2016 is looking to start out on the right foot with a new album, Adore Life, by Savages due for release later this month. The band has just released a video for the track Adore. Here is the press blurb that comes with it: With ‘Adore Life’, one of the most highly anticipated albums of […]
Not quite the follow-up to Tiny Ruins’ exquisite Brightly Painted One…Hurtling Through is a 7-track EP recorded in New York City with The Clean’s Hamish Kilgour. Hollie Fullbrook provides the voice and the songs, while Kilgour sprinkles everything with percussive fairy dust. These seven tracks were recorded over two sessions in Brooklyn, the first in […]
Congratulations to Richard Hume, who was the first person to correctly name The Guardian as the British publication that included Tami Neilson’s album Dynamite! as one of the top releases of 2014. Richard will receive a pair of tickets to see Tami, along with Delaney Davidson and The Warratahs on Saturday, January 2nd at Mangawhai […]
Ed Sheeran, perhaps to make up for the fact that his show comprised only one musician, packed the undercard at his tour-ending show at Auckland’s Mount Smart Stadium last night. Or perhaps, given that this would be the last performance in, as he repeatedly reminded us, a four-and-a-half-year tour, he was minded to depart with […]
Parabola West moved to New Zealand from her native New Jersey a little more than a decade ago. Now she’s living off the grid in Raglan, gardening and making music. She traveled up to Auckland recently to visit the 13th Floor and play a few songs. We’ll have the complete video session ready soon. In […]
Australian blues rocker Ash Grunwald just completed his latest tour of New Zealand. While he was here he stopped into The 13th Floor to chat with Marty Duda and lay down a few tracks including a couple of old favourites by Howlin’ Wolf and Son House. Watch here as Ash Grunwald rocks the house Save
Ciaran McMeekan is a Kiwi singer-songwriter who has recently moved from Dunedin to Auckland. His most recent EP is titled Screaming Man and he his performing at The Kings Arms this Thursday, December 3rd. Ciaran stopped by The 13th Floor to play a few songs and talk to Marty Duda. We’ll have the entire session […]
Australian blues-rocker Ash Grunwald kicks off his New Zealand tour tonight at Auckland’s Back Beat Bar. Ash stopped by The 13th Floor earlier today to chat with Marty Duda and to play a few tunes. We’ll have the entire video session ready for you soon. In the meantime, here is Ash Grunwald playing Howlin’ Wolf’s […]
Congratulations to Tim Hickey, Peter Harwood and M Goldfinch…our three winners of the new album by Son Little. They were the first three to correctly answer with Son Little’s given name: Aaron Livingston. Son Little’s debut album is now available on Anti- Records.
Fans and artists showed up in their finest for this year’s New Zealand Music Awards. 13th Floor photographer David Watson has assembled his favourite shots of the famous, and not so famous who caught his eye at Auckland’s Vector Arena. Click here to view the 70 or so photos that comprise our 13th Floor New […]