After a watershed year in 2024 with SABOTAGE, multi award-winning and 2025 Taite Prize finalist Mel Parsons brings a taste of things to come with her upbeat, introspective new single and video Post High Slide.
We caught up with Crowded House and Mel Parsons at Wolfbrook Arena in Christchurch as their Gravity Stairs Tour winds its way through Aotearoa. The 13th Floor presents Ryan Fisherman‘s review and Stephanie Cartwright’s photos for your perusal…
Mel Parsons brought her Regional Sabotage tour to Waiheke Island. Fortunately 13th Floor review writer Robin Kearns and photographer Brenna Jo Gotje are island residents and here’s their coverage.
Mel Parsons closed out her Sabotage Album Release Tour with a sold out concert at Auckland’s Q Theatre, a venue that seems to be growing in stature in a city that needs more quality places to play.
Its the first New Music Friday of June and there is no shortage of new releases to sift through. After great effort and thought, here are The 13th Floor’s top 5 picks from today’s bounty of new music.
Mel Parsons is just about to release her new album, titled Sabotage and we thought we’d take the opportunity to talk to Mel about how it came to be.
A last minute venue change landed Chris Isaak and his band at the more intimate Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre here in Auckland as Chris and the band closed out their tour in style.
Critically-acclaimed Mel Parsons will release her new album SABOTAGE on June 7 and has also announced a three-date New Zealand tour, before she heads to Canada for a northern hemisphere festival run.
The award-winning, Lyttelton-based artist Mel Parsons has today shared her new single ‘Little Sadness’. This is the second track to be released from her forthcoming LP out later this year and comes with a captivating video, made by Tāmaki Makaurau musician and filmmaker Morgan Leary.
The Teskey Brothers performed at Auckland Town Hall last night, delivering an evening of soulful energy and heart-stirring melodies that celebrated their long-awaited return to our shores.