13th Floor MusicTalk

British punks mclusky have just released their first new album in 20 years and so bandleader Andrew Falkous fronts up to explain what took so long.

Marty Duda spoke to Andrew, who was in Bristol, to t…

Justin Devereux is an ex-pat Kiwi, based in L.A. who has just released his debut album, Nickels&Dimes.

Marty Duda spoke to Justin about his life in L.A. and why he chose to record his album back in Ne…

TALL TALES is the debut collaborative album and visual experience from Radiohead’s Thom Yorke, Electronica artist Mark Pritchard and film director Jonathan Zawada.

Marty Duda goes deep into the making…

Veteran funk-rockers Little Feat are about to release their 16th...or is it 17th...studio album. Strike Up The Band is classic Little Feat and here is vocalist/guitarist/songwriter Scott Sharrard to …

PUP, the pop-punk band based in Toronto, Canada has just released their fifth album, asking the musical question, Who Will Look After The Dogs.

Marty Duda spoke to guitarist Steve Sladkowski just days…

Dope Lemon (aka Angus Stone) releases Golden Wolf. This is the fifth Dope Lemon album, one that will be followed by live shows coming in July.

The 13th Floor's Marty Duda spoke to Angus about the conc…

Craig Finn is the lead singer for The Hold Steady, but he also has a flourishing solo career, with a new album out called Always Been.

Marty Duda found Craig at home in Brooklyn, NY, just as he was pa…

Multi-disciplinary artist Lonnie Holley has released Tonky, another collaboration with producer Jacknife Lee that breaks new ground while simultaneously mining the rich history of the blues and gospe…

Haiku Redo is an Auckland-based power pop quartet, led by Craig Horne and borne out of the ashes of Andrew Fagan's band LIG. The new album is called Disco Summer.

Marty Duda spoke to Craig just after …

Austin-based singer-songwriter Taylor Rae has just released her second album, The Void and we think she’s onto something special.

 Marty Duda spoke to Taylor just after release day to find her ready t…

At the tender age of 80, Detroit native and Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame member Mitch Ryder is still rocking like its was 1965.

Marty Duda spoke to Mitch about his new album, With Love, produced by fello…

Dunedin artist Neive Strang has just released her new album, Find Me In The Rabbit Hole, working for the first time with a producer…Sean James Donnelly…aka SJD.

Marty Duda spoke to Neive about how she…

JD Clayton has just released his second album, titled Blue Sky Sundays. The son-of-Southern preacher man muses on the premise that, perhaps, "Rock is a sub-genre of Country, now".

Marty Duda spoke to…

Direct from Christchurch, it’s Emma Dilemma, here to talk abut her new, “surprise” EP, titled Ouch My Head Hurts.

Marty Duda spoke to Emma on release day, which also happened to be Good Friday, to tal…

A stalwart of the fertile North Carolina music scene that bred the likes of Don Dixon and Chris Stamey, Peter Holsapple is a founding member of The dBs and the Continental Drifters. His latest solo a…

jasmine.4.t is a trans woman who has just made an album with Phoebe Bridgers, Lucy Dackus and Julien Baker, aka boygenius.

Marty Duda spoke to jasmine.4.t who was in Manchester having just played to a…

Here is Austin-based singer/songwriter David Ramirez to fill us in on his new album, All The Not So Gentle Reminders and why he needed a break and a retreat to write and produce these 12 new songs.

M…

5 years since the release of her 8th studio album This Big Hush, Swedish born multi-instrumentalist and producer Sofia Härdig returns with Lighthouse Of Glass and we find Sofia in Stockholm on releas…

Will Stratton has been called a “self professed disciple of Nick Drake“. The American singer/songwriter has just released Points Of Origin, “a heartbreaking and expansive album of songs set in the fr…

Bonnie “Prince” Billy goes to Nashville! The Purple Bird is the new album and it just may be the highpoint of an already illustrious career.

Marty Duda spoke to Bonnie “Prince” Billy (aka Will Oldham)…