Seventies disco hitmakers Boney M brought their 9-date New Zealand tour to Auckland last night. With shows in Dunedin and Christchurch generating bad reactions from fans, the 4-piece group had their work cut out for them.
Morby follows up last year’s breakthrough album, Singing Saw with a “companion piece”, which can be seen (and heard) as the flip side of the same musical coin.
Auckland-based band The Miltones are due to release their self-titled debut album tomorrow. The album was produced by acclaimed Lyttleton studio owner Ben Edwards (Nadia Reid, Aldous Harding, Marlon Williams).
With his band Gomez on an extended hiatus, Ben Ottewell refuses to slow down, releasing his third solo album, A Man Apart just a few weeks ago and setting out on the road, with a show at Auckland’s Tuning Fork scheduled for Friday, June 23rd. The 13th Floor’s Marty Duda chatted with the gravelly-voiced musician […]
50 years after it changed the musical landscape forever, The Beatles’ eighth studio album gets a facelift. But does it need one? And how does it hold up after all these years?
Million Dollar Quartet, the Tony-nominated musical based on an impromptu jam session at Sun Studios in 1956 between Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash and Carl Perkins, opened its seven-day run at Auckland’s Civic Theatre last night.
Kirin J Callinan’s new album, Bravado, is released today. For fans, of which we here at 13th Floor certainly are, Kirin has taken a bit of a musical detour, taking a wildly eclectic group of collaborators with him. Who else would have Jimmy Barnes and James Chance on the same record. Additionally, there are contributions […]
Reb Fountain has long been a favourite here at The 13th Floor. In addition to her own music, Reb has been a part of The Eastern and sung and performed with just about everyone in New Zealand.
French quartet Phoenix is about to roll out their sixth studio album tomorrow. As the title Ti Amo would suggest, the band has based its lyrics, if not the music itself around an imaginary day in Italy. The new album was recorded in Paris over the past two years, a time and a place that […]
Following up an acclaimed debut album can be tough on an artist. For Benjamin Booker, a trip to Mexico City helped ease the pressure. The isolation and distance from his home in The States gave him the space and perspective he needed to write the songs found on Witness.
