Fur Patrol Announce PET Tour Postponed Until February 2022
Fur Patrol have postponed the PET 21st Anniversary tour until 2022, due to COVID and suspended travel between New Zealand and Australia.
Sulfate Put Their Dark Spin On Godzone: Interview
Sulfate have just released their second album, Godzone, today and bandleader Peter Ruddell is here with his take on this dark, foreboding Kiwi music.
Hollie Smith Teams Up With Raiza Biza on What About
Hollie Smith ‘s new album, Coming In From The Dark, is due out in October, but today she releases the single and video for What About and here she is to tell us all about it!
Tim Finn & Phil Manzanera are Caught By The Heart
Tim Finn and Phil Manzanera have teamed up 45 years after their first collaboration with a surprising new album titled Caught By The Heart.
Sally Decker Tells Us What Its Like In The Tender Dream
Sally Decker talks about making In The Tender Dream with The 13th Floor.
Waiata Māori Iconic Awards 2021 Go Online
Waiata Māori Iconic Awards recipients 2021 and WMMA will be going online! Organisers of the National Waiata Māori Music Awards have had to make the tough decision yet again to move the 2021 event online, with safety of the people being a the priority.
Kōanga Festival Adopts Hybrid Model In Response To Lockdown
Te Pou Theatre are delighted to confirm that their annual Kōanga Festival will go ahead in 2021, adopting a hybrid model to encompass both digital offerings and in-person events in response to Tāmaki Makaurau’s changing alert level status. A celebration of Māori storytelling, centered on their emerging playwright programme, Te Pou have extended the planned dates for this […]
NZIFF Announces 12 Films to Screen at Festival
NZIFF Announces an impressive 12 feature-length New Zealand films have been selected to screen at this year’s Whanau Mārama: New Zealand International Film Festival (NZIFF) so far.
You Am I Postpone NZ Tour Until March
Australian rock n roll legends You Am I today announce the band’s Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch concerts initially scheduled for October 2021, will now take place in early March 2022.
Tidal Rave – Albumette (Fishrider) Album Review
Tidal Rave, Wellington Indie Pop outfit, drop a very interesting sophomore album that pushes many of the buttons from around the time of the Punk Explosion. Like the stars you see at night, the actual physical elements have long gone but the light continues on. What Pete Townshend really meant when he sang Hope I […]
Lilly Hiatt – Been :13th Floor New Song Of The Day
Lilly Hiatt releases Been today and brings news of a new album, Lately, due in October.
Gerycz/Powers/Rolin Talk To 13th Floor About Lamplighter
Gerycz/Powers/Rolin have just released their second album together, Lamplighter. Here are Jen Powers and Matthew J. Rolin to tell us all about it.
Eric Bibb Shares A Letter To His Homeland In Dear America
Eric Bibb is an American blues musician who can claim Paul Robeson as his Godfather, and is now living in Sweden.
Reb Fountain – Foxbright Is Our New Song Of The Day!
Reb Fountain presents her 4th single from her upcoming album, Iris, today.
Chvrches – Screen Violence (Liberator Music)
Chvrches fourth album, Screen Violence, recaptures the distinctive indie-electronica of their first two albums after a disappointing third album, where they went went for a more mainstream pop sound.
Yumi Zouma Return With Give It Hell: New Song Of The Day
Yumi Zouma are back with their first new music of 2021. The new song is Give It Hell.
Marlin’s Dreaming – Trophies: 13th Floor New Song Of The Day
Marlins Dreaming has released their newest single, Trophies. The bold, chanting track is the second single release ahead of Hasten, the band’s third full-length studio album.
EP Review: Aro Release He Wai
Aro – husband-and-wife duo Emily Rice and Charles Looker, are developing their unique blend of Folk Pop with te reo Maori, and this EP He Wai has the sound to make them Aotearoa’s own Womack and Womack.
Martha Wainwright Re-Emerges With Love Will Be Reborn
Martha Wainwright has had a rough few years…a messy divorce, custody issues…you know, life. Here she is to tell us how she made a silk purse out of a sow’s ear (metaphorically speaking, of course) with her new album, Love Will Be Reborn.
ABBA Is Back! Two New Songs Released Today
ABBA, the 1970s pop phenomenon that sold millions of 45s is back after 40 years with two new songs, I Still Have Faith In You and Don’t Shut Me Down.