Matariki with Ria Hall & The Auckland Philharmonia – Auckland Town Hall: June 19, 2025
Ria Hall and the Auckland Philharmonia perform songs of defiance and redemption to celebrate Matariki at the Auckland Town Hall.
SADSMILES – Brighter Day: 13th Floor New Song Of The Day
SADSMILES is Wayne Bell and Mahoney Harris and Brighter Day is their debut single, released today.
Haim – I Quit (Polydor) 13th Floor Album Review
I Quit, the fourth album from Los Angeles-based band Haim, is about to land – and while it’s not an album you’ll want to stop listening to, it’s not a particular revolution from a thematic standpoint.
Grayson Hugh Adds Some Twang To His Blue-Eyed Soul: 13th Floor MusicTalk Interview
Grayson Hugh has released Save Your Love For Me…the new album was five years in the making, but, as you’ll hear, it was well worth the wait.
Pearly* – Superglue: 13th Floor New Song Of The Day
Today Pearly* release their album’s first single, Superglue alongside a self-produced music video to accompany it. Superglue is a heavy guitar driven power pop track melding together big Britpop melodies with early emo instrumental influences.
No Cigar – Clean: 13th Floor New Song Of The Day
Local indie-rockers NO CIGAR have revealed a moodier side to their sonic palette with today’s release of new single Clean.
James McMurtry – The Black Dog and the Wandering Boy (New West)
For over 35 years, 63 year old James McMurtry has been one of America’s most literate and quietly powerful songwriters. The Black Dog and the Wandering Boy, his eleventh studio album, and his first in four years, is further proof of his enduring craft.
Mary Chapin Carpenter – Personal History (Lambent Light Records)
Mary Chapin Carpenter’s Personal History is sad, lonely, nostalgic, reflective and, most of all, painfully honest.
Kim Gordon – Bye Bye 25: 13th Floor New Song Of The Day
Today, Kim Gordon released “BYE BYE 25!”, a remake of “BYE BYE” from her critically acclaimed second solo album, The Collective. Proceeds from the sale of “BYE BYE 25!”, both song and t-shirt, will be donated to reproductive rights nonprofit NOISE FOR NOW. Both “BYE BYE” and The Collective were nominated for GRAMMYs at the 2025 […]
Sam Cullen – That Somebody’s You: 13th Floor New Song Of The Day
Rising rocker Sam Cullen is back with a vengeance, revealing his new single and video – That Somebody’s You.
Georgia Lines & Friends – Civic Theatre: June 15, 2025
We go Under The Stars with Georgia Lines and her very special friends in what turns out to be a very special concert.
LENNY KRAVITZ ANNOUNCES NEW ZEALAND DATE
Today, 4-time GRAMMY® Award-winning writer, producer, multi-instrumentalist and all around multi-hyphenate icon, Lenny Kravitz announces his first ever tour to Aotearoa New Zealand as part of his globally praised Blue Electric Light Tour presented by TEG Live.
Lorraine Barry Has Died: R.I.P.
We are shocked and saddened to learn of the death of Lorraine Barry, manager of Sir Dave Dobbyn and others and a passionate supporter of New Zealand music and musicians.
Cowboy Dan – Whole Thing “Round: 13th Floor New Song Of The Day
Cowboy Dan offers up a 1 minute and 12 second slice of Tāmaki Makaurau angst with latest tune Whole Thing ‘Round.
Van Morrison – Remembering Now (Exile Productions/Virgin Records)
Van Morrison fans tend to be loyal. My friend Tim named his dog after the musician. And back when I was 21, I was besotted enough with Van to go to Ireland and take a train south of Dublin just to walk The Streets of Arklow (a favourite song off 1974’s Veedon Fleece).
Earth Tongue & Troy Kingi – Double Whammy: June 14, 2025
It was strange stepping into a venue that felt both completely new and intimately familiar – like walking forward and moving backward in time.
Imperial Triumphant + Cold Ceiling, No Exit & Windswept -Mothership: June 13, 2025
Imperial Triumphant. Formed in New York (where they like Jazz) by Zachary Ezrin in 2005, avant garde, experimental, even transcendental in nature, Imperial Triumphant have in their rua decades of existence, edged the Black Metal genre out of the dark ages, into an intellectual realm that the vapid have revilled against, while the valorous have […]
Devilskin – Swelter: 13th Floor New Song Of The Day
Winners of the 2025 AMA’s coveted PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD, DEVILSKIN are set to further thrill their ardent fan base with SWELTER, the second single off their hotly anticipated and 13-track studio album RE-EVOLUTION, due out Friday 11 July.
Kate Vargas – Golden Hour in the House of Lugosi (Mother West)
There’s always been a streak of theatrical grit in Kate Vargas’s music, emphasised by a taste for the surreal, the Southern Gothic, the seen-it-all-before drawl. Across the eleven restless tracks on Golden Hour in the House of Lugosi, she blends jazz touched textures, rock and roll swagger, and off kilter ballads. Where her last album […]
New Music Friday: 13th Floor New Album Picks: June 13, 2025
New Music Friday is back on The 13th Floor. And June 13th brings us new albums by Jazmine Mary, Gasoline Lollipops, Van Morrison and more!