13th Floor MusicTalk is just that...Marty Duda, award winning New Zealand-based music journalist and founder of music and arts website The 13th Floor talks to the world's premiere music makers about their art. From up-and-comers to crusty old veterans, from rock & roll to country, soul and pop, its all here!
American singer-songwriter David Wilcox has released a new album titled The Way I Tell The Story made with the help of friends like Daryl Jones, Jeff Pevar, Philippe Saisse and Bill Berg.
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Asleep At The Wheel is still going strong after 55 years with their new album, Riding High In Texas featuring newest man Ian Stewart on fiddle and vocals...and don't worry, founding member Ray Benson…
Whanganui-based blues rockers BB & The Bullets release their debut album, High Tide, today...a collection of original tunes sprinkled with a few old favourites.
The 13th Floor's Marty Duda gathered th…
New Zealand-based musicians, composers and producers Rhian Sheenhan and Arli Liberman have joined forces to create Traces, 8 new ambient tracks that are both immersive and intimate…futuristic and nos…
Tav Falco, he of Panther Burns, is about to release Desire On Ice, a new collection of old favourites "reinterpreted in new and unlikely ways".
The 13th Floor's Marty Duda found Tav in Thailand where …
Ed Kuepper co-founded The Saints in 1973 and made music history with debut single, I’m Stranded in 1976. Now Ed has formed The Saints ’73-’78 along with drummer Ivor Hay and ringers Mick Harvey (Bad …
SunYears is the current solo project by Peter, Bjorn and John’s Peter Morén. Or is it? Here is Peter to tell us if SunYears is an alter ego or a band.
The 13th Floor’s Marty Duda spoke to Peter, who w…
Bluesbreaker Walter Trout has just released a new album, Sign Of The Times, his third in the past four years.
The 13th Floor’s Marty Duda asked the former member of Canned Heat and John Mayall’s Blues…
Tami Neilson has had quite a year…touring with Willie and Bob and releasing her critically acclaimed Neon Cowgirl album along with playing with Neil Finn and Kaylee Bell at Roundhead Studios.
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Grant-Lee Phillips has just released his latest album titled In The Hour Of Dust, and here he is to explain what it all means.
The 13th Floor’s Marty Duda spoke to Grant-Lee Phillips at his home in Na…
Margo Price has just released her new album, Hard Headed Woman, touted as "a return to Country Music"...but on her terms.
The 13th Floor's Marty Duda spoke to Margo shortly after release day and talke…
Dunedin indie-rockers Pearly* have just released their debut album, Not So Sweet, immediately garnering rave reviews.
Marty Duda found Joel Field and Phaedra Love having a cold one at their local, Pea…
Coyle Girelli has just released a new solo album...a collaboration of sorts, with the late, great Mac Davis (Suspicious Minds/Baby Don't Get Hooked On Me) called Out Of This Town, on Sun Records!
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New Math were one of the first punk/new wave/post-punk bands to emerge from Rochester, New York,, a city that, until then was known for Chuck Mangione, Lou Gramm and Eastman Kodak Company.
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Georgia Lines is on the move! After releasing her new EP, The Guest House, and playing couple of shows, the Tui-winner is heading north to Nashville.
The 13th Floor’s Marty Duda spoke to Georgia just …
The Texas Headhunters are Jesse Dayton, Ian Moore and Johnny Moeller and together these three Texas tornadoes have created quite a storm on their just-released debut album.
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Pete Droge has just released his first solo album in a while, Fade Away Blue, a autobiographical affair with some of the best session players supporting Pete’s songs.
The 13th Floor’s Marty Duda found…
Award-winning Kiwi singer, songwriter and producer Janine has just released a new album titled Pain and Pleasure and is happy to tell us all about it.
The 13th Floor’s Marty Duda found Janine in her a…
The Grip Weeds have released Soul Bender and founding member Kurt Reil reports from Upstate New York on how it all came together.
The 13th Floor’s Marty Duda spoke to Kurt about the band’s experience …
From Hobsonville comes Ed Ackman and his EP, Cocoon...4 songs written by Ed with more than a little help from A.I.
The 13th Floor's Marty Duda spoke to the retired advertising guru about how and why h…