Bill Charlap – Keeping It Spontaneous with Dee Dee Bridgewater: 13th Floor MusicTalk Interview
Dee Dee Bridgewater and Bill Charlap have teamed up to create Elemental…a spontaneous celebration of the great American composers such as Cole Porter, George Gershwin and Duke Ellington.
Elijah Johnston – Stupid Soul and Simplified Songwriting: 13th Floor MusicTalk Interview
Elijah Johnston has just released his new album, Stupid Soul. Now based in Atlanta, Elijah returned to Athens to record these 12 tracks of sundrenched power pop.
Grayson Hugh Adds Some Twang To His Blue-Eyed Soul: 13th Floor MusicTalk Interview
Grayson Hugh has released Save Your Love For Me…the new album was five years in the making, but, as you’ll hear, it was well worth the wait.
The Dead Daisies Are Lookin’ For Trouble: 13th Floor MusicTalk Interview
Blues-infused hard rockers, The Dead Daises pay tribute to greats like Robert Johnson and John Lee Hooker with a new collection of old standards called Lookin’ For Trouble that will rock your socks off.
Heavenly Returns To Portland Town: 13th Floor MusicTalk Interview
Heavenly were, and are again, an indiepop band from England who have just released their first new single in 29 years.
Love Party With a Recovering Lawyer: 13th Floor MusicTalk Interview
Love Party is Kate Yesberg and Dayle Jellyman. Married for 10 years, they’ve only just formed a band and released their debut album, Wow!, today.
David Lowery on Fathers, Sons and Brothers: 13th Floor MusicTalk
David Lowery is the chief songwriter and frontman for both Camper Van Beethoven and Cracker, his new ‘musical autobiography’ is a 3-LP set titled Fathers, Sons and Brothers.
Vicki Peterson and John Cowsill and Long After The Fire: 13th Floor MusicTalk Interview
What do you get when you mix a Bangle and a Cowsill? Listen to Vicki Peterson and John Cowsill’s new album and you’ll find it’s a little bit country and a little bit rock & roll.
Greta O’Leary Crosses The River Dark: 13th Floor MusicTalk Interview
Auckland-based alt.folk singer/songwriter Greta O’Leary talks to us about her long-awaited debut album, River Dark and why she calls it “spook folk”.
Valerie June On Owls, Omens, Oracles and Dreads: 13th Floor MusicTalk Interview
West Tennessee native Valerie June has released her sixth studio album. Owls, Omens and Oracles is produced by M. Ward and is “a radical statement to break skepticism, surveillance, and doom scrolling – to let yourself celebrate your aliveness.”
The Minus 5 On Mott, Marianne and Why The Bird Is The Word: 13th Floor MusicTalk Interview
The Minus 5, formed in 1993 by Scott McCaughey (Young Fresh Fellows) and Peter Buck (R.E.M.) are about to release Oar On, Penelope!, their first album in five years.
Powder Chutes Are On The Move: 13th Floor MusicTalk Interview
Wanaka rockers Powder Chutes are celebrating the release of their self-titled debut album with a nation-wide tour, which comes to Auckland’s Whammy Bar this coming Thursday.
Jenny Mitchell – Building The Perfect Forest House: 13th Floor MusicTalk Interview
Kiwi Country singer Jenny Mitchell has just released her fourth album, Forest House…recorded in a house in Pirinoa (Wairarapa), it explores all of the experiences that can happen within four walls; the welcoming, heartbreaking, healing and everything in between.
Petit Choux Is Wellington’s French Connection: 13th Floor MusicTalk
Petit Choux is French-born, Wellington-based singer-songwriter Sophie Sabri. The musical artist and therapist has just released her debut EP, titled, Coule.
Translator Front Man Steve Barton Goes Beyond Today: 13th Floor MusicTalk Interview
Translator was (and occasionally still is) a band based in San Francisco who put out 4 albums in the early 80s before calling it quits in 1986 with a 3-hour blow-out concert.
Voom’s Buzz Moller Thinks Something Good Is Happening: 13th Floor MusicTalk Interview
Voom has just released a new album on Flying Nun…Something Good Is Happening is the band’s first in almost 20 years and third in as many decades.
Robin Trower Invites You To Come And Find Me: 13th Floor Interview
Robin Trower, fresh from celebrating his 80th birthday, is about to release a new album titled Come And Find Me.
Darren Pickering – Small Worlds and Cinematic Jazz: 13th Floor MusicTalk Interview
Jazz pianist, composer, educator, modular synthesist and session musician Darren Pickering and his Small Worlds have just release a new album, Three, on Rattle Records.
Mclusky Is Still Here And So Are We: 13th Floor MusicTalk Interview
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.
Justin Devereux Talks Nickels & Dimes: 13thfloor MusicTalk Interview
Justin Devereux is an ex-pat Kiwi, based in L.A. who has just released his debut album, Nickels&Dimes.