Justin Bieber – Mt Smart Stadium March 18, 2017
The 13th Floor’s Kate Powell on Justin Bieber’s Auckland show… Justin, Justin, Justin. Oh. Justin Justin, Justin, No. Where do I even begin?
The 13th Floor’s Kate Powell on Justin Bieber’s Auckland show… Justin, Justin, Justin. Oh. Justin Justin, Justin, No. Where do I even begin?
I first encountered Pixies by way of a burnt CD thrust into my hands by a classmate after a Classics lesson in 2005. “You’ll probably like these guys they’re weird” he said as he disappeared into the throng of teenagers.
When it comes to the invention of Punk, forget The Sex Pistols and forget The Clash. The Damned beat both of them to every punch, including being the first UK Punk band to release a single and an album in 1976. But they never quite fitted in with the rest of the punk movement, so […]
If I am fortunate enough to have any regular readers of my work, they will know that I have a long-standing appreciation of hip-hop and rap. My love, on reflection seems to have few bounds, stretching from G-Funk, Boom-Bap and Gangsta, through to politically conscious, avant-garde or a smidge of underground club hip-hop. If the […]
The history of the Fringe Festival can be traced back to Edinburgh 1947, when eight theatre companies gatecrashed the city’s inaugural International Culture Festival. Since its naissance, the Fringe Festival ethos of expression, inclusion, and experimentation has made it a hotbed for amateur and professional creatives alike. Despite the “Fringe” tag, the festival has launched […]
Tragic at the Disco… For better or for worse, music has the ability to capture a moment, a feeling or a mood. It is something that is almost primeval, that defies any carefully curated notions of taste. For this writer, the woefully bad pop-punk phase circa 2005-2006 is one that continues to tug on my […]
One thing seems unanimous…everyone loves the choice of Albert Park as the new location of the Laneway Festival in Auckland. Really, the music seemed to take a back seat to the setting this time around and that’s not necessarily a bad thing. The entire park and adjacent Princes Street suddenly became just a great place […]
Thirty years ago, Dinosaur Jr wrote the manual on fuzzy impressionistic downer rock. While it’s been subtlety rewritten over the course of 11 studio albums, the most important aspect of a Dinosaur Jr record has been the mood that seems to permeate all of them. The longevity of Dinosaur Jr can be just as much […]
Whoever is organising the gigs at REC is doing a top-notch job. After three sold out shows of Conan Moccasin, New Zealand’s own sleaze-funk prince, this Saturday they hosted indie-pop stalwarts The Ruby Suns.
We all know that 2016 got Black Mirror levels of topsy-turvy, but perhaps one of the (rightly) less analysed stories of the year was the bizarre influence of The XX’s self titled debut released 11 years earlier had on mainstream pop charts in 2016. Their fingerprints are all over last year’s top 40- from Drake […]