Auckland experienced a musical Canadian invasion last night. While Toronto’s Shawn Mendes was putting smiles on pop fans’ faces at Spark Arena, Alberta-based Leslie Feist dazzled a spellbound crowd with her musicianship and songwriting skills.
All the old punks, and a few new ones, gathered at Auckland’s Tuning Fork last night to spend some time with a Sex Pistol. Original bass player Glen Matlock put on a solo acoustic show that may have put off folks looking for a night of anarchic anthems.
This was always going to be a hard sell…hours of previously unreleased live recordings from Dylan’s “Christian Period” when the former Mr Zimmerman preached fire and brimstone from three studio albums between 1987 and 1981.
Stevie Nicks brought her 24 Karat Gold Tour to Auckland for two shows this week. Fortunately, that also included bringing along The Pretenders.
Political punk rockers Downtown Boys are due to make their New Zealand concert debut on Tuesday, December 5th, at Auckland’s Whammy Bar. They are from Providence, Rhode Island, their most recent album, Cost Of Living, was produced by Fugazi’s Guy Picciotto, they’ve been compared to X Ray Spex and they’ve been called “America’s most exciting […]
While in Auckland earlier this week to perform at The Tuning Fork, Lindi Ortega stopped by The 13th Floor to play a couple of songs.
You probably know him as the guitarist for influential indie-rockers Pavement. But Spiral Stairs, aka Scott Kannberg, is heading to New Zealand in December to share a bill with Brooklyn-based indie-rockers Big Thief. The 13th Floor’s Marty Duda spoke to Scott Kannberg recently and found out what he’s been up to since the 2010 Pavement […]
A year and a month after her first foray to the Tuning Fork, Canadian songstress Lindi Ortega returned to the Auckland venue.
Self-styled “old school” R&B/soul singer Eric Benet is making his way down under for his very first New Zealand performance at The Studio in Auckland on November 24th. Benet has just released his new, self-titled, album and his itching to play it for Kiwi fans. The 13th Floor’s Marty Duda spoke to Eric Benet a […]
Greg Johnson stopped by The 13th Floor to play a couple of songs and talk to Marty Duda about his current NZ tour with Mel Parsons.
