With Vaianu visiting the next day, 13th Floor scribe Simon Coffey, slipped one in by catching returning American lofi, indie folk group The Mountain Goats, on their first visit in 16 years at his favourite Tamaki Makaurau venue – The Powerstation.
UK dream-popster Mark William Lewis, somewhat surreptitiously arrived in Aotearoa for two shows, Poneke and Tamaki Makaurau, during the long Easter Weekend (eek!) Tonight, on not-a-school-night, 13th Floor opinionated-scribe Simon Coffey followed up on a tip from his teenage son, and checked out what the hip-kids are into.
When Corrosion of Conformity’s Blind (1991) featuring the absolute banger Vote with a Bullet arrived, ears pricked up, and they stayed erect when Deliverance was delivered in1994. Albatross and Clean My Wounds, two singles from Deliverance, announced CoC had found a groove, a heavy groove, and a trio of shows, including two supporting Pantera in […]
A break, a reprieve from the rock n roll experience. The Audio Foundation, located in a basement of a building, on Poynton Terrace, is a place, an opportunity, a refuge for the adventurous, visioned, critical and genre-bashing, offers such. Armed with giant cans of Sapporo, a crisp twenty-dollar note (always supporting the locals)13th Floor pundit […]
Ladytron, the lauded English electronica group formed in Liverpool in 1999, known for synthesizing EDM, shoegaze, and 70s new wave with a synth focussed approach. Now consisting only of trio Helen Marnie, Mira Aroyo, Daniel Hunt, since longtime member Reuben Wu left in 2023.
A formidable smorgasbord of Aotearoa Alt-Music beckoned this tonight, a night stacked with post-punk, post hardcore and noise. Erase Everything frontman – Angelo Munro is fronting the door, a quick chat, we know each other. He used to listen to me on 95bFM, and I attended his Bleeders gigs. It’s quiet, and he reflects “Why […]
Les Big Byrd, part of the European Experimental and Art Rock genre alongside acts like Neu!, Hawkwind, Deus and dare I say it, The Killers.
The Brian Jonestown Massacre, the compelling American neo-psych rock band originally born in San Francisco, in 1990, by Anton Newcombe. Made infamous by the DIG! TV documentary with The Dandy Warhols in 2004. Notorious for crankin’ out albums at a superhuman rate, and for escapades on stage that portend punk attitude in their formula of […]
AW and Community Treatment Order…two noisy, post-punk bands, and a hipster DJ. Perfect for a good night out at Tamaki Makaurau’s now-not-so-secret old-worldy backwater tavern. Change… The folk at Goblin have moved the stage, maybe recently, maybe a while ago, it now sits in the middle of the room, the DJ relegated to a tidy […]
Atlanta, USA punk band Upchuck, formed in 2018, are a favourite of such luminaries as Iggy Pop and Ty Segall. Led by Kaila “KT” Thompson, they opened for Amyl & the Sniffers back in ‘24 in the UK, and thus have an affinity with this part of the world.
