Pokey LaFarge – Tuning Fork: May 21, 2025 (13th Floor Concert Review)
Pokey LaFarge and his band warmed up a sold-out crowd with a set of tunes that had feet tapping and souls shakin’.
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Robert Forster – Strawberries (Tapete) (13th Floor Album Review)
Robert Forster, Ex-Go-Between and current solo artist has made Strawberries, eight literate, melodic and thoughtful songs that prove that age and creatively have little to do with each other.
Petit Choux Is Wellington’s French Connection: 13th Floor MusicTalk
Petit Choux is French-born, Wellington-based singer-songwriter Sophie Sabri. The musical artist and therapist has just released her debut EP, titled, Coule.
Translator Front Man Steve Barton Goes Beyond Today: 13th Floor MusicTalk Interview
Translator was (and occasionally still is) a band based in San Francisco who put out 4 albums in the early 80s before calling it quits in 1986 with a 3-hour blow-out concert.
Joan As Police Woman – Raye Freedman Arts Centre: May 16, 2025
Joan As Police Woman returned to Auckland, kicking off a three-date solo New Zealand tour that finds her highlighting songs from her latest album, Lemons, Limes and Orchids.
Voom’s Buzz Moller Thinks Something Good Is Happening: 13th Floor MusicTalk Interview
Voom has just released a new album on Flying Nun…Something Good Is Happening is the band’s first in almost 20 years and third in as many decades.
Robin Trower Invites You To Come And Find Me: 13th Floor Interview
Robin Trower, fresh from celebrating his 80th birthday, is about to release a new album titled Come And Find Me.
Ocean Beach – Long Road Home (Freezing Works)
Born and bred in the deep South, Gary Dalhousie is the “cheese monger who learned to play guitar”, now, his band, Ocean Beach has finally released their debut album.
Darren Pickering – Small Worlds and Cinematic Jazz: 13th Floor MusicTalk Interview
Jazz pianist, composer, educator, modular synthesist and session musician Darren Pickering and his Small Worlds have just release a new album, Three, on Rattle Records.
Mclusky Is Still Here And So Are We: 13th Floor MusicTalk Interview
British punks mclusky have just released their first new album in 20 years and so bandleader Andrew Falkous fronts up to explain what took so long.