youthful (in my mind) 13th Floor Reviewer Simon Coffey chose instead to hang out with the young(er) folk as American Ipecac recording artists Spotlights kicked off their debut Aotearoa Tour at Whammy. Here is Simon Coffey’s review and subpar Photos (you can […]
Andy Paley Has Died At Age 72: R.I.P.
Andy Paley, power-popper, producer and songwriter has died at the age of 72 from cancer while in hospice care in Vermont.