New Music Friday Recommendations: Jan. 14, 2022
New Music Friday on the 13th Floor helps you make educated and emotional decisions about what happening each Friday when the new music hits the stores. Here’s what we like today!
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Jamestown Revival – Young Man: Album Review
Jamestown Revival carry the traditions of Americana as the cultural crusade of their time and present Young Man as both a meditative album and an uplifting one. These are hard times, but there are always good times despite the mood and the bad moon rising.
The Beths – Whammy Bar January 12, 2022
The Beths rock in the new year with an extended engagement at Auckland’s Whammy Bar and The 13th Floor was in attendance!
Tall Folk – Getting Wiser By Singing Together: Interview
Tall Folk are Lara Robertson and Jack Ringhand…Jack is from Wisconsin and Lara is from Dunedin. The newly-married Jack has moved to New Zealand and now he and Lara are Tall Folk (although they are NOT married).
Grace Cummings – Storm Queen Speaks! (Interview)
Grace Cummings is a Melbourne-based artist/actor with a big voice and plenty to say on her upcoming album Storm Queen.
Lucinda Williams – Alejandro Escovedo – Wilco Inducted to Austin City Limits Hall of Fame WATCH!!!
Lucinda Williams – Alejandro Escovedo – Wilco Inducted to Austin City Limits Hall of Fame. October 28, 2021 was a star studded night in Austin, Texas as Lucinda Williams, Alejandro Escovedo and Wilco were inducted into the Austin City Limits Hall Of Fame.
13th Floor Album Preview: Tall Folk – Wiser
Tall Folk are self-described as a pair with “long limbs and swirling harmonies,” and are comprised of Jack Ringhand, whose roots are in the Midwest of the US and Lara Robertson who hails from Dunedin. What this collection Wiser (recorded by Tom Bell of Port Chalmers Recording Service) offers is a refreshing blend of harmony-based […]
Lady Bonestripper – Awaken The Snake Hips: EP Review
Lady Bonestripper serves up an EP of soothing balm to take out a troubled year. Behind that warmth is some fire and burning passions.
No Girl – Whelmed (Album Review)
No Girl is an Indie-Pop quartet from Auckland who threaten to get under your skin and quietly enchant you with their debut album. Consider yourself Whelmed.
Single Girl, Married Girl – Three Generations of Leaving
Single Girl, Married Girl is a Los Angeles country band who have high ambitions by planting themselves in name at least at the Big Bang moment, when Americana came into creation.