James Bishop Is Bodybound on the Pacific Crest Trail: 13th Floor MusicTalk Interview
James Bishop has spent the past five years making his debut album, Bodybound, a record that was made completely by found sounds recorded on his phone.
Buffalo Tom: Nobody Cares About Our New Record: 13th Floor MusicTalk Interview
Buffalo Tom have just released their 10th studio album, titled Jump Rope. Here is bass player Chris Colburn to tell us why, even tough “nobody cares about our new record” they do!
Redd Kross Are Back With Double The Fun: 13th Floor MusicTalk Interview
Redd Kross has been rocking audiences for over 40 years now. Brothers Jeff and Steve McDonald are keeping the flame alight with their new, self-titled double album…and there’s a film and a memoir on the way as well.
Rory Block Takes Us To Positively 4th Street: 13th Floor MusicTalk Interview
Rory Block is an American blues guitarist and singer who has been making records since the late 1970s. Her latest is a tribute to another up-and-coming songwriter who used to hang out in her dad’s shop in NYC…a guy who called himself Bob Dylan.
Aaron Frazer Goes Into The Blue: 13th Floor MusicTalk Interview
Aaron Frazer has just released his second solo album, titled Into The Blue and here he is to tell us how he mixes classic Philly soul with hip hop beats to come up with his own sound.
Sean Cunningham and Whatever That Is: 13th Floor MusicTalk Interview
Today Sean Cunningham releases 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 they say, that was then and this is now.
The Decemberists Return With their Longest and Finest Record To Date: 13th Floor Interview
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 album could be their last.
Luna Shadows On Bathwater and Beyond: 13th Floor Interview
Luna Shadows is a US/NZ artist based (mostly) in LA, at least that’s where we found her when we tracked her down to talk about her new album, titled, bathwater.
Jim White of Dirty Three Tells Us How Love Changes Everything: 13th Floor Interview
The Dirty Three have just released Love Changes Everything…at least physically…the digital version is out this Friday. 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.
George Ducas Is A Long Way From Home: 13th Floor Interview
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 Home.
Fastball Takes Us To The Sonic Ranch: 13th Floor Interview
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 in.
Jenny Don’t and The Spurs Are Broken Hearted Blue: Interview
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.
Madeline Hawthorne Tells Tales From Late Nights and Long Drives: 13th Floor Interview
Madeline Hawthorne has just released, what she calls, “the perfect road trip record”. It’s called Tales From Late Nights and Long Drives.
The Hollywood Stars Are Still Starstruck: 13th Floor Interview
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 get us up to speed.
Georgia Lines And The Rose Of Jericho: 13th Floor Interview
Georgia Lines has just released her debut album, The Rose Of Jericho and its a beauty.
John Grant And The Art Of The Lie: 13th Floor Interview
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 country and his own family.
Jesse Dayton and The Hard Way Blues: 13th Floor Interview
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.
Logan Lynn Is Not Just Taking Up Space: 13th Floor Interview
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 just ben released along with an accompanying film.
Bonny Light Horseman See You Free: 13th Floor Interview
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.
Mel Parsons on Sabotage: 13th Floor Interview
Mel Parsons is just about to release her new album, titled Sabotage and we thought we’d take the opportunity to talk to Mel about how it came to be.