New Music Friday: 13th Floor New Album Picks: February 14, 2025
Happy New Music Friday and Happy Valentines day! We’ve got plenty of good new stuff for lovers of fine music, including new releases by Horsegirl, The Delines and a 100-year-old sax player.
Miss June – Halo Per Idol: 13th Floor New Song Of The Day
Miss June celebrates Valentines Day with a new single and video titled Halo Per Idol.
Gary Louris – Dark Country (Sham/Thirty Tigers)
Gary Louris has long been a master of weaving emotion into melody, and with Dark Country, he delivers an album both intimate and expansive, a reflection on love, time, and life’s unpredictable currents. This is an album of deep feeling, crafted with the patience of an artist who knows the best songs are lived as […]
AlkaSilka – Acho’s: February 12, 2025 (13th Floor Concert Review)
As the guitarist maestro Brian Purington from Swallow The Rat said as we drank fine beverages and ate magnificent Japanese bar food at Acho’s on K’Rd. “How often do you get to see a waycool punk/folk band from Japan in a New Zealand Japanese bar?” AlkaSilka are on the weekend’s bill to play with The […]
God Is An Astronaut – Tuning Fork: February 11, 2025
Twenty years plus since creation and 11 albums on, Ireland’s God Is An Astronaut have finally made it to the shores of Aotearoa, well Te Ika-a-Māui at least, for two shows. Still fronted by founders and twin brothers Niels and Torsten Kinsella, with Lloyd Hanney on drums, GIAA play a synthesis of post-prog-punk-pyschadelia with a […]
DITZ – Keeping God On Speed Dial: 13th Floor MusicTalk
DITZ is a 5-piece noise-rock band from Brighton who made waves with their 2022 debut album, The Great Regression. Now they aim to make a bigger splash with their follow-up, Never Exhale. Here are Cal and Jack to explain.
Danica Bryant – Morals: 13th Floor New Song Of The Day
Pōneke-based indie-pop star Danica Bryant is once again showcasing her knack for relatable songwriting and catchy pop hooks, with an upbeat new single + video, Morals – out today!
The Dead South Announce Australia & New Zealand Tour for November and December 2025
Canadian Bluegrass four-piece The Dead South return to Australia and New Zealand this November and December for their biggest shows yet, following 2 sold out tours across the last 2 years.
Gina Malcolm – Temptress: 13th Floor New Song Of The Day
Aotearoa/New Zealand singer-songwriter Gina Malcolm releases two new singles that impressively showcase contrasting styles of her multi-faceted songwriting…Temptress and Knee Deep.
The Jellybricks are Dreaming In Stereo: 13th Floor MusicTalk
The Jellybricks are a power-pop band based in Central Pennsylvania and signed to Little Steven’s Wicked Cool Records. Their new album, Dreaming In Stereo is their second for the label.
Damien Rice – Bruce Mason Centre: February 9, 2025 (13th Floor Concert Review)
Damien Rice made a welcome return to Auckland playing to a sold out audience 20+ years after he was last in town.
FINDMYKEYS – Game: 13th Floor New Song Of The Day
Ōtautahi rock band FINDMYKEYS have just dropped their first single of 2025, Game, in the lead up to their debut EP in a couple of months.
Brother Elsey is A Band Of Brothers (and a Drummer): 13th Floor MusicTalk Interview
Brother Elsey has just released their self-titled debut album and its about time! The three brothers and their drumming friend have been making music for years. Now, relocated to Nashville (from Michigan), things are finally happening.
Becoming Led Zeppelin Dir: Bernard MacMahon (13th Floor Film Review)
While it doesn’t tell the whole story, this “first officially sanctioned” Led Zeppelin documentary does a very good job of telling how the band got started and what made them so sonically exciting.
Laneway Festival 2025 – Western Springs: February 6, 2025
2025’s Tamaki Makaurau’s Laneway versus the 2010 inaugural, is quite a different beast. It has grown in size, evolved in music, and shifted venues three times, (with the likelihood of another venue change coming in 2026) Meanwhile the food queues still exist, the early evening waif from the portaloo encampments seeps, and FOMO still plagues […]
Squid – On Cowards And Cannibals: 13th Floor MusicTalk Interview
Squid are a five-piece “post-punk” band formed in Brighton in 2016 and are releasing their third album, Cowards, today.
New Music Friday: 13th Floor New Album Picks: February 7, 2025
New Music Friday is with us once more! And once more we have five new releases we think deserve…nay…demand…your attention. We all know about the new Kendrick Lamar album, but what about Squid, The Jellybricks and Nadia Reid?
Aubrie Mitchell – Just So Lame: 13th Floor New Song Of The Day
Quickly ascending Māori artist, songwriter and producer Aubrie Mitchell releases her latest single, the witty and retrospective track, Just So Lame.
Nadia Reid – Enter Now Brightness (Slow Time/Chrysalis)
With Enter Now Brightness, Nadia Reid delivers an album shaped by upheaval, movement, and self-reckoning. She has long been celebrated for her ethereal voice and deeply personal storytelling, establishing herself as one of New Zealand’s most distinctive singer-songwriters.
Welcome Home Dion Lunadon of The D4: 13th Floor MusicTalk
Dion Lunadon of The D4 has touched down in Auckland just in time to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the band’s second album Out Of My Head and to hit the road with his old mates, starting tomorrow.