Casual Healing Performs Up and Down at The 13th Floor: Singles Session
Nikau Te Huki is a unique composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist based in Pōneke, Aotearoa – and his soulful solo project goes by the name of Casual Healing. With a sold out show at Big Fan on the horizon here is Nikau to perform for you at The 13th Floor.
Jenny Don’t and The Spurs Are Broken Hearted Blue: Interview
Jenny Don’t and The Spurs are in the middle of a coast to coast tour promoting their new album, Broken Hearted Blue. We caught up with them in…New Jersey.
Nicola Cheeseman is Back -dir. by Paul Gittins: Herald Theatre (Aotea Centre) 19 June – 7 July
Nicola Cheeseman is Back is a one-woman show about that one woman’s discovery that time runs as inexorably downhill as her now sagging body — that the big choice to make for anyone of any age, is to make your own choices — and to make them now — and then hang on for dear […]
Holly Arrowsmith – Blue Dreams: 13th Floor New Song Of The Day
Holly Arrowsmith releases moving Americana single, Blue Dreams, completing her trilogy of deeply personal tracks from her upcoming album, also entitled Blue Dreams, scheduled for release on 26 July 2024 on Leather Jacket Records.
Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention – Whisky a Go Go, 1968 (Zappa/Ume)
Fifty-six years ago Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention threw a party and everybody came…or at least they had a really good time. Now, finally we can hear what went down on July 23, 1968 at the Whisky a Go Go.
toe : NEW ZEALAND EXCLUSIVE LIVE TOUR 2024
Bird’s Robe and Valhalla Touring are thrilled to announce the debut Australia and New Zealand tour of acclaimed Japanese post-rock/math band, toe, this coming October.
Ms. Mia Performs Shadows at The 13th Floor: Singles Session
Ms. Mia returns to the 13th Floor to talk about her new EP, Living In The Shadows and to perform the lead song.
Rita Mae – My Bad: 13th Floor New Song Of The Day
Aotearoa’s Rita Mae has hit the ground running, following up her massive track ‘Kiss The Sky’ with today’s grungy new single My Bad.
Dave Alvin & Jimmie Dale Gilmore – TexiCali (Yep Roc)
Dave Alvin & Jimmie Dale Gilmore reunite after their 2018 Down To Lubbock album and this time they are in TexiCali.
The Watchers – Dir: Ishana Night Shyamalan (Film Review)
The Watchers: Folk-ish horror from the daughter of M. Night Shyamalan fails to deliver on its unnerving premise.
PARK RD Announce Tour of New Zealand
PARK RD have announced they are hitting the road across Aotearoa this winter to celebrate the release of their debut album, THE NOVEL, presented by Brookvale Union.
Redd Kross – I’ll Take You’re Word For It: 13th Floor New Song Of The Day
Today Redd Kross shares I’ll Take Your Word For It, the third single made available from the highly anticipated 18-track eponymous double-album, due for release June 28, 2024 courtesy of In the Red Records.
The Dirty Three – Love Changes Everything (Mute) Album Review
Melbourne instrumental/experimental trio of Warren Ellis, Mick Turner, and Jim White – The Dirty Three, never broke up, they haven’t released an album since 2012 because they’ve been a bit busy, and they live in Paris, Melbourne and New York respectively, so getting together has been a bit tricky.
C. Zukey Performs Small Victories at The 13th Floor: Singles Session
Canadian-born New Zealand artist C. Zukey has just released Stone Fruut, his debut album as a solo artist. Here he is to sing and play a tune from that album.
Mel Parsons – Q Theatre: June 15, 2024 (13th Floor Concert Review)
Mel Parsons closed out her Sabotage Album Release Tour with a sold out concert at Auckland’s Q Theatre, a venue that seems to be growing in stature in a city that needs more quality places to play.
Reiki Ruawai – In Time: 13th Floor New Song Of The Day
Aotearoa’s Reiki Ruawai is on a winning streak, releasing ‘In Time’ – his second single of 2024.
Kerryn Fields and Matt Joe Gow – Mt. Eden Village Centre: June 14, 2024
What happens when two of your favourite artists teams up and tour? In the case of Kerryn Fields and Matt Joe Gow it’s like seeing a mini-super group.
Madeline Hawthorne Tells Tales From Late Nights and Long Drives: 13th Floor Interview
Madeline Hawthorne has just released, what she calls, “the perfect road trip record”. It’s called Tales From Late Nights and Long Drives.
The Dumb Waiter – dir: Edward Peni – June 14-15 Ellerslie War Memorial Hall (Theatre Review)
The Dumb Waiter is a two-character one-act play by Harold Pinter. Last night in Ellerslie, too few people enjoyed a deliciously delivered Pinteresque moment by (potent pause) Productions.
Earth Tongue – Great Haunting (In The Red) 13th Floor Album Review
There is a synergy in Great Haunting’s arrival on a Friday. It may be a day late for the 13th, but a day cloaked in grey skies, and replete with sudden downpours and the threat of thunder. A fitting weatherly backdrop for this brooding, opaque and often clamorous soundscape from Earth Tongue, the two-piece band […]