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!
Sean Cunningham has just released his debut solo album, Whatever That Is. Based in Nashville, Kiwi music fans may remember Sean as the charismatic frontman for the record-setting band Atlas. But as t…
The Decemberists have just released As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again, their 9th studio album overall and first since 2018. Here is front man Colin Meloy to tell us why he thinks every Decemberists…
The Dirty Three have just released Love Changes Everything. Here is Jim White to tell us how and why he, Warren Ellis and Mick Turner reunited to make this, their first new album in 12 years.
Marty Du…
George Ducas was born in Galveston, Texas and now lives in Southern California. We found him in Nashville, Tennessee, waiting for the release of his latest album, appropriately titled, Long Way From …
The Austin-based trio Fastball has been together for over 30 years and today they release their new album, Sonic Ranch. Like Abbey Road, this is a record named after the studio it was recorded at.
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Jenny Don't and The Spurs are in the middle of a coast to coast tour promoting their new album, Broken Hearted Blue. We caught up with them in...New Jersey.
Marty Duda spoke to Jenny and Kelly Hallibu…
Madeline Hawthorne has just released, what she calls, “the perfect road trip record”. It’s called Tales From Late Nights and Long Drives.
Marty Duda found Madeline at home in Bozeman, Montana where sh…
The Hollywood Stars formed in 1973 thanks to rock 'n roll Svengali Kim Fowley. Kim is long gone, but the band is back and with a new album titled Starstruck. Here are Scott Phares and Jeff Jourard to…
John Grant is about to release his new album, conspicuously titled The Art Of The Lie. Here he is, an American in Iceland commenting and singing about the state of the union of both his native countr…
Jesse Dayton follows his critically acclaimed album with Samantha Fish with a set of hard rocking tunes produced by Shooter Jennings called The Hard Way Blues.
Marty Duda found Jesse in Austin, Texas …
Logan Lynn is something of a modern-day renaissance man...a musician, writer, producer, filmmaker, television personality, mental health advocate, and LGBT activist. His new album, SOFTCORE, has jus…
Bonny Light Horseman is Anaïs Mitchell, Eric D. Johnson, and Josh Kaufman. Together they have made a double album titled Keep Me On Your Mind/See You Free.
Marty Duda spoke to Anaïs and Josh about ho…
Pissed Jeans have just released their first album in seven years. Its called Half Divorced and direct from Philadelphia, PA, here is frontman Matt Korvette to tell us what took so long.
Marty Duda spo…
Shannon and The Clams have just released their 7th studio album, The Moon Is In The Wrong Place, produced by The Black Keys' Dan Auerbach and released on his Easy Eye label. But as you'll hear, there…
Marty Duda spoke to Eric Earley, the main creative force behind Blitzen Trapper. Eric reveals how he went from majoring in math to making music and who the band is that he loved the most growing up.
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Call Me Spinster are three sisters from Chattanooga, Tennessee who have just released a new album titled Potholes and are new ready to spill the beans on recording in Athens and living in Chattanooga…
Mick Harvey is on a roll! Just months after releasing Phantasmagoria with Amanda Acevedo, here he is again with another album. Five Ways To Say Goodbye finds the former Bad Seed covering Neil Young a…
Veteran Scottish punk rockers The Skids are touring New Zealand for the first time in their 45 year career. The 13th Floor’s Marty Duda spoke to Richard Jobson about all things punk
Big/Brave is a Montreal-based noise band fronted by Robin Wattie and signed to Thrill Jockey Records. Their new album is an aural feast entitled A Chaos Of Flowers.
Marty Duda spoke to Robin about mak…
Marty Duda spoke to bass player (and fashion-slave) Sam Kiszka about what fans can expect when he and his brothers head down under on their Starcatcher World Tour