BLOOD INCANTATION + Secret Chiefs 3 – Aotearoa Tour
Cosmic Death Metal Titans BLOOD INCANTATION return to Australia and Aotearoa in November 2025, 3 years after their last highly lauded visitation.
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Kaylee Bell Announces Cowboy Up New Zealand Tour
New Zealand country-pop powerhouse Kaylee Bell is hitting the road this November for her biggest headline shows to date, announcing the ‘Cowboy Up Tour’, a five-date tour through some of the country’s most iconic theatres.
French For Rabbits – Grey Lynn RSC: June 28, 2025
French for Rabbits, a dream-pop indie-folk duo from Wellington that have garnered global touring success played a melodic and ethereal set to open the night, for the tour supporting the release of their latest single, Gold and Blue.
Lorde – Virgin (Universal) (13th Floor Album Review)
Lorde’s fourth album, Virgin, marks a daring and deeply personal evolution that both builds on and breaks away from her earlier work. On her last album, Solar Power, Lorde drifted into moments of detachment and sun-bleached aloofness. Virgin returns to the visceral.
Fishbone Develops Stockholm Syndrome: 13th Floor MusicTalk Interview
Veteran ska/punk/roots/rockers Fishbone return with Stockholm Syndrome, their first new album in nearly 20 years.
Strange Journey: The Story Of Rocky Horror – Dir: Linus O’Brien (13th Floor/Doc Edge Film Review)
Strange Journey: The Story Of Rocky Horror is the debut film made by Linus O’Brien whose dad is Richard O’Brien, who is, among many other things, New Zealand’s most underrated filmmaker.
Teenager – Sail The Seas: 13th Floor New Song Of The Day
After reuniting earlier this year with their first single in almost two decades, Teenager – the collaborative project of Nick Littlemore (PNAU, Empire of the Sun) and Pip Brown (Ladyhawke) – are back with Sail The Seas, the second single from their highly anticipated new body of work, Fourteen, due later this year.
Ringlets Release Day: Time For Walkies! 13th Floor MusicTalk Interview
Ringlets have released their second album today…The Lord Is My German Shepherd (Time For Walkies). Here is guitarist Lázsló Reynolds to with the inside story on the new album, their first for Flying Nun.
George Bernard Shaw’s Saint Joan – Dir: Grace Augustine: Q Theatre June 25, 2025 (13th Floor Theatre Review)
Saint Joan puts us into the mind of a young girl who led a revolution, to be betrayed by those her will and resolve had elevated. As the curtain closes on Flyleaf Theatre’s magnificently sparse re-creation of Bernard Shaw’s masterwork, an audience member behind us cried out, “Holy fuck!” I knew how she felt. We felt […]
People of the Sun – People of the Sun (13th Floor Album review)
People of the Sun is the self-titled first offering from accomplished and talented trio, Joseph Anderson, Djordje Nikolic, and Tom Scrase hailing from New Plymouth.