SUO, Elliot & Vincent & Ratso – Whammy Bar: January 10,2024
Auckland was rockin’ last night with a trifeca of acts including Ratso, Elliot & Vincent and, live from New York…SUO. The 13th Floor’s Simon Coffey was there. Here’s his report.
Auckland was rockin’ last night with a trifeca of acts including Ratso, Elliot & Vincent and, live from New York…SUO. The 13th Floor’s Simon Coffey was there. Here’s his report.
It’s hardcore Jim, but not as we know it! With expectations set far too high, 13th Floor minion Simon Coffey scammed his way into seeing one of the most anticipated shows of 2024, on a sweltering Rahine/Monday Tamaki Makaurau evening. California super-group OFF! playing their third show, of their first-ever tour of Aotearoa, part of […]
Having survived the silly season, Simon Coffey got back in the saddle and checked out groundbreaking death-metal icons Obituary on their Barely Alive tour in Aotearoa, four years on from the last visit.
The late, great Alex Chilton would have been 73 years old today but, sadly, he died March 17, 2010 at age 59. The 13th Floor’s Marty Duda started his attempt at “music journalism” back in 1995 with this review of Chilton at Squid club in Auckland. Read it and weep…
13th Floor founder Marty Duda picks his top 10 concerts from the past year. How many of these did you see?
Local Jangle-alt-popsters Cowboy Dan, fresh back from a two-year hiatus, celebrated the release of their two previous digital-only EPs, as a single vinyl LP last night at the Wine Cellar, with guests The Changing Same. 13th Floor’s resident opportunist Simon Coffey was there for some yuletide entertainment and tasty beverages.
Nessa Barrett has spent a grueling year touring the globe, seeking to solidify her place as another interstellar pop princess. As is often the case, New Zealand is the end of the line.
Matt Joe Gow and Kerryn Fields team up to give us two headliners for the price of one as a packed house made The Wine Cellar the place to be on this busy Saturday night in Auckland.
Quicksand are part of a moment in Punk Rock history when a(nother) sound was synthesised, as US hardcore, grunge and post-punk collided in the early 1990s, out of it came an anxious, energised and tuneful genre (Fugazi, Helmet, Therapy?) that momentarily threatened the music charts in the wake of Nirvana’s mainstream success. Hailing from New […]
Alvvays made their NZ debut last night at Auckland’s Powerstation with help from Hatchie. The 13th Floor’s Robin Kearns and Ryo Nishikawa were on the scene…