New Song Of The Day: Proteins Of Magic – Hopeful Symphony
Let’s get Friday started with this new song from Proteins Of Magic. The song is a Hopeful Symphony.
Concert Review: Oscar LaDell at The Vic, Devonport 9 July 2021
Oscar LaDell is a Young American who emigrated to Dunedin in his teens. He served up a set of Roots Music inspired by Black musician heroes from the Delta to the classic Soul era.
New Song Of The Day: The Felice Brothers – Silverfish
Here’s a little something new from The Felice Brothers. The song is Silverfish and there’s a new album on the way!
Songwriters Soirèe with Edward Castelow and O & The Mo Announce Tour
Two of our nation’s most charming acts team up for a cute run of shows to warm the cockles of your hearts in the form of the Songwriters Soirèe. Bask in the candle-lit vibrancy and indie folk stylings of renowned Tāmaki Makaurau sweetheart Edward Castelow and Nelson/Põneke dreamboats O & The Mo when they merge […]
2021 APRA Silver Scroll Award Top 20 Shortlist Announced
The 2021 APRA Silver Scroll Award Top 20 Shortlist was chosen from over 250 entries by a judging panel of 10 fellow songwriters, who have each made wonderful contributions to the NZ music community.
Watch: 13th Floor MusicTalk with Dave McMurray
Blue Note Sax player Dave McMurray releases Grateful Deadication this Friday. Here he is to tell us all about it.
13th Floor New Song Of The Day: Durand Jones & The Indications – The Way That I Do
Here are Durand Jones & The Indications with their new song, The Way That I Do.
Watch: 13th Floor MusicTalk with Freya
Meet 17 year old Freya. She’s from Auckland’s North Shore and she releases her debut EP, Wildest Creatures I’ve Dreamed this Friday.
Watch: 13th Floor MusicTalk with Kate Vargas
Kate Vargas beams in from Hawaii to tell us all about Rumpumpo, her new album, due out this Friday.
13th Floor New Song Of The Day: Kate Vargas – Glorieta To The Holy Place
With her new album due out Friday, here is Kate Vargas with Glorieta To The Holy Place.
Watch: 13th Floor MusicTalk with Stephen Pope of Wavves
Here’s Stephen Pope of Wavves to tell us all about his band’s new album, Hideaway, due out this Friday.
Movie Review: The Godmother Directed by Jean-Paul Salomé
The Godmother, also known as Mama Weed and La Daronne, is a light crime-dramedy from France, starring Isabelle Huppert as a police interpreter whose compassion drives her head-first into an ever-escalating drug empire.
Concert Review: Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction Soundtracks Live at the Civic 10 July 2021
The music of Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction is brought to the live stage in spectacular fashion by a magnificent ensemble band featuring four of New Zealand’s outstanding singers. Laughton Kora, Tami Neilson, Milan Borich (Pluto) and Booga Beazley (Head Like a Hole).
13th Floor New Song Of The Day: Lips – Empty Hours
Here is Lips with a brand new song to set you on your way on this fine Monday morning. It is called Empty Hours.
Watch: 13th Floor Video Session with Little Sunday
Auckland rockers Little Sunday visited our 13th Floor Studio, played a few tunes and had a chat.
Bobby Gillespie and Jehnny Beth – Utopian Ashes (Third Man)
Forty one years ago Joy Division charted the emotions of the failing end of a relationship in their classic song Love Will Tear Us Apart and that same sad territory is mapped in Utopian Ashes by Bobby Gillespie and Jehnny Beth. On their first album together Gillespie and Beth use country and chamber pop to […]
New Song Of The Day: Black Velvet Butterfly – Baby Bat (16)
Auckland’s Black Velvet Butterfly brings you Baby Bat (16) today on The 13th Floor.
Concert Review: Flamingo Pier Galatos, Auckland 8 July 2021
Dance to the music and I want to take you higher. Flamingo Pier tap into seminal Sly and the Family Stone progressing to Seventies socially aware Soul to Disco. And generate some steam heat with the Sex Beat.
Interview: LoneLady on Former Things and Scrub Transmissions
Julie Campbell is LoneLady, a very solo artist based in Manchester who has just released her new album, Former Things.
Concert Review: Greg Johnson – Powerstation July 9, 2021
Greg Johnson and his “Time Is A Traveller” Tour warmed up a chilly night in Auckland.