Jimmy Barnes Working Class Boy: An Evening of Stories and Songs
Jimmy Barnes will kick off his New Zealand WORKING CLASS BOY: An Evening of Stories and Songs tour on Monday 6 February in Invercargill. The ten date tour will see Jimmy make his way up the country performing in special venues nationwide. Surrounded on stage by his children, Jimmy will bring his recently released book […]
Duke Garwood – Garden Of Ashes (Heavenly)
London-based blues musician Duke Garwood begins the new year in top form, unleashing his 7th album Garden of Ashes, an ambient and atmospheric odyssey which drips with post-apocalyptic melancholy and madness.
Fazerdaze Releases New Track Lucky Girl, Announces Debut LP Morningside & NZ Tour Dates
Last year, New Zealand’s Fazerdaze (aka Amelia Murray) dropped the track Little Uneasy and promised herself to release her debut LP in 2017. Now the details are here.
Womad 2017 Interview: BAYNK
This is the second in our series on upcoming artists performing at WOMAD 2017. This time, it’s BAYNK, aka Jock Nowell-Usticke, the Kiwi university student who chucked up a song up on SoundCloud back in early 2015 while travelling around Europe and scored himself an appearance at a major local music festival (St Jerome’s Laneway), […]
Check Out New Music From Blondie!
Here’s something to light up your Thursday… Blondie lights up 2017 with the release of their 11th studio album Pollinator through Liberator Music / BMG on May 5th – an incredible new record and a modern take on the classic, vintage sound of one of the world’s most influential and legendary bands.
Old Crow Medicine Show Released Unreleased Tune ‘Black Haired Québécoise’!
With a “Best Of” collection on the horizon, Old Crow Medicine Show have just released a previously unheard studio recording overseen by David Rawlings… “‘Black Haired Québécoise’ adds a jolt of history to the album’s hits collection, capturing the young band during a rousing, ramshackle recording session with producer David Rawlings.” – Rolling Stone “Black-Haired […]
Howe Gelb – Future Standards (Fire)
I have to confess my heart dipped a little when I saw the title of this album. Recent albums with the word standard in them by Dylan, Elvis Costello, and even Willie Nelson have seemed to me to signal that the performer has given up on their own songwriting and is content to just serve […]
Patriots Day
Director: Peter Berg 15th of April 2013 was a perfect spring day in Boston, Massachusetts – Patriots Day – honouring the first battles of the American Revolution and the day of the annual Boston Marathon. And the day chosen by the Chechen-refugee Tsarnaev brothers, Tamerlan (Themo Melikidze) and Dzhokar (Alex Wolff) as the date of […]
Punk It Up Returns for 2017
Following on from a packed sold out event in September 2015, at Auckland’s “soon to be lost forever” King’s Arms Tavern in Newton, PUNK IT UP returns to the KA this April 8th, ready to melt your f**king face off.
Watch: New Video From Ryan Adams
Here’s the blurb behind the video… After releasing Do You Still Love Me? out into the world, Ryan Adams has shared the video for the first single off his highly anticipated 15th studio album, Prisoner—out February 17th on Pax-Am/Blue Note.
Tame Impala: The 13th Floor Interview – Part 2
Yesterday we brought you the first half of our exclusive interview with Tame Impala main man Kevin Parker in which he addressed the rumours about the band’s demise and his collaboration with Lady Gaga. (Click here to read Pt 1). Now, during the second half of the conversation between Parker and The 13th Floor’s Marty […]
More Laneway Pix: The Veils and Chet Faker!
For those of you who can’t get enough of Laneway 2017, 13th Floor photographer David Watson has served up more photos from Monday’s festival in Albert Park.
More Adele Tickets Made Available For Auckland Shows
As part of her record-breaking Live 2017 tour, global superstar ADELE will reign over Australia and New Zealand for a strictly limited eleven dates, with no opportunity to add additional shows.
Bob Dylan Announces New 3-Disc Studio Album
Continuing in his quest to become America’s favourite crooner, Bob Dylan has announced the imminent release of Triplicate, a three-disc set of newly-recorded standards due to become available on March 31st. Here’s the lowdown from Bob Dylan’s website plus a track from the new album:
R.I.P. John Wetton
A member of King Crimson, UK and Asia, vocalist and bassist John Wetton has passed away at the age of 67. Wetton was forced to bow out of the latest Asia tour due to his treatment for colon cancer. John Wetton was a member of King Crimson from 1972-1974 contributing to Larks’ Tongues In Aspic, […]
Split
Director M Night Shayamalan M Night Shyamalan has returned, sending shudders down the spines of those who have been subjected to the bulk of his previous outings like The Last Airbender (2010,) The Village (2004) and Signs (2002.) Astonishingly, he has redeemed himself with Split. Split is the story of Kevin (James McAvoy,) a man […]
Laneway Festival – Albert Park January 30, 2017
One thing seems unanimous…everyone loves the choice of Albert Park as the new location of the Laneway Festival in Auckland. Really, the music seemed to take a back seat to the setting this time around and that’s not necessarily a bad thing. The entire park and adjacent Princes Street suddenly became just a great place […]
Watch: Finn Andrews Of The Veils Talks To The 13th Floor at Laneway 2017
One of the highlights of yesterday’s Laneway Festival was the intense set by The Veils. For our final installment in our series of Laneway Video Interviews we have Veils front man Finn Andrews talking to The 13th Floor’s Marty Duda. Finn addresses the future of The Veils and his own acting gig for David Lynch’s […]
Watch: Max & Julien of Whitney Talk To The 13th Floor at Laneway 2017
Fresh from their US TV debut on Late Night with Stephen Colbert, Max Kakacek and Julien Ehrlich of Chicago-based band Whitney, talk to The 13th Floor’s Marty Duda at yesterday’s Laneway Festival.
Watch: Mish of White Lung Talks To The 13th Floor at Laneway 2017
Here’s our second in a series of video interviews recorded at yesterday’s Laneway Festival. This one features White Lung frontwoman Mish Barker-Way talking to The 13th Floor’s Marty Duda about the changes the band has gone through since they last performed in Auckland in 2014.