Watch Tiny Ruins at The 13th Floor
Tiny Ruins’ Hollie Fullbrook stopped in to The 13th Floor to talk about her upcoming tour with Bic Runga and to play a few songs. The songs she choice are particularly exciting…a never-recorded (by her) version of John Cale’s Andalucia, a beautiful WB Yeats poem set to music and a rarely-performed original composition from Brightly […]
Bad Manners – Kings Arms
If you saw Douglas Trendle sitting and having a pint at the King’s Arms, you’d likely write him off at the nutter down the pub you’d rather avoid, the UKIP voter with a pitbull under a corner table and a half-looked-at copy of The Sun by his beer tankard. But on stage, Trendle becomes Buster […]
Chick Corea & Herbie Hancock – Civic Theatre
If ever there was needed any evidence to prove the power of music as a real-life fountain of youth, you only needed to watch these two jazz giants, both in their mid-seventies. The more they played together, the faster the years seemed to disappear.
Watch Tiny Ruins perform Andalucia at The 13th Floor
Tiny Ruins, aka Hollie Fullbrook stopped by The 13th Floor earlier this week to talk about her upcoming tour with Bic Runga. While she was there she performed a few songs for us. We’ll have the entire video session ready for you in a few days, but in the mean time, check out this exquisite […]
Che "Rhymefest" Smith: Rebuilding His Father’s House (Interview)
Che Smith, aka Rhymefest, is a Grammy and Oscar-winning hip-hop artist and songwriter. He is also the driving force behind the documentary In My Father’s House. The film finds Rhymefest on the Chicago’s South Side, where he and his family buy a house that turns out to be the childhood home of his father. Che […]
Anika Moa – The Powerstation
Sure, Anika Moa has performed at The Powerstation before, but on this, her first show in support of her latest album, Queen At The Table, we heard an Anika we never heard before in a Powerstation that looked vastly different that it has in the past. I arrived at the venerable venue just as She’s […]
Meet Cairo Knife Fight
Nick Gaffaney has been helming Cairo Knife Fight for several years now. With the help of friends like Joel Haines, Mark Lanegan and Aaron Tokona he has finally released his first full-length album, entitled The Colossus. With the new album comes a new tour and…a new guitarist. Nick has recruited former Black-Eyed Peas guitarist George […]
Nikolas Rossi: Making Heaven Adores You (Interview)
Heaven Adores You explores the life of singer/songewiter Elliott Smith who died tragically in 2003. The film is being featured at this year’s Documentary Edge Festival taking place now in Auckland and moving on to Wellington in June. The 13th Floor’s Marty Duda spoke to Nikolas Rossi, the director of Heaven Adores You, about his […]
Watch Anthonie Tonnon’s 13th Floor Video Session
Anthonie Tonnon helps celebrate New Zealand Music Month with a visit to The 13th Floor where he talks to Marty Duda and performs three songs from his latest album, Successor. Be sure to catch Anthonie’s vinyl release show at Freida Margolis in Grey Lynn, Auckland on Sunday, June 7th.
Lydia Lunch: I Was A Teen Terrorist (Interview -Pt2)
(This is Part Two of a two-part interview. For Part One, click here.) Lydia Lunch is many things…musician, poet, conceptualist, photographer…basically a walking work of art. Lydia was at the cutting edge of New York City’s No Wave movement when her band Teenage Jesus & The Jerks first began recording and performing in the late […]
Watch Anthonie Tonnon Perform Bird Brains at The 13th Floor
Anthonie Tonnon stopped by The 13th Floor last week to chat with Marty Duda and perform songs from his new album, Successor. We’ll have the entire video session ready for you shortly, but in the mean time, here’s Anthonie playing an acoustic version of Bird Brains from Successor. Save
Lydia Lunch: Pleasure Is The Only Rebellion (Interview)
Lydia Lunch is many things…musician, poet, conceptualist, photographer…basically a walking work of art. Lydia was at the cutting edge of New York City’s No Wave movement when her band Teenage Jesus & The Jerks first began recording and performing in the late 1970s. She’s never stopped creating, working with the likes of Thurston Moore, Robert […]
Shihad – The Powerstation
Sometimes bands and venues just seem to naturally fit…The Rolling Stones and the Marquee Club, The Grateful Dead and The Fillmore West, The Ramones and CBGB’s. Here in New Zealand we have Shihad and The Powerstation. The veteran band returned to their natural home to perform their album, Killjoy, celebrating 20 years since its release. […]
Watch Pras Michel’s 13th Floor Interview
Film producer and former Fugee Pras Michel stopped by The 13th Floor to talk about his documentary Sweet Micky For President with Marty Duda. Now showing at the Documentary Edge Festival, Sweet Micky For President tells the unlikely, but true story of Haitian pop star Michel Martelly (aka Sweet Micky) and his campaign for the […]
Mick Harvey – The Tuning Fork
Perhaps not surprisingly, the vibe at Mick Harvey’s show at Auckland’s Tuning Fork was similar in tone to Nick Cave’s solo shows this past December…just smaller in scale. Harvey delivered a short, emotionally-charged set, fired up by his excellent guitarist JP Shilo. The faithful gathered on this Wednesday night to commune with Mick Harvey and […]
Watch Mick Harvey’s 13th Floor Interview
Former Bad Seed Mick Harvey is about to embark on a four-date tour of New Zealand starting tonight with a show at Auckland’s Tuning Fork with his band, The Intoxicated Men. Mick stopped by The 13th Floor earlier today to talk to Marty Duda. Watch as Harvey reveals details of the latest PJ Harvey recording […]
David Bowie Is
Here’s a strange beast…a film about an exhibition about David Bowie. The highly acclaimed David Bowie Is exhibition is due to take up residency in Melbourne beginning in July and this documentary, shot on the last day of the original exhibition at London’s Victoria & Albert Museum in 2013, serves as a primer for the […]
New Video From Lamb
It seems this is a big day for all things Lamb-related…this is New Zealand after all. After just recieving the new single from Lamb Of God, we’ve been sent the new video from Manchester duo, Lamb. They recently performed at Auckland’s Tuning Fork…click here for the review…and now here they are with a brand new […]
New Music From Lamb Of God!
If this past weekend’s metal-fest at The Kings Arms with Red Fang and Beastwars has left you wanting more, or you just need to clean out the cobwebs, check out this brand new track from Lamb Of God. The song is called Still Echoes and it is taken from the forthcoming album, VII – Sturm […]
More Red Fang Concert Photos!
We’ve just been sent a fresh batch of photos from this weekend’s Red Fang show at The Kings Arms. Click here to check out photographer Mark Derricutt’s gallery of action shots of Red Fang, Bloodnut and Beastwars.