Garbage – Auckland Town Hall: December 3, 2025 (13th Floor Concert Review)
Garbage played their fifth, and most likely, last show in Auckland last night in front of a full house at the Town Hall.
Lewis Capaldi – Spark Arena: December 2, 2025 (13th Floor Concert Review)
Lewis Capaldi was out of the spotlight for a while from 2023 to mid this year, and he’s finally back touring (and in New Zealand)!
HDU – Double Whammy: November 28, 2025 (13th Floor Concert Review)
It’s was the night before Tamaki Makaurau’s premier locally produced music festival, The Other’s Way, and Double Whammy was graced with creative royalty, High Dependency Unit or HDU, playing a much anticipated sideshow, further ennobled by the addition of avante garde violinist, composer and producer MOTTE, 13th Floor reviewer Simon Coffey was there to capture the taonga!
Ben Ottewell & Ian Ball – Tuning Fork: November 26, 2025
When is a Gomez show not a Gomez show? Tonight’s sold-out concert at the Tuning Fork is ostensibly billed as a Ben Ottewell and Ian Ball concert, but the tour itself is called Gomez by Request, and when the tour was announced earlier this year fans were asked to submit (Gomez) song requests for the setlist via an electronic form. Talk […]
The Others Way Festival – 13th Floor Review #1: November 29, 2025
The 13th Floor’s John Bradbury files his report after last night’s Others Way Festival. Photos by Chris Warne & Philip Chignell.
The Others Way Festival – 13th Floor Review #2: November 29, 2025
The 13th Floor’s Marty Duda files this report after last night’s Others Way Festival. Photos by Chris Warne & Philip Chignall.
Toody Cole – Whammy Bar: November 25, 2025 (13th Floor Concert Review)
With three top notch bands on the bill, Whammy Bar was buzzing tonight long before Toody Cole took the stage.
Jubilation Choir – Hollywood Avondale: November 23, 2025 (13th Floor Concert Review)
Jubilation Choir marked their 25th anniversary with two sold out nights and a family-friendly matinee at the Avondale Theater Sundays matinee performance was a celebration of the natural joy of communal song.
More Suicidal Tendencies! (13th Floor Photo Gallery)
The Suicidal Tendencies show at The Powerstation was, by all accounts, one for the ages.
Jessie Murph – Auckland Town Hall: November 22, 2025 (13th Floor Concert Review)
Jessie Murph brought her Worldwide Hysteria Tour To Auckland’s Town Hall. The 13th Floor’s Ming Lyu was there.
Pixies – Auckland Town Hall: November 23, 2025 (13th Floor Concert Review)
Last night the Pixies delivered their Bossanova & Trompe Le Monde set to the Town Hall with an almost frightening intensity.
Tool – Spark Arena: November 22, 2025 (13th Floor Concert Review)
Tool returned to Auckland for their 6th visit and 9th show and their first since February 2020. We all know what happened after that…
Beastwars – Double Whammy: November 21, 2025 (13th Floor Concert Review)
Pōneke four-piece, Beastwars, described as Aotearoa’s premier doom-sludge bootstrappers, have just released a brand-new album, their sixth, The Ship//The Sea, fitted in a four date Australian tour, and are midway through a five date tour of our nga motu’s.
Metallica – Eden Park: November 19, 2025 (13th Floor Concert Review)
There was something oddly spiritual about walking down the blocked-off roads of Kingsland amongst the horde of Metallica fans into Eden Park yesterday afternoon – that strange twilight hour that only exists before a behemoth of a band hits the stage, where Auckland feels half asleep and half feral and the clouds hang low and […]
Suicidal Tendencies – The Powerstation: November 18, 2025 (13th Floor Concert Review)
Suicidal Tendencies led by American hardcore punk legend Mike Muir, have spent 40 years creating there own synthesis of punk, hardcore, thrash and metal, an evolving sound that has threatened singles and album charts occasionally, but never left the hearts, minds and ears of their fans, their generations of fans.
Pearly* & Awning – Goblin: November 15, 2025 (13th Floor Concert Review)
With their debut album Not So Sweet, causing a splash amongst those that know, Pearly* have product to pedal, and even though they are soon to be seen at The Other’s Way Festival at the end of the month.
Lenny Kravitz – Spark Arena: November 15, 2025 (13th Floor Concert Review)
Lenny Kravitz brought his Blue Electric Light Tour to New Zealand last night. It was the veteran rocker’s first show in Aotearoa in a career that reaches back almost 40 years.
Mundi – Ponsonby Social Club: November 15, 2025 (13th Floor Concert Review)
On a cool spring evening in Tamaki Makaurau, a city rocked by a malaise that’s heightened by the sudden change in weather, Mundi, the world fusion outfit hailing from Lyttleton, is hoping to bring some warmth to the Ponsonby Social Club.
Opeth – Trusts Arena: November 14, 2025 (13th Floor Concert Review)
Progressive metal band Opeth last visited New Zealand in 2017, the five-piece lineup—Mikael Åkerfeldt (guitar, vocals), Martín Méndez (bass), Fredrik Åkesson (guitar, backing vocals), Joakim Svalberg (keyboards, backing vocals), and Waltteri Väyrynen (drums)—returned after eight years with their critically acclaimed album, The Last Will and Testament. The show was originally scheduled for Auckland Town Hall, but overwhelming demand pushed it to Trusts […]
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – Tuning Fork: November 11, 2025 (13th Floor Concert Review)
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah played the Tuning Fork last night along with opener Beth Torrance…The 13th Floor’s Lawrence Mikkelsen files this report along with Brenna Jo Gotje’s photo.