The 13th Floor

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The 13th FloorScenesBlack Sheeps Dir: Jonathan King (13th Floor Film Review) Twenty years after the first one, the evil sheep are back. Killer bears, killer sharks, even killer kangaroos have all had their turn. In Aotearoa, sheep are a bit different.

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The 13th FloorScenesWeezer Announces Weezer: The Gathering Australia + New Zealand Tour 2027 With Special Guests Third Eye Blind & Fountains Of Wayne In 2027, prepare to play and have some fun when WEEZER brings its Weezer: The Gathering Tour to some islands in the sun, returning to Australia and New Zealand next February and March.

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The 13th FloorScenesTEEKS Tours Brand New Album Lovers Comet Across Aotearoa in 2027 Aotearoa soul artist TEEKS (Ngāpuhi, Ngāi Te Rangi, Ngāti Ranginui) today announces an extensive tour across Aotearoa in March 2027, alongside the release of his sophomore album Lovers Comet, out now…

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The 13th FloorScenesDirt Road Orchestra – Drifty Man (Swimminghole) (13th Floor Album Review) On the cover of Drifty Man, a man in a hat flies out over the sea, arms outstretched above the coastline.

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The 13th FloorScenesOvO (Italy) + TOOMS + Exit Sign – Mothership: October 30, 2026 (13th Floor Concert Review) One out of the bag: a rare chance to see an act from Italy in Aotearoa. OvO are an Italian noise-rock and neo-industrial sludge duo formed in 2000.

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The 13th FloorScenesCumbia Blazera – ¡BLAZE! (13th Floor Album Review) Wellingtonian Latin band Cumbia Blazera aim to get their audience dancing with their sophomore album ¡BLAZE!.

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The 13th FloorScenesLoudon Wainwright III is 80 and Loving It! – 13th Floor MusicTalk Interview Loudon Wainwright III has just turned 80, and by the looks of clips from his birthday bash at New York Town Hall, he’s wearing it well.

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The 13th FloorScenesGreg Johnson – Holy Trinity Cathedral: October 31, 2026 (13th Floor Concert Review) Aucklander and long-time LA resident Greg Johnson is back in Aotearoa in his birthday year and sharing the love.

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The 13th FloorScenesTāke Kurī, the Dog Tax Rebellion – Te Pou Theatre: October 29, 2026 (13th Floor Theatre Review) Going to Tāke Kurī, the Dog Tax Rebellion set in 1898 in a theatre in West Auckland could feel like a bit of a leap of time and space and culture. But it was thoroughly rewarding.

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The 13th FloorScenesKarina Rykman – Late Checkout (High Rotation) (13th Floor Album Review) Karina Rykman’s second album, Late Checkout, is bright, restless, rhythmically adventurous and full of unexpected turns.

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Three pins, and nearly every signal in this business passes through them.

The magazine is named after the cable: the microphone in the booth, the line to the desk, the DMX run that fires the lights. Studio, stage and rig share the same cable. Most magazines pick one of the three. This one covers all of it, because the people we read do too — the engineer mixing a record on Tuesday is on front of house by Saturday.

Around a hundred and sixty sources, in English, Japanese, Spanish, German, French, Chinese and Italian: makers and their release notes, reviewers who put a hand on the thing, studios and touring crews, the producers and collectives surfacing this month and the scenes they came out of. Synths and modular, plugins and DAWs, guitars and drums, microphones, monitors, PA and lighting. What the trade is talking about is counted and plotted. The editor's letter has just started; it will find its rhythm.

For each story: a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link out. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the maker or the photographer. A German review appears in German and a Japanese one in Japanese, as the writer published it; the link goes to the original.

Nothing is sold on this site. When a link leads to a shop, it is the maker's shop, not ours.