Toody Cole – Whammy Bar: November 25, 2025 (13th Floor Concert Review)
With three top notch bands on the bill, Whammy Bar was buzzing tonight long before Toody Cole took the stage.
Concert photos
More Suicidal Tendencies! (13th Floor Photo Gallery)
The Suicidal Tendencies show at The Powerstation was, by all accounts, one for the ages.
Pixies – Auckland Town Hall: November 23, 2025 (13th Floor Concert Review)
Last night the Pixies delivered their Bossanova & Trompe Le Monde set to the Town Hall with an almost frightening intensity.
Tool – Spark Arena: November 22, 2025 (13th Floor Concert Review)
Tool returned to Auckland for their 6th visit and 9th show and their first since February 2020. We all know what happened after that…
Beastwars – Double Whammy: November 21, 2025 (13th Floor Concert Review)
Pōneke four-piece, Beastwars, described as Aotearoa’s premier doom-sludge bootstrappers, have just released a brand-new album, their sixth, The Ship//The Sea, fitted in a four date Australian tour, and are midway through a five date tour of our nga motu’s.
Metallica – Eden Park: November 19, 2025 (13th Floor Concert Review)
There was something oddly spiritual about walking down the blocked-off roads of Kingsland amongst the horde of Metallica fans into Eden Park yesterday afternoon – that strange twilight hour that only exists before a behemoth of a band hits the stage, where Auckland feels half asleep and half feral and the clouds hang low and […]
Suicidal Tendencies – The Powerstation: November 18, 2025 (13th Floor Concert Review)
Suicidal Tendencies led by American hardcore punk legend Mike Muir, have spent 40 years creating there own synthesis of punk, hardcore, thrash and metal, an evolving sound that has threatened singles and album charts occasionally, but never left the hearts, minds and ears of their fans, their generations of fans.
Opeth – Trusts Arena: November 14, 2025 (13th Floor Concert Review)
Progressive metal band Opeth last visited New Zealand in 2017, the five-piece lineup—Mikael Åkerfeldt (guitar, vocals), Martín Méndez (bass), Fredrik Åkesson (guitar, backing vocals), Joakim Svalberg (keyboards, backing vocals), and Waltteri Väyrynen (drums)—returned after eight years with their critically acclaimed album, The Last Will and Testament. The show was originally scheduled for Auckland Town Hall, but overwhelming demand pushed it to Trusts […]
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – Tuning Fork: November 11, 2025 (13th Floor Concert Review)
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah played the Tuning Fork last night along with opener Beth Torrance…The 13th Floor’s Lawrence Mikkelsen files this report along with Brenna Jo Gotje’s photo.
Grentperez – Auckland Town Hall: November 7, 2025 (13th Floor Concert Review)
It had been just over two years since I first stumbled across Grentperez on a late-night TikTok scroll, his voice lilting through my phone speaker like a small kindness in the middle of the week.