Teeks – Spark Arena: November 12, 2022 (Concert Review)
Teeks performed at Auckland’s Spark Arena last night. 13th Floor’s reviewer Robin Kearns and photographer Tara Ranchhod were on the scene!
Teeks performed at Auckland’s Spark Arena last night. 13th Floor’s reviewer Robin Kearns and photographer Tara Ranchhod were on the scene!
Steve Gunn is in town and we found him at The Tuning Fork last night. Here’s The 13th Floor’s Robin Kearns with his report.
Frazey Ford completed a trifecta of postponed shows including Tame Impala playing in the arena next door, and Mel Parsons out at Avondale.
Nadia Reid walked onto a grander stage than many of us have been accustomed to seeing her on. And in rather different company.
Tiny Ruins with Finn Andrews at the Tuning Fork Birthdays are joyous occasions that warrant celebration. And celebration was in the air at the Tuning Fork last night. The cause? Both that we can be at live music again with ease after difficult and diffident times. And that this fine venue has now reached its […]
North Mississippi Allstars – Set Sail This album appealed to me from the get-go having lived in the Mississippi hill country when I was 17. It’s a rolling landscape of pine trees, occasional cotton fields, muddy slow-moving rivers and tangles of kudzu vines. And a fraught history. The North Mississippi Allstars invoke this country in […]
Butter Wouldn’t Melt are folk duo Andrea Reid (dulcimer, whistles, vocals) and Nick Burfield (guitar and vocals). Their name is intriguing. It’s an old English saying that lives on in the American South: “butter wouldn’t even melt in their mouth”, referring to someone who is not quite as they appear.
Tall Folk are self-described as a pair with “long limbs and swirling harmonies,” and are comprised of Jack Ringhand, whose roots are in the Midwest of the US and Lara Robertson who hails from Dunedin. What this collection Wiser (recorded by Tom Bell of Port Chalmers Recording Service) offers is a refreshing blend of harmony-based […]
French for Rabbits made an appearance at the Auckland Arts Festival back in March and band leader Brooke Singer made a comment that was at once humorous and insightful: “Excuse us being a bit awkward. We’re a band of introverts.” The Overflow, their third album, is a glorious celebration of that introvert disposition. Its tracks […]
Age Pryor releases a new collection that feels like music made Level 4 lockdown: reflective, hopeful and ultimately uplifting. His first solo album in 14 years, Invisible Lines offers superbly delicate vocal tracks and a rich range of influences: alt folk, jazz and pure pop. And even a little rap.