Opeth Bring Their Last Will And Testament Down Under: 13th Floor MusicTalk Interview
Opeth bring their unique brand of prog/metal to New Zealand and Australia next year when the Swedish quartet plays 7 shows featuring 2 hours plus sets including landmark masterpieces and songs from Opeth’s darkest and heaviest album in decades – the critically acclaimed concept album, The last WILL and TESTAMENT.
Search For Yeti – Three Cool Cats: 13th Floor MusicTalk Interview
Search For Yeti are a Wellington-based trio who have just released their debut album, Dark So Soon, and make music that finds inspiration from such disparate acts as Sigor Rós, Bright Eyes and Frank Turner.
Mt Eden Returns With Venom: 13th Floor MusicTalk Interview
Mt Eden is the electronic music man Jesse Cooper’s alt-ego. You probable know him for his Dubstep classic, Sierra Leone. Now, get to know him again with his new EP, Venom.
A Few Good Moments With Burton Cummings: 13th Floor MusicTalk
Burton Cummings, charismatic front man and songwriter, formerly of The Guess Who, has just released his first solo album in over a decade…17 songs he calls A Few Good Moments.
David Grubbs on Squanderers and Snakes: 13th MusicTalk Interview
Underground experimentalist David Grubbs (Squirrel Bait/Gastr del Sol) meets with The 13th Floor to talk about making music with The Squanderers and his own upcoming solo album.
Come Together: Behind The Scenes of Their Year-End Bash!
The Come Together crew is putting on a year-end bash featuring the 20 greatest rock songs of all time. Our 13th Floor cameras were on the scene to capture the all-star band rehearsing.
Julian Taylor Taking Pathways: 13th Floor MusicTalk Interview
Julian Taylor is a Canadian roots/folk artist who has just released his latest album, Pathways and then shared a stage with Eric Clapton, Van Morrison, Lucinda Williams, Mavis Staples and a host of others.
PRINS – Heaven or Hell or A New Era? 13th Floor MusicTalk Interview
PRINS has announced her Heaven or Hell Tour coming to New Zealand in April. The Kiwi electro-popper reveals to the 13th Floor what this “New PRINS Era” will look and sound like.
Sally Stockwell – Pulling Little Triggers: 13th Floor MusicTalk Interview
Sally Stockwell is a singer/songwriter/actor/theatre maker who is about to release her new album, Little Triggers, to the world.
Sam Fowles Is Going Deep After Dark: 13th Floor MusicTalk Interview
Sam Fowles is a Wellington-based musician who has just released his debut album titled After Dark…produced by The Black Seeds’ Barnaby Weir.
Dean Wareham on Uncollected Noise and The Cure: 13th Floor MusicTalk Interview
Dean & Britta are on their way to New Zealand, touring the South Island for the first time and playing Galaxie 500 tunes at The Others Way Festival.
Adam Hattaway Gets On His High Horse: 13th Floor MusicTalk Interview
Adam Hattaway releases his new album, High Horse, this Friday. Although it a solo record, his bandmates from The Haunters are all over it along with a few other friends and producer Marlon Williams.
Tom Irvine Reveals What’s Under The Wharf: 13th Floor MusicTalk Interview
The Tom Irvine Band releases their new album, Under The Wharf, tomorrow and Tom Irvine was at the 13th Floor studio yesterday to tell us how he and producer/guitarist Dylan Storey put the record together.
Dawes – Mister Los Angeles Speaks Up: 13th Floor MusicTalk Interview
Dawes has just released their new album, Oh Brother. with the band down down to the Goldsmith brothers, Taylor and Griffin.
Al Anderson of The Original Wailers Tells It Like It Was: 13th Floor MusicTalk Interview
Al Anderson first recorded with Bob Marley on his Natty Dread album in 1974, playing on classics like Lively Up Yourself, No Woman No Cry and Revolution and performing with Bob at Western Springs in 1979.
Sarah Blasko Just Needs To Conquer This Mountain: 13th Floor MusicTalk Interview
Australia’s Sarah Blasko returns with her 7th solo album titled I Just Need To Conquer This Mountain. And while it sounds like hard work, she says its “the most relaxed and free-wheeling album I’ve made”.
It’s Getting Late For The Fleshtones But They Are Still Rockin’: 13th Floor MusicTalk Interview
The Fleshtones release their new album, It’s Getting Late (…and More Songs About Werewolves) today and we have spoken to front man Peter Zaremba about Werewolves, The Cramps, Chicago Pizza and The Saints.
Willie Watson Clears The Slate: 13th Floor MusicTalk Interview
Willie Watson left Old Crow Medicine Show in 2011 and has released three solo albums since then. He latest, a self-titled affair, is the one closest to his heart as it is the first to feature his own songs.
Soul Asylum’s Dave Pirner Talks Slowly But Shirley: 13th Floor MusicTalk Interview
Soul Asylum have just released their 13th solo album titled Slowly But Shirley and here is front man Dave Pirner to tell us all about it.
Soccer Mommy – An Evergreen Sonic Return To Her Roots: 13th Floor MusicTalk Interview
Soccer Mommy, aka Sophie Allison, has just released her fourth album, Evergreen, one in which she calls a sonic return to her roots.