We all know that 2016 got Black Mirror levels of topsy-turvy, but perhaps one of the (rightly) less analysed stories of the year was the bizarre influence of The XX’s self titled debut released 11 years earlier had on mainstream pop charts in 2016. Their fingerprints are all over last year’s top 40- from Drake […]
After a 30 year hiatus, The Mockers are getting back together to play a series of New Zealand dates beginning this Thursday in Hamilton. The Mockers, fronted by Andrew Fagan, were one of the most successful Kiwi bands of the 1980s with hits such as Forever Tuesday Morning, Swear It’s True, One Black Friday, My Girl […]
Today, Nadia Reid announces her NZ tour in support of her new album, Preservation, being released March 3rd, 2017.
There’s nothing better than discovering a new band that seems to be making just the right music at just the right time. For me, that band is Susto. Hailing from Charleston, South Carolina, I first heard them at last year’s Austin City Limits Festival. Now, the release of their second album, & I’m Fine […]
Over the next couple of months 13th Floor will be running a series of articles and interviews about key artists and bands coming to WOMAD 2017 (New Plymouth, March 17-19). The Taranaki’s based world music festival is now in its 11th year, a 3-day celebration of musical and cultural diversity on every level. As always, […]
With summer finally seeming to arrive in Auckland, at least temporarily, Dutch trio My Baby kept the heat turned up at The Kings Arms on this Friday The 13th eve.
Auckland City Council presents its first screening of Movies In Parks tonight…it’s Ghostbusters 2016! Here’s the lowdown for the season… Get ready for three months of free entertainment and the opportunity to explore the Auckland region with your family and friends thanks to the 2017 series of Auckland Council’s Music and Movies in Parks.
Just when I thought I knew about every band to find the courage to lay down on the tracks during the 1970s yet another one resurfaces – complete with an overstocked pedigree of albums spanning decades of hard work and ferocious output. Half Japanese were born out of the Fair brother’s lo-fi bedroom recordings of […]
It’s a new year and its been several weeks since an overseas act has visited Auckland, so it’s no surprise that the Tuning Fork was sold out on this Wednesday night. It might also have to do with the fact that Lake Street Dive have cultivated quite a following in this country, performing here […]
This just in… English-born, Nashville-based singer-songwriter Karen Elson will release her second album Double Roses on 7 April 2017, via 1965 Records/[PIAS]. Elson, who released her debut The Ghost Who Walks in 2010, is newly signed by the label for the world (ex-US), where the record will be released on H.O.T Records.