Billy Strings – Spark Arena: July 22, 2025 (13th Floor Concert Review)
Billy Strings was a pickin’, and we were a grinnin’ as he and his four compadres treated a nearly-full Spark Arena to nearly two and a half hours of primo Bluegrass music.
This Silent Divide – City Lights: 13th Floor New Song Of The Day
Wellington rock band This Silent Divide today released their new single and music video for City Lights. The band mix driving drums, wall-of-sound guitars and melodic overtones to create catchy, high-energy songs. City Lights was recorded and mixed by producer Toby Lloyd at Wellington’s Tiny Triumph Recordings.
Folk Bitch Trio – Now Would Be A Good Time (Jagjaguwar)
The name Folk Bitch Trio is punky, provocative, even a little tongue-in-cheek, but the music on their debut album Now Would Be A Good Time is quietly radical in a different way.
Billie Marten – Dog Eared (Fiction) (13th Floor Album Review)
British singer Billie Marten has just released her new album Dog Eared, a jazz-folk record reminiscent of softness and a departure from her previous styles. Across the album’s tracklist, Marten traverses major themes while effortlessly mixing intense production with contemplative lyricism.
Fly My Pretties – Nice N’ Easy: 13th Floor New Song Of The Day
New Zealand’s eclectic musical collective Fly My Pretties present Nice N’ Easy, the first taste of the upcoming deluxe version of their new album, ELEMENTAL.
Ozzy Osbourne: Black Sabbath Frontman & Prince of Darkness Has Died Age 76 – R.I.P.
We here at The 13th Floor are reeling from the news that Ozzy Osbourne has died, age 76, just weeks after his historic reunion with his Black Sabbath bandmates.
One To One: John & Yoko Dir: Kevin MacDonald & Sam Rice-Edward (13th Floor NZIFF Review)
Think you know everything about Beatle John? Even if you do, One To One: John & Yoko is a film that will stand as a stark reminder of just how passionate and important his and Yoko’s activism was in the early 1970s.
Infinity Sessions – Winter 2025: Make Us Feel Good About Life – MUFGAL
Neil Finn and Roundhead Studios are thrilled to announce a midwinter pick me up… a series of INFINITY SESSIONS to “Make Us Feel Good About Life” ( MUFGAL) and bring great music & mirth to the people of New Zealand and beyond as a mid winter pick me up.
Soft Bait – Life Advice (Flying Nun) (13th Floor Album Review)
Formed in 2020 in Tāmaki Makaurau, Soft Bait are a band that took shape before they ever took the stage. Their debut, Plot Points, written and recorded before playing a single gig, was literary, brooding post-punk built on relentless rhythm and tight, coiled tension.
Gina Malcolm – Travellin’ Heart: 13th Floor New Song Of The Day
Leanne Malcolm has changed her tune in recent years. Known across New Zealand as a radio and television journalist and as the presenter of TV3’s Nightline in the 90s, she has had a radical shift in career since 2021. Now Gina Malcom is here with the pure alt-country and Americana sound of ‘Travellin’ Heart’.
Osheen Performs Highlife: 13th Floor Singles Session
Direct from Whangārei its Osheen, one of Northland’s most promising new singer/songwriters….here in Auckland to perform his latest single, Highlife, at The 13th Floor.
The Warratahs – Burning Daylight (Southbound) (13th Floor Album Review)
Barry Saunders and The Warratahs have just released their new album, Burning Daylight, one that has The 13th Floor’s Robin Kearns thinking…here are his thoughts.
Awning + For The Girl Who Has Everything – Whammy Bar: July 18, 2025
Since the release of Awning’s debut, My Friend Dog EP, recordings made between 2021 and 2023, singer/songwriter Christian Dimick has made significant strides, and I’m not just talking distance between Te Whanganui-a-Tara and Tamaki Makaurau.
Princess Chelsea’s Midwinter Ball – The Civic/Wintergarden: July 18, 2026
Cold weather be damned! Princess Chelsea invited all of Auckland to celebrate the season with another Midwinter Ball and the response was so great it was expanded to two nights.
Sadsmiles – Eyes Over There (Songbroker) (13th Floor Album Review)
On their quietly assured debut album Eyes Over There, Sadsmiles, the collaborative project of Mahoney Harris and Wayne Bell, offer a collection of songs that reward stillness and attentiveness. With Harris on lead vocals and Bell playing every instrument, the album is a notebook of understatement: poetic, emotionally intelligent, and beautifully unhurried.
Leisure – Dominoes: 13th Floor New Song Of The Day
Today, Auckland’s soul-electronic collective LEISURE share their new single, Dominoes, a catchy beat-driven track that ignites like the spark of falling in love.
William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet – ASB Waterfront Theatre: July 17, 2025
William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet has been done so many times in so many ways it has almost become a cliché. Almost. Almost. We’ve seen Baz Lurhmann do it as a brawl on Venice Beach, and Leonard Bernstein take it to a Westside Story. I’ve seen many different interpretations myself—but I’ve never seen it done as a […]
Romeo & Juliet: Beatriz Romilly Talks To The 13th Floor (Theatre Interview)
The Auckland Theatre Company’s production of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet opens this week at ASB Waterfront Theatre.
The Bats – Lucky Day: 13th Floor New Song Of The Day
Today The Bats have shared their brand new video single Lucky Day. New Zealand indie rock royals, The Bats, have recently had their heads down recording new music and have also announced their 11th full-length album, Corner Coming Up, out on October 17th via Flying Nun Records.
The Ballad Of Briar Grant – Basement Theatre: July 15, 2025 (13th Floor Theatre Review)
The Ballad of Briar Grant is a slightly surreal mystery with a story about personal change. It’s an ambitious piece of writing with some vignettes of brilliance, delivered confidently by director Lia Kelly and a theatre team who know what they’re about. And it does have a real ballad.