Merv Pinny – Hard Road (13th Floor Album Review)
On his debut full-length album Hard Road, Merv Pinny is laying down a road map of sorts.
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Mundi – Ponsonby Social Club: November 15, 2025 (13th Floor Concert Review)
On a cool spring evening in Tamaki Makaurau, a city rocked by a malaise that’s heightened by the sudden change in weather, Mundi, the world fusion outfit hailing from Lyttleton, is hoping to bring some warmth to the Ponsonby Social Club.
Sam Cullen – Sam Cullen (13th Floor Album Review)
If an album of music is a journey, then Sam Cullen’s self-titled debut album is a journey back in time.
Blair Morgan – Sunday River (Blair Morgan Music) (13th Floor Album Review)
Sunday River is Blair Morgan’s first studio album released under his own name and, you might ask, what took him so long?
Erase Everything – Glass Souls (Sunreturn) (13th Floor EP Review)
Glass Souls is the second EP release from local band Erase Everything, after their debut eponymous EP last year.
Chrissie Hynde and Pals – Duets Special (Parlophone) (13th Floor Album Review)
Chrissie Hynde, frontwoman of 1980s smash-hit producing, globally-famous, new wave band The Pretenders, has released Duets Special, the 4th studio album under her own name, with a host of famous friends, known on this record as The Pals.
Todd Snider – High, Lonesome And Then Some (Aimless Records/Thirty Tigers) (13th Floor Album Review)
In his latest album High, Lonesome And Then Some, Todd Snider doesn’t just open the window on the crazy world of a women-chasing, hard drinking, itinerant bluesman, he’s opened-up the front passenger door and insisted he’s taking you for a ride through the back alleys of Nashville, across the high plains and, if we’ve got the gas […]
Kim Paterson with The Mike Nock Trio – Lake Rd (Thick Records) (13th Floor Album Review)
The ‘Auckland Father of Jazz’, Kim Paterson, has teamed up with lifelong friend and fellow legend Mike Nock, both inductees to the Music Hall of Fame, to produce Lake Rd. Nock brings his current trio players Cameron Undy on bass and drummer Nick McBride playing a collection of standards, a self-penned track and one from an unusual […]
ROCKET – R Is For Rocket (Transgressive Records) (13th Floor Album Review)
Rocket’s debut album R Is For Rocket illustrates how raw talent, hard work, clear ideas and not being scared to rework old ideas can come together to make a truly remarkable recording.
Underwire – State Between (13th Floor Album Review)
It’s been incubating for nearly 15 years, now at last Underwire deliver their debut album State Between.
