Stellar* – Q Theatre: March 28, 2025 (13th Floor Concert Review)
Stellar* celebrated the 25th anniversary of their award-winning debut album, Mix, in front of a sold-out audience at Auckland’s Q Theatre.
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Japanese Breakfast – For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women) (Dead Oceans)
Few artists have navigated the intersection of grief, nostalgia, and reinvention as deftly as Michelle Zauner. As the creative force behind Japanese Breakfast, she has built a discography defined by emotional depth, sonic ambition, and cinematic quality.
Mel Parsons – Post High Slide: 13th Floor New Song Of The Day
After a watershed year in 2024 with SABOTAGE, multi award-winning and 2025 Taite Prize finalist Mel Parsons brings a taste of things to come with her upbeat, introspective new single and video Post High Slide.
TEDDY SWIMS ANNOUNCES HIS BIGGEST SHOWS EVER IN AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND!
After a meteoric rise to global stardom and due to overwhelming demand, GRAMMY-nominated multi-Platinum artist Teddy Swims announces his return to Australia and New Zealand this October 2025.
JPEGMAFIA – Powerstation: February 26, 2025 (13th Floor Concert Review)
Last in Aotearoa 2022, though a constant gardener (visitor) to Australia, since 2015, JPEGMAFIA has been releasing his vision, a synthesis of post-20th century hip hop & rap with ‘other’ influences from Kanye West to Radiohead and even 70’s UK Industrial provocateurs Throbbing Gristle. It’s his appropriation of ‘other’ that saw him title his first release, […]
Shamin’s Weekly Round Up: Tiffin Box, Camp Be Better & Show Me Shorts
The 13th Floor’s Shamin Yazdani has been busy flitting around from event to event. Here is her report on Tiffin Box, Camp Be Better and Show Me Shorts.
Lone Justice – Skull and Cross Bones: 13th Floor New Cover Of The Day
Lone Justice release new track Skull and Cross Bones, taken from upcoming new album Viva Lone Justice – the first album to be released by Lone Justice in nearly 40 years. Featuring original band members Maria McKee, Ryan Hedgecock, Marvin Etzioni and the late Don Heffington. Viva Lone Justice is released via AFAR on October 25th.
WORD CHCH Literature Festival 2024: 13th Floor Report
The 13th Floor’s Shamin Yazdani headed south to Christchurch to take in the WORD CHCH Literature Festival. Here is her report:
Lone Justice – Jenny Jenkins: 13th Floor New Cover Of The Day
Lone Justice treat us with another cool cover from their upcoming album, Viva Lone Justice, due out October 25th. This time around is a new take on an old traditional tune called Jenny Jenkins.
Robyn Hitchcock – Itchycoo Park: 13th Floor New Cover Of The Day
Robyn Hitchcock has announced 1967: Vacations In The Past, an acoustic musical companion to his critically acclaimed new memoir, 1967: How I Got There and Why I Never Left, arriving via Tiny Ghost Records on Friday, September 13. 1967: How I Got There and Why I Never Left is on sale now from Akashic Books.