8+ hour, 16+ min ago   (74+ words) Two distinct voices from Aotearoa’s alternative music underground come together for one dark, immersive night at Corban Estate. Ukrainian-born and Aotearoa-raised, VÏKAE creates calamity pop for a world caught somewhere between beauty, panic and collapse. Blending industrial electronics, distorted pop,…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (516+ words) Kiwi Jr. – Blowin’ Up (Perennial) (13th Floor Album Review) 13thfloor.co.nz Canadian indie-rockers Kiwi Jr. are back with their third album Blowin Up’. After a fairly long break and a whole load of demos, the band opted for a change of…...

3+ mon, 5+ hour ago   (289+ words) At just eight songs and 29 minutes, Just Janie’s debut album Mythology of the Girls is brief, yet it casts a surprisingly wide shadow. That is the album’s most compelling tension. Mythology of the Girls is in love with the sound…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (124+ words) Aldous Harding’s Train On The Island turns movement into enclosure, building a song cycle where travel rarely means escape. Train On The Island is a tightening of Harding’s unsettling world. Its songs are funny without offering relief, intimate without becoming…...

3+ mon, 4+ week ago   (279+ words) After teasing with two singles last year, The Ideas self-titled debut has finally arrived—lovingly recorded live to tape, with few, if any overdubs discernible. This Tāmaki Makaurau two-piece – Max Leask (vocals/guitar) and Josiah Weston (drum) together create musical…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago   (293+ words) English eighties glam-rockers Transvision Vamp wrapped up their reunion at Auckland’s Powerstation, some 35 years after they last played here. Led by vocalist Wendy James, the band had their moment in the sun in the late 1980’s with hits like Baby…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago   (692+ words) Daniel Avery’s Tremor (Midnight Versions) pushes the material of his sixth album back onto the dancefloor. Rather than inviting outside remixers, Avery reworks the entire record himself, reshaping its collaborative songs into darker, club-focused counterparts designed for late-night sets and…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago   (703+ words) The Brook & The Bluff – Werewolf (Dualtone) (13th Floor Album Review) 13thfloor.co.nz The Brook & The Bluff are soulful soft rockers no more. They loosen up and let rip on Werewolf, a rowdy and welcome departure from their earlier work. Aiming to…...

7+ mon, 4+ day ago   (317+ words) Beloved modern-day troubadour John Craigie has shared his new single, Edna Strange, available now at all streaming services. Here is the blurb with more: The track heralds the Portland, OR-based artist’s much-anticipated new album, I Swam Here, arriving Friday, February…...

7+ mon, 5+ day ago   (220+ words) Berlin-based Kiwi Muroki is about to release his long-awaited debut album, Amber Skies. The 13th Floor’s Marty Duda found Muroki holidaying on the Coramandel just ahead of release day and the beginning of his NZ tour. Here he is to tell…...