New Song Of The Day: Pocket Money – Feijoa
Here’s a tasty little tune from Pocket Money titled Feijoa.
Concert Review: Cross Street Music Festival, 10 April 2021
Those April showers threatened to take down this years’ Cross Street Music Festival, but the rain abated at the last minute and live music was heard in the streets of Auckland.
Watch: 13th Floor MusicTalk with Esther Rose
Made in New Orleans, we talk to Esther Rose about her new album, How Many Times. It’s a country album with a rock & roll heart.
Album Review: The Antlers – Green To Gold (Anti-)
If you’re waiting for The Antlers’ Green To Gold, to rock out, well don’t.
New Song Of The Day: The Wallflowers – Roots and Wings
After a decade off here’s The Wallflowers performing a brand new song on Jimmy Kimmel Live.
Concert Review: Andrew Fagan & The People – The Wine Cellar April 9, 2021
This New Zealand Pop King appears on stage with a theatrical presence. A glitter costume with a silver crown and cloth face mask. Then Andrew Fagan and the People proceed to let go and rage from the starters gun with Now You Know. Great Power Pop, inventive and hook-laden.
Concert Review: Thomston @ The Tuning Fork, 8 April 2021
Into the yearning world of hero haired Thomston I go! The Tuning Fork doors opened at 8, but it wasn’t until everyone was sipping seconds at 9.20 that the lights switched off. Bam! the LA bound kiwi appeared between fluorescent red lights.
Watch: 13th Floor MusicTalk with Peaches
Today it’s Breakfast With Peaches who is in Berlin ready to talk about her new single/video Pussy Mask.
Concert Review: Elemeno P – The Tuning Fork April 9, 2021
It’s 7:30pm on the dot and security have opened the gates and are welcoming us in. The venue is slowly beginning to fill with black, plaid, side bangs and band shirts. Eyeliner is heavy and beers are flowing. Elemeno P’s iconic 2003 album Love & Disrespect is sold out on vinyl within 15 minutes of the […]
New Song Of The Day: Gary Louris – Almost Home
Jayhawks founding member Gary Louris steps out on his own with Almost Home.
Concert Review: Good Habits, Devonport Folk Club, Auckland 5 April 2021
Folk rooted in Celtic and European tradition, matched to observational story-telling with a definite Manchester sensibility is duo Bonnie Schwarz and Pete Shaw – who perform under the banner Good Habits.
Concert Review: In The Shallows at San Fran, Wellington, 8 April 2021
Wellington duo In The Shallows (Danni Parsons and Lance Shepherd) wound up their nationwide album release tour with an intimate and varied evening at Wellington’s San Fran.
Watch: 13th Floor MusicTalk with LearningToDive
LearningToDive is one of the musical outlets for Wellington’s Bravo Bonez. LTD’s debut album, Norwegian Pop has just been released so we thought we’d have a chat.
Album Review: Haunted Shed – Faltering Light (Strolling Bones)
Haunted Shed is debuting their first album Faltering Light, but singer/songwriter Etienne De Rocher is no stranger to the music scene. After a brief hiatus and shift from San Francisco’s West Coast he moved to Athens, Georgia with wife Maria and their two children where he discovered new musical influences culminating in a new band and […]
New Song Of The Day: Lontalius – Carousel
Today we bring you new music from Lontalius…a new song and a new video titled Carousel.
London Grammar to Return to NZ for Spark Arena Show in March 2022
London Grammar will return to New Zealand in March 2022 to perform at Auckland’s Spark Arena.
Mansfield – In Her Own Words to be performed live for the first time…
New dates have been confirmed for some of Aotearoa’s finest to tour album based on the poetry of Katherine Mansfield.
Concert Review: Reb Fountain & The Black Quartet: The Boy Next Door Auckland Town Hall April 7, 2021
Combine the voice and presence of Reb Fountain with the songs of Nick Cave and add The Black Quartet and you’ve got yourself one memorable night of live music.
Album Review: Chris Cornell – No One Sings Like You Anymore Volume One (UMe)
Chris Cornell, who many believe to be the ‘Founding Father of Grunge’, self-recorded a fifth and final solo album in 2016. And with a suggestive term such as Vol.1 hanging off the album’s title, could there be another down the road?
Watch: 13th Floor MusicTalk with Caroline Blind
Direct from New Jersey, here is Caroline Blind to tell us all about her new video, Need To Say, taken from her album, The Spell Between.