Anyone who has spent any amount of time taking in the parade of artists that have played at the Tuning Fork over the past year or so might easily think that literally everyone and his brother who was born and raised in the American South can sing, write songs and pick a guitar. The latest […]
Don McGlashan released his latest solo album, Lucky Stars, last Friday. He spent part of that day up at The 13th Floor studios talking to Marty Duda and performing a couple of songs from the new album. We’ll have the entire session ready for you to view in a few days. Meanwhile watch as Don […]
Bloc Party front man Kele Okereke took the solo route to Auckland’s Kings Arms on Saturday night. When he finally showed up, it was with a lap top, and not a guitar in sight. Two years ago, Kele was leading his band through a raging set in front of a sold out audience at the […]
Broods’ debut album Evergreen hasn’t even reached the six-month anniversary of it’s release into the wild but this brother-sister duo from Nelson had no problem filling up Auckland’s Town Hall last night. This was the fourth stop on the Evergreen tour that finishes up tonight in Hamilton. Nashville-based support act HalfNoise – former Paramore drummer […]
Presenting himself as something like “the last man standing” (with apologies to Marky Ramone), CJ Ramone paid tribute to his fallen band mates with a solid, if somewhat predictable, set of Ramones tunes, peppered with a few of his own. I was at the Vector Arena earlier in the evening to review Roxette, so when […]
Introducing a brand-new column on the 13th Floor: The Metal News from Tove, doyenne of all things metal. So, we get to the last month of the year, and what a good one it has been! Highlights for me were definitely Korpiklaani and the beautiful M.D.C. But the year ain’t over, so here are a […]
Auckland’s Dying Of The Light are about to release their new E.P., Monolithium. In celebration, the band will be performing at The 13th Floor on Sunday evening, December 8th and you are invited! They have also produced a video of the title track. The 13th Floor’s Metal Maven, Tove Partington, has written her impressions of […]