Ocean Colour Scene are due to perform tonight at Auckland’s Powerstation. The 13th Floor’s Tim Gruar caught the band in Wellington last night and turns in this report to give Aucklanders an idea of what they are in for. The 13th Floor will post a review and photo gallery of tonight’s show tomorrow morning.
Auckland’s very own Albi & The Wolves moved The Tuning Fork to dance last night with a rousing set of down-to-earth folk and Americana. On a rainy Saturday night they warmed the room with a set steeped in musical communal tradition, without ever feeling stale despite their reliance on familiar folk-rock idioms.
13th Floor photographer Grace Watson headed down to the New Zealand Music Awards on Thursday evening and returned with these pix:
Well they didn’t suck. Nor were they exactly super. Failing, for better or worse, to live up to either entertaining possibility installed in their name, the American self-proclaimed “greatest rock’n’roll band in the world” took a safe middle route with a borderline parodical set of solid fast-paced classic southern rock. And yes, the above quote […]
Last night’s sold out show at The Powerstation showcased a woman aware of pop’s past, who can adeptly refashion it for the present so that she might secure her place in its future.
A year and a month after her first foray to the Tuning Fork, Canadian songstress Lindi Ortega returned to the Auckland venue.
Wu-Tang man GZA performed at The Studio on Auckland’s K Road last night.
After a string of performances through Europe and Japan in promotion of his third album Harmonies, Wellington producer and multi-instrumentalist Lord Echo finally brought his album release tour for a night of funk, groove and disco to the people of Auckland.
Sometimes, just for a night, the middle of the road doesn’t seem like such a bad place. Sometimes derivative can be comforting and even forgettable can be entertaining in the moment. Last night at the Tuning Fork was such a night, as established Kiwi songwriters Mel Parsons and Greg Johnson shared the bill for the […]
After eight months overseas, Marlon Williams returns to New Zealand for a series of shows to generate excitement for the release of his second long player, Make Way For Love due out February 16th.