Dropkick Murphys – This Machine Still Kills Fascists
Dropkick Murphys are one of those rarities in the American music scene, a staunchly left-wing band, which in American terms means pro Unions and voting either Democratic Party or Green party.
Avantdale Bowling Club – Trees (Album Review)
Avantdale Bowling Club (aka Tom Scott) releases new album, Trees, tomorrow. The 13thfloor’s Jeff Neems shares his thoughts today.
Tami Neilson – Kingmaker (Neilson Records)
Tami Neilson has a guest. His name is Willie Nelson. But one listen to the title track to Tami’s new album will convince you that she needs no help from any man to make her voice heard.
Christine McVie – Songbird: A Solo Collection (Warner)
Christine McVie has assembled something different here, not a career retrospective, not a greatest hits package, but a selection of solo tracks remixed and re-produced by Glyn Johns.
T-Bone – Good ‘n Greasy: 13th Floor Album Review
T-Bone are five guys based in New Zealand but with global connections, and Good ‘n Greasy is their debut album showcasing their mastery of American Roots music. Which is both ancient and timeless, and doesn’t have any necessary fashions to follow.
Thomas Isbister – #8: 13th Floor Album Review
Thomas Isbister could be the most prolific musician in New Zealand with #8 being his ninth album in just over two years. Like the paintings which grace all the covers, it is music of Impressionist textures and ambience. Rather than the immediate gratification of a sugar burst of Pop earworms, the hooks reveal themselves on […]
Jackie Bristow – Anthology Lounge Auckland, 28 April 2022: Concert Review
Jackie Bristow begins the show tonight with Whistle Blowin’ and immediately her soulful voice sends evocative shivers around the Anthology Lounge. Jackie is promoting her brand-new album Outsider which has received huge interest in the Indie music press in America. This tour started in Nelson and is goin’ up the country before finishing at her […]
Hybrid Rose – HyperKunt: 13th Floor Album Review
Hybrid Rose is Wellington Dance Pop artist Rose Windeler and HyperKunt lays out sharp catchy earworms of songs with wonderfully irreverent black humour.
Bonnie Raitt – Just Like That… (Redwing)
Bonnie Raitt releases her 21st album and Just Like That…we are back to that warm, happy place where blues, folk and rock come together to make something magical.
50 Foot Wave Black Pearl (Fire): Album Review
50 Foot Wave unleash a tsunami of sound on this, the trio’s second full-length album and first since 2005.
Wet Leg – Wet Leg (Domino): Album Review
Wet Leg have been threatening to make good on the promise of their debut single, the June 2021 earworm, Chaise Longue. Now, with the release of this, their self-titled debut album, they make good on that promise.
Guerilla Toss – Famously Alive: 13th Floor Album Review
Guerilla Toss fashion their style of Funk’n’Dance Pop into a breakout album Famously Alive, which they will be hoping for with new label Sub Pop Records. Written and worked into shape over the last two years of the heavy spirit of contagion, which they do remarkably well in lifting the curse.
BENEE – Lychee: 13th Floor EP Review
BENEE the Pop Wonderkid from Auckland New Zealand takes flight on EP Lychee, combining contemporary Dance Pop ambience with some of the bright sunshine of the Sixties Moment.
Aldous Harding – Warm Chris (Flying Nun)
Aldous Harding serves up another round of sonic specialties…10 new songs that she describes as “wilder but cleaner”.
Ocean Child – Songs of Yoko Ono – Various Artists: 13th Floor Album Review
Ocean Child – Songs of Yoko Ono is a superlative collection of contemporary Dream Pop songs which sound like healing spells for troubled times. Yoko Ono first met John Lennon late in 1966. After the pinnacle of Revolver and prior to the exalted Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. It may require an opening of […]
Hoodoo Gurus – Chariot Of The Gods (Big Time)
Hoodoo Gurus come bursting out of the gates with their first new album in over a decade. With time off due to COVID, this chariot’s wheels are on fire!
Jackie Bristow – Outsider: 13th Floor Album Review
Jackie Bristow takes us on a heartfelt journey through Americana drenched in a spirit of Blue-Eyed Soul. A seasoned songwriter and performer who is able to commune with the Heartland in a similar fashion to long time People’s Bard, Springsteen.
Eddie Vedder – Earthling: 13th Floor Album Review
Eddie Vedder playing the Bowie role for once, descends through the stratosphere as Earthling, and breathes life back into the Planet of Music, rouses us all to stop the sleepwalking – if you have ears to listen and something in between.
Cowboy Junkies – Songs Of The Recollection (Latent)
Cowboy Junkies assemble a collection of covers two years after their last studio album, Ghosts.
Michael James Keane – Wandering Bull (Meow)
Michael James Keane, self-proclaimed singer, songwriter and stonemason, unveils his second album, Wandering Bull.