Heed The Call LIVE! Again! Performing LIVE – Mark Williams! Collision! Tina Cross! The Inbetweens! The Totals!
Disco will live again when the leading lights of the 70s New Zealand boogie scene make the music turn you on and on one more time.
Storm The Gates Festival – Second Line-up Announced
The biggest rock festival to hit New Zealand in recent years just got bigger! The legendary Sublime With Rome and (Hed) P.E have just been added to the Storm The Gates line-up, alongside the already action-packed bill that features rock heavyweights Limp Bizkit, Suicidal Tendencies, City Of Souls, Skinny Hobos and Written By Wolves.
Is this The Heavy Entertainment Show Tour or Robbie’s Greatest Hits Tour?
Robbie Williams – Spark Arena February 14, 2018 Robbie Williams did not fail to entertain the crowd with his top hits during a show on Valentine’s Day at the Spark Arena in Auckland. It was great to reminisce about days gone by and sing along to songs that form the soundtrack of many lives. But, […]
Chris Botti: “You look out there, and there are twenty people in tears” – The 13th Floor Interview
Jazz trumpeter Chris Botti makes his New Zealand performing debut at Auckland’s Bruce Mason Centre on February 21st.
Eden Mulholland talks Rushes, Rooms and Writing
Eden Mulholland released a string of sweet indie pop albums a few years backand then disappeared. Now he’s resurfaced with a newly composed soundtrack for the Opera Peer Gynt, written a score for a dance company and recorded a few songs, including his latest release Forwarding Backwarding. Tim Gruar had a chat to him on […]
The Another Frickin’ Festival Showcase – Opera House 11 February 2018
Tonight we got a taste of the upcoming Comedy Festival (26 April – 20 May) in a quick fire package of 11 comedians. The gig had already done a turn in Auckland and Queenstown and now it was the Capital’s turn.
Women Changing the World Heads Up Writers and Readers Festival Programme
Women Changing the World, a fast-paced, funny and fascinating series of talks from women doing their part to effect change in the world will open this year’s Writers & Readers. The gala event will be held on International Women’s Day, 8 March, with a line-up that includes Aotearoa’s Poet Laureate Selina Tusitala Marsh, Australian novelist Charlotte […]
Paramore Light Up Spark Arena as the After Laughter Tour Rolls Into Auckland
Paramore – Spark Arena February 13, 2018 As Paramore’s 7-piece band take the stage the mosh starts to scream. Hard Times, lead single for their fifth studio album, After Laughter, is first off the rack. Lead singer and all-round energy-bunny, Hayley Williams leads the crowd in the first of many sing-alongs. Williams tiptoes, pogoes-a-go-go, skips […]
Watch: Thompson Springs Perform Deadly Stare at The 13th Floor
Chicago’s Thompson Springs have just arrived in New Zealand for the first time for an eight-date tour.
Watch Highlights From Robbie Williams’ Auckland Press Conference
Yesterday was Robbie Williams’ 44th birthday. That solemn occasion was celebrated with a press conference held in Auckland in advance of the singer’s NZ tour.
QTY – QTY (Dirty Hit)
It’s taken it’s time to drop, but QTY’s eponymous debut turns on another bulb in NYC’s shining sonic lineage.
13th Floor New Song Of The Day: Iceage – Catch It
Danish quartet Iceage channel Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds in their new single, Catch It.
Red Fang NZ Tour May 2018
American sledgehammer stoner metal giants RED FANG are returning to New Zealand, so hold onto your beard, because things are going to get messy!
Belle and Sebastian How To Solve Human Problems, Part 1, 2 and 3 (Matador)
Glaswegian based veterans Belle and Sebastian release a compilation album of their separately issued 3 EP’s, How To Solve Our Human Problems Part 1, 2 and 3. Having released 9 studio albums over the last two decades, the well-established band have gone back to their roots, embracing the much revered EP format for their […]
Machine Gun Kelly To Tour New Zealand
After a stand-out slot at this year’s Bay Dreams Festival, US hip-hop artist Machine Gun Kelly is bringing his own headline tour to New Zealand.
Boney M Announce Auckland Show!
Disco Superstars BONEY M (Feat. Maizie Williams) are back performing all of their Greatest Hits for an exclusive show in Auckland at Bruce Mason Centre. Their amazing run of chart-topping singles and relentless touring schedule established BONEY M as a genuine pop super group in the 70s and 80s. Their high energy, sing along shows […]
Shayne P. Carter – Kings Arms February 9, 2018
We just received this write-up from journalist Karen McCarthy who caught Shayne Carter (Dimmer/Straitjacket Fits) at The Kings Arms this past weekend… The clock is ticking on the venerable live music institution that is Auckland’s Kings Arms, but the Newton pub was packed to the gunnels Friday night for a one-off show by rock god […]
13th Floor New Song Of The Day: Okkervil River – Don’t Move Back To LA
Okkervil River have announced a new album and released a new track.
Bill Murray, Jan Vogler & Friends Bring ‘New Worlds’ To New Zealand This November!
The legendary actor and comedian Bill Murray, and world renowned Cellist Jan Vogler are bringing their ‘New Worlds‘ tour to New Zealand this November. The two met during their travels and became friends in New York. Curious about each others artistic world and interests, the actor and the cellist soon had the idea to work together on a […]
Mastodon and Gojira to play Auckland this March
American metallers Mastodon are returning to New Zealand, with a one-off show at Trusts Arena in Auckland on Saturday, March 31.