People Places Things
Starring: Jemaine Clement, Regina Hall, Jessica Williams Flight Of The Conchords’ Jemaine Clement tries his hand as the lead in a romantic comedy set in New York…keeping his Kiwi accent intact. The romantic comedy is a peculiar beast. If done well, it feels easy and natural, but so often it fails thanks to a weak […]
Watch Ha The Unclear Perform at The 13th Floor
Here’s more exclusive music for you recorded at The 13th Floor studios. The band is Ha The Unclear…originally from Dunedin, now based in Auckland. They will perform tonight at the Portland Public House along with Dictaphone Blues before setting off for a nationwide tour later this month. We’ll have the entire video session ready soon, […]
Watch Electric Wire Hustle’s 13th Floor Video Session
Electric Wire Hustle have just released their new EP, Aeons. The duo consists of Mara TK and Taay Ninh and they have enlisted the assistance of Kimbra for their new single, Broken Sun. Mara TK stopped by The 13th Floor studios to chat with Marty Duda, show off their new line of infused gin and […]
Imagine Dragons – Vector Arena (Concert Review)
Imagine Dragons have been touring, almost continuously, for nearly seven years, Dan Reynolds told last night’s Vector Arena audience. They’ve only managed to record two albums in that time, but they have honed their live act into a tight, sharp and utterly superb performance. The evening began with a reasonable, but not especially inspiring, opening […]
A Place To Bury Strangers – Kings Arms (Concert Review)
Notoriously-loud Brooklyn-based trio A Place To Bury Strangers shook up Auckland’s Kings Arms with a mind bending set heavy on distortion and feedback…and fog. Monday night at the Kings Arms and the faithful have shown up early, eager to catch opening act, Thee Run Coves. The local rockers didn’t disappoint, getting the crowd worked up […]
Tift Merritt – The Tuning Fork (Concert Review)
Tift Merritt started her show a little shakily, with sound issues and a couple of false starts in the first few numbers. She handled them like a pro, however, quipping that the missing left channel in her keyboard in one song was akin to her dress which kept trying to fall off her left shoulder. […]
Watch Skyscraper Stan perform ‘Dancing On My Own Grave’ at The 13th Floor
Reviewer Steve McCabe was impressed with Skyscraper Stan’s performance at The Tuning Fork this past Saturday. Now you can see what all the fuss is about. Stan, and his cousin, Oskar Herbig, stopped by The 13th Floor studios to record a video session before their gig at The Tuning Fork. We’ll have the entire session […]
Holly Arrowsmith with Skyscraper Stan – The Tuning Fork (Concert Review)
A full bill at the Tuning Fork last night saw Tom Cunliffe, and then Skyscraper Stan, open for Holly Arrowsmith. Arrowsmith topped the bill, but she wasn’t the highlight of the show. Cunliffe kicked the evening off with a fairly rudimentary set of by-the-numbers folk numbers, one man and a guitar offering little new to […]
The Others Way Festival
Despite a cold, drizzling rain and an unexpected visit by the fire department, The Others Way Festival can definitely be chalked up as a success. Spread across seven venues along Auckland’s K-Road, it was easy to move around from show to show, the music was diverse and exciting and it sold out. I started my […]
Auckland International Cabaret Season: Opening Night (Concert Review)
The five-day Auckland International Cabaret Season kicked off last night with Tim Finn’s solo show, White Cloud and then a parade of seven female vocalists paying tribute to Billie Holiday inLady Sings The Blues. Tim Finn’s one man show…well, ok, two man…guitarist Brett Adams sat quietly in the corner playing along with Finn’s piano and […]
A Walk In The Woods
Starring Robert Redford, Nick Nolte & Emma Thompson 104 minutes/M – Offensive language and sexual references Bill Bryson – yes, THAT Bill Bryson of prolific popular travel writing fame – has retired and is about to settle into all that new found freedom allows. Personal family dramas are forcing him to take stock of himself […]
Watch Anna Coddington & Lips 13th Floor Video Session
Auckland’s Anna Coddington has teamed up with Silver Scroll-winning Steph Brown and Lips for a 10-date tour of New Zealand this September. Brown and bandmate Fen Ikner, recently moved from Brooklyn to Arizona but are currently in New Zealand to make some music with Anna Coddington. The trio stopped by the 13th Floor studio and […]
Garageland: We Want To Celebrate! (Interview)
Garageland is reuniting to take part in The Others Way Festival happening in Auckland this coming Friday, September 4th. This will be the first time the band has played since 2007 and the first time the original lineup has been together on stage since the 1990s. The band was a student radio favourite in the […]
Jamie Lawson – The Tuning Fork (Concert Review)
Manchester singer-songwriter Jamie Lawson opened to an attentive full house in the Tuning Fork with All Is Beauty, the first of an uninterrupted string of catchy and often achingly beautiful acoustic pop songs, hitting his stride quickly and confidently. His lovelorn serenades are reminiscent of Damien Rice, although not as dark in content and tone. Indeed Lawson […]
Postmodern Jukebox – The Powerstation (Concert Review)
You wouldn’t have thought a jazz covers band would be on a 100-date tour, but thanks to YouTube, Postmodern Jukebox made their Southern Hemisphere debut at a packed Powerstation. PMJ is the brainchild of American musician Scott Bradlee, who takes pop music in a time machine back to likes of ragtime, vintage jazz, doo-wop and […]
Watch Eden Mulholland’s 13th Floor Video Session
Eden Mulholland releases his new album, Hunted Haunted today, and The 13th Floor is excited to bring you this video session recorded just a few days ago. Watch Eden as he performs acoustic versions of two songs from the new album and talks to Marty Duda about recording Hunted Haunted in the US. Save
Still Rockin’: No Tag’s Andrew Boak (Interview)
Straight outta West Auckland, 4-piece punk band, No Tag played blistering sets to super-charged fans, desperate to let off a bit of steam. But that was 30 years ago. Now, the four members of No Tag are back together, but only briefly, scheduled to play a short set at The Kings Arms along with their […]
Watch Anna Coddington & Lips Perform ‘Traces Of Teddy’ at The 13th Floor
Anna Coddington and Lips (featuring Silver Scroll winner Steph Brown) have teamed up for a NZ tour beginning September 10th in Wellington. Click here for more details about the tour. Recently they stopped by The 13th Floor studio for a video session where they spoke to Marty Duda and performed four songs. We’ll have the […]
SNFU – Whammy bar (Concert Review)
It’s nine o clock and there’s a pretty nice turn out at Whammy already, which is rad as Whammy gigs have a reputation for being late ones (although apparently they are trying to change that; so guys, turn up to gigs at Whammy on time!). There’s plenty of familiar faces, but the older faces, the […]
Watch Eden Mulholland Perform ‘Utopia’ at The 13th Floor.
Eden Mulholland is about to release his second solo album, Hunted Haunted, the follow up to 2013’s Feed The Beast. Along with his solo work, Eden is known for playing in bands Motocade and The Mots with brothers Will and Jol Mulholland. Eden stopped in to The 13th Floor studio to play a couple of […]