Soft Bait – Josh Hunter’s Life Advice: 13th Floor MusicTalk Interview
Auckland band Soft Bait have just released their second album, Life Advice, today…their first for the Flying Nun label.
July 2025
Billy Strings – Spark Arena: July 22, 2025 (13th Floor Concert Review)
Billy Strings was a pickin’, and we were a grinnin’ as he and his four compadres treated a nearly-full Spark Arena to nearly two and a half hours of primo Bluegrass music.
This Silent Divide – City Lights: 13th Floor New Song Of The Day
Wellington rock band This Silent Divide today released their new single and music video for City Lights. The band mix driving drums, wall-of-sound guitars and melodic overtones to create catchy, high-energy songs. City Lights was recorded and mixed by producer Toby Lloyd at Wellington’s Tiny Triumph Recordings.
Folk Bitch Trio – Now Would Be A Good Time (Jagjaguwar)
The name Folk Bitch Trio is punky, provocative, even a little tongue-in-cheek, but the music on their debut album Now Would Be A Good Time is quietly radical in a different way.
Billie Marten – Dog Eared (Fiction) (13th Floor Album Review)
British singer Billie Marten has just released her new album Dog Eared, a jazz-folk record reminiscent of softness and a departure from her previous styles. Across the album’s tracklist, Marten traverses major themes while effortlessly mixing intense production with contemplative lyricism.
Fly My Pretties – Nice N’ Easy: 13th Floor New Song Of The Day
New Zealand’s eclectic musical collective Fly My Pretties present Nice N’ Easy, the first taste of the upcoming deluxe version of their new album, ELEMENTAL.
Ozzy Osbourne: Black Sabbath Frontman & Prince of Darkness Has Died Age 76 – R.I.P.
We here at The 13th Floor are reeling from the news that Ozzy Osbourne has died, age 76, just weeks after his historic reunion with his Black Sabbath bandmates.
One To One: John & Yoko Dir: Kevin MacDonald & Sam Rice-Edward (13th Floor NZIFF Review)
Think you know everything about Beatle John? Even if you do, One To One: John & Yoko is a film that will stand as a stark reminder of just how passionate and important his and Yoko’s activism was in the early 1970s.
Infinity Sessions – Winter 2025: Make Us Feel Good About Life – MUFGAL
Neil Finn and Roundhead Studios are thrilled to announce a midwinter pick me up… a series of INFINITY SESSIONS to “Make Us Feel Good About Life” ( MUFGAL) and bring great music & mirth to the people of New Zealand and beyond as a mid winter pick me up.
Soft Bait – Life Advice (Flying Nun) (13th Floor Album Review)
Formed in 2020 in Tāmaki Makaurau, Soft Bait are a band that took shape before they ever took the stage. Their debut, Plot Points, written and recorded before playing a single gig, was literary, brooding post-punk built on relentless rhythm and tight, coiled tension.