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Keira Wallace + Calla – Wine Cellar: July 6, 2024 (13th Floor Concert Review)
Keira Wallace celebrates the release of their new single, Leap/Landing, with their first North Island show fueled with a little help from their friends.
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Teddy Swims – Spark Arena: July 6, 2024 (13th Floor Concert Review)
TEDDY SWIMS delivered an utterly knockout Saturday night experience to a capacity Tamaki Makaurau crowd, who won’t forget it in a hurry.
Buffalo Tom: Nobody Cares About Our New Record: 13th Floor MusicTalk Interview
Buffalo Tom have just released their 10th studio album, titled Jump Rope. Here is bass player Chris Colburn to tell us why, even tough “nobody cares about our new record” they do!
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The Bikeriders Dir: Jeff Nichols: A Star-Studded Misfire (13th Floor Film Review)
The Bikeriders has all the makings of a great film, but it’s a sanitized and generic crime drama that doesn’t say much. But it is sumptuous to look at, with picturesque shots of rumbling motorcycles, hazy dive bars, chiaroscuro lit chatter, and Butler doing his best blue steel.
Keira Wallace -Leap/Landing: 13th Floor New Song Of The Day
Once in a blue moon, an artist comes along whose songwriting craft feels as if it arrives fully formed. With heartfelt and intricate songs that display an emotional intelligence that defy expectations of one so young, Ōtepoti singer and songwriter Keira Wallace is such an artist.
Redd Kross Are Back With Double The Fun: 13th Floor MusicTalk Interview
Redd Kross has been rocking audiences for over 40 years now. Brothers Jeff and Steve McDonald are keeping the flame alight with their new, self-titled double album…and there’s a film and a memoir on the way as well.
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Teaches of Peaches – Dir: Philipp Fussenegger & Judy Landkammer
Doc Edge 2024 opened in Auckland last night. Music fans may want to check out Teaches Of Peaches.
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Silk Cut – Silk Cut (Self) 13th Floor Album Review
Silk Cut release their second long player today. It’s an album that uses their bandmembers’ rich musical past as a way to move forward.
Rory Block Takes Us To Positively 4th Street: 13th Floor MusicTalk Interview
Rory Block is an American blues guitarist and singer who has been making records since the late 1970s. Her latest is a tribute to another up-and-coming songwriter who used to hang out in her dad’s shop in NYC…a guy who called himself Bob Dylan.
Aaron Frazer Goes Into The Blue: 13th Floor MusicTalk Interview
Aaron Frazer has just released his second solo album, titled Into The Blue and here he is to tell us how he mixes classic Philly soul with hip hop beats to come up with his own sound.
FULL PROGRAMME ANNOUNCED FOR WHĀNAU MĀRAMA NEW ZEALAND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2024
Whānau Mārama New Zealand International Film Festival (NZIFF) has tonight unveiled the 105 films, including 19 shorts, in the 2024 line-up. The event opens in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington on 31 July, before touring nine other centres across the country until 4 September.
Four Tet – Three (Text Records) 13th Floor Album Review)
Since first encountering his installment of the excellent DJ Kicks series released in 2006, I’ve taken a casual interest in the output of Keiran “Four Tet” Hebden.
13th Floor Video Premiere! Damien Binder – Crazy
Perth-based songwriter Damien Binder follows up the success of last year’s album Bright Side with ‘Crazy’, the first single from his forthcoming new EP, distributed by Big Pop Digital.
Ocean Beach – Boy’s Club: 13th Floor New Song Of The Day
Ocean Beach release the first of five new singles that will result in the new album, The Long Road Home.
Martin Mull: The Musician, Actor and Satirist Has Died Age 80: R.I.P.
Martin Mull has died at age 80 at his home in California. You may know him as an actor on Roseanne, Arrested Development and Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman or from his comedy/novelty/satire records of the 1970s.
R.I.P. Kinky Friedman: Satirist, Musician and Novelist Has Died Age 79
Kinky Friedman has died at his longtime family home at Echo Hill Ranch in Medina, Texas at age 79 complications associated with Parkinson’s disease.
Devilskin with Tadpole – The Powerstation: June 29, 2024
Devilskin rocked Auckland’s Powerstation last night along with a (somewhat) reunited Tadpole. We sent Andra Jenkin off to check it out. Here is her report along with photos by Michael Jeong.
Reed. – Murimuri Aroha: 13th Floor New Song Of The Day
REED. is the moniker of Sasha Te Whare (He/Him, Ngāti Maniapoto), a producer and musician based in Tāmaki Makaurau and this weekend he delivers his new single MURIMURI AROHA, their first song completely in Te Reo Māori.
Chè-Fu & The Kratez With The Auckland Philharmonia – Auckland Town Hall: June 27, 2024
The Auckland Philharmonia is getting around these days. Last week they performed with Brooke Fraser now here they are jamming with Chè-Fu.
Sean Cunningham and Whatever That Is: 13th Floor MusicTalk Interview
Today Sean Cunningham releases his debut solo album, Whatever That Is. Based in Nashville, Kiwi music fans may remember Sean as the charismatic frontman for the record-setting band Atlas. But as they say, that was then and this is now.