Dry Cleaning – Secret Love (4AD) (13th Floor Album Review)
Dry Cleaning’s Secret Love builds on the band’s established approach to emotion, one shaped by distance, observation, and restraint.
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The Waterboys Present: Rips From the Cutting Room Floor (Sun) (13th Floor Album Review)
With Rips From the Cutting Room Floor, The Waterboys push their long-gestating Dennis Hopper project into its widest frame yet.
The Transits – Bleed Hope (13th Floor Album Review)
The Transits return with Bleed Hope, an album that opens at full tilt and rarely lets the listener come up for air across the punchy, pop-punk and rock of its fifteen tracks.
Troy Kingi – Night Lords (AAA) (13th Floor Album Review)
Troy Kingi’s Night Lords opens like a city after midnight, humming with danger, memory and movement.
The Others Way Festival – 13th Floor Review #1: November 29, 2025
The 13th Floor’s John Bradbury files his report after last night’s Others Way Festival. Photos by Chris Warne & Philip Chignell.
Hoop — Wrap Me Up in Winter (13th Floor Album Review)
Hoop’s Wrap Me Up in Winter is a quietly resonant mini-album that offers warmth, intimacy and a clear social conscience.
The Bros. Landreth – Dog Ear (Birthday Cake) (13th Floor Album Review)
On Dog Ear, The Bros. Landreth continue their growth from a technically gifted roots outfit into something warmer, wider and more generous.
The Avett Brothers & Mike Patton — AVTT/PTTN (Thirty Tigers) (13th Floor Album Review)
Some collaborations feel engineered. Some feel accidental. AVTT/PTTN by The Avett Brothers & Mike Patton feels like a doorway opening between two worlds that never expected to meet. It is the kind of project that sounds improbable until you hear it, and then it feels strangely inevitable.
Oasis – Accor Stadium, Sydney: November 8, 2025 (13th Floor Concert Review)
13th Floor’s John Bradbury made the trip to Sydney to see the reunited Oasis. Here is his report:
Sorry – Cosplay (Domino) (13th Floor Album Review)
Sorry’s third album Cosplay feels like the moment they stop trying to explain themselves.