Watch: Superturtle at The 13th Floor
Watch as Auckland band Superturtle perform at the Backbeat Bar on K Road.The 13th Floor’s Marty Duda talks to members of the band and they play three songs including their latest single, The Industry.
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Good Vibrations – My Life As A Beach Boy – Mike Love (Book Review)
Mike Love tells his own jaundiced version of his legendary, raucous, and ultimately triumphant five-decade career as the front man of The Beach Boys, the most popular American band in history. His own story has never been fully told, of how a sheet-metal apprentice became the quintessential front man for America’s most successful rock band, […]
Check Out This Previously-Unreleased Recording From Neil Young
Neil Young has just made available his solo acoustic recording of Hitchhiker, recorded in 1976. It was to be the title track for an album that Neil recorded in one “drug-fueled night”, and then left abandoned. Now Reprise Records will release the long lost album on September 8th. Neil has promised to made everything he […]
Beach Rats Dir: Eliza Hittman
It’s a case of desire and denial in this atmospheric coming-of-age tale of a teen struggling with his sexuality in Brooklyn.
6 Days Dir: Toa Fraser
A Kiwi take on one of Britain’s most iconic events of the 20th century, this action-thriller starring Jamie Bell is a gripping account of the real-life siege.
Aaron Carpenter & The Revelators – Tuning Fork August 4, 2017
Crossing over from Waiheke Island, Aaron Carpenter and his Revelators celebrated the release of their first long player, Pretty Lies, with a show at Auckland’s Tuning Fork.
Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked The World Dir: Catherine Bainbridge & Alfonso Maiorana (NZIFF)
Here’s a well-intentioned, ambitious music documentary determined to shine a light on the influence of Native Americans in the history of rock & roll. Its scatter-shot approach hits as many targets as it misses.
Good Time Dir: Ben & Josh Safdie
Electric New York filmmakers the Safdie brothers rob us blind with this heist movie gone wrong, thanks to an illicitly good performance from Robert Pattinson.
Mountain Dir: Jennifer Peedom (NZIFF)
Mountain junkies, classical music lovers and Willem Dafoe fans are all in for a treat, with this enthralling look at what makes mountains move us.
Justin Hayward: The 13th Floor Interview
Justin Hayward has been fronting The Moody Blues since 1967 when they abandoned their early r&b sound and created something completely new with Days Of Future Passed. Since then, the band has amassed an incredible legacy of work including iconic albums such as A Question Of Balance, Seventh Sojourn and In Search Of The Lost […]