The 13th Floor

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The 13th FloorScenesFlyte – The Tuning Fork: November 13, 2026 (13th Floor Concert Review) At the Tuning Fork on Friday night, boyhood friends Will Taylor and Nick Hill of Hackney-based Flyte distilled the enduring influence of British literary tradition into a set that bridged art and…

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The 13th FloorScenesMortiis – Double Whammy: November 13, 2026 (13th Floor Concert Review) Gig-goers at Double Whammy experienced three distinct flavours of metal music last night, with Kiwi acts Vox Umbrae and Windswept supporting the headliner, Norway’s Mortiis, playing to a New Zealand…

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The 13th FloorScenesGoodnight Nurse – The Powerstation: November 13, 2026 (13th Floor Concert Review) Goodnight Nurse – still hot, still heartbreaking! If I could paint the perfect boyfriend, Goodnight Nurse would be what he listens to 24 hours of the day – My brain, twenty years ago.

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The 13th FloorScenesThe Datsuns – Moonstruck Man (Hellsquad) (13th Floor Album Review) The Datsuns are back with their seventh album Moonstruck Man. Spread now across Sweden, Aotearoa and Japan, the band has given us their latest hard rock offering after nearly thirty years on the job.

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The 13th FloorScenesRomi Wrights + EO 💥 Auckland show in 2 weeks! Ever since we saw Romi Wrights and extraordinary band open for soul legend Lee Fields back in 2023, we’ve been super fans.

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The 13th FloorScenesDownriver – Downriver (13th Floor Album Review) Whakatū six-piece Downriver make an appealingly loose, melodic form of folk-rock on their self-titled debut album, Downriver.

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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.

More than three hundred sources, in sixteen languages: 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.