MC50 – 10 MORE (earMUSIC) (13th Floor Album Review)
MC5, essentially just Wayne Kramer, follow on from last year’s album – Heavy Lifting, with a live album; MC50 – 10 More.
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HDU – Double Whammy: November 28, 2025 (13th Floor Concert Review)
It’s was the night before Tamaki Makaurau’s premier locally produced music festival, The Other’s Way, and Double Whammy was graced with creative royalty, High Dependency Unit or HDU, playing a much anticipated sideshow, further ennobled by the addition of avante garde violinist, composer and producer MOTTE, 13th Floor reviewer Simon Coffey was there to capture the taonga!
The Saints – Long March Through The Jazz Age (Fire) (13th Floor Album Review)
This posthumous release by Chris Bailey’s The Saints, was seven years in the making, started in 2018, but not completed until three years after his death.
Beastwars – Double Whammy: November 21, 2025 (13th Floor Concert Review)
Pōneke four-piece, Beastwars, described as Aotearoa’s premier doom-sludge bootstrappers, have just released a brand-new album, their sixth, The Ship//The Sea, fitted in a four date Australian tour, and are midway through a five date tour of our nga motu’s.
Suicidal Tendencies – The Powerstation: November 18, 2025 (13th Floor Concert Review)
Suicidal Tendencies led by American hardcore punk legend Mike Muir, have spent 40 years creating there own synthesis of punk, hardcore, thrash and metal, an evolving sound that has threatened singles and album charts occasionally, but never left the hearts, minds and ears of their fans, their generations of fans.
Pearly* & Awning – Goblin: November 15, 2025 (13th Floor Concert Review)
With their debut album Not So Sweet, causing a splash amongst those that know, Pearly* have product to pedal, and even though they are soon to be seen at The Other’s Way Festival at the end of the month.
Beastwars – The Ship// The Sea (Destroy Records) (13th Floor Album Review)
The Ship// The Sea is Beastwars sixth album, as with previous offering, the artwork is once again by Nick Keeler, (a mighty image it is too) and the music produced by James Goldsmith and Nathan Hickey, who have handled members’ creative egos since 2016.
Cabinet – Debut (13th Floor EP Review)
Cabinet are one of the three post covid metal bands that piqued my interest, as the live music scene revitalised.
Bilders – Neverlasting (Carbon/Grapefruit) (13th Floor Album Review)
As Bilders, Builders, and many other constructs, Bill Direen started (and continues) his journey aiming for the stars, a genesis of releases on Flying Nun, was followed by some self-released (South Indies), many on others local (onset-offset) and much on overseas labels (Grapefruit and Siltbreeze).
Jim White – Inner Day (Drag City) (13th Floor Album Review)
Jim White, a (drumming) force within the experimental music community, has, though his expansive musical endeavors have reached wide and afar, touching such groups as Cat Power, PJ Harvey, Nick Cave, Beth Orton and Ed Kuepper.
