Joshua Hedley Goes Neon Blue: New Song of The Day
Joshua Hedley has just been signed to New West Records and his new song, Neon Blue, readies us for his first album for the label.
The Temptations – Temptations 60: Album Review
The Temptations are the foundation group from which Soul music was defined. Of course, there are others, but for laying down the blueprint and then to be at the forefront of innovation over a long haul, they are the Emperors of Soul.
Leo Sayer Puts The Beat Back In The Beatles: Interview
Leo Sayer has just released Northern Songs: Leo Sayer Sings The Beatles, a collection of unique, surprising, possibly controversial, re-imaginings of Beatle classics.
Erin Cole-Baker – I Didn’t Want To Take Your Things
Erin Cole-Baker reaches out to us from Oregon to tell us about her new song, I Didn’t Want To Take Your Things.
Mason Jennings Shows Us His Real Heart: Interview
Mason Jennings celebrated the release of his new album, Real Heart, by talking to The 13th Floor just as the record was being released worldwide.
Forenzics – Shades And Echoes (Warner Bros)
Forenzics is Tim Finn and Eddie Rayner who, along with a few friends, have sieved through classic Split Enz tunes and created 14 new tracks that are incredibly fresh and vibrant sounding.
Sophie-Maude Gets Comfortable: New Song Of The Day
Sophie-Maude has just released Comfortable and we present it to you as our New Song Of The Day.
Belfast – Dir: Kenneth Branagh
Belfast is a semi-autobiographical comedy/drama set in 1969 Northern Ireland where a family struggles to survive in the city they love. Starring: Jamie Dornan, Judi Dench, Caitriona Balfe, Jude Hill
The Black Seeds – Bring The Sun: New Song Of The Day
The Black Seeds Bring The Sun on this fine February morning.
Tim Finn Talking Forenzics with The 13th Floor
Forenzics is a new band made up of old friends. Tim Finn has teamed up with his old Split Enz-mate Eddie Rayner to create Shades And Echoes.
The Neptune Power Federation – Emmaline: New Song Of The Day
The Neptune Power Federation rocks up with Emmaline. Check out those vocals from Screaming Loz Sutch!
Greensky Bluegrass – Stress Dreams: Album Review
Greensky Bluegrass are Bluegrass practitioners in a parallel world from which they seem to have become a Grateful Dead hybrid. The core trio, Paul Hoffman mandolin, Dave Bruzza guitar and Michael Bont banjo came together in Kalamazoo, Michigan in 2000. Essentially an American string band, they honed their craft through countless open mike sessions. At […]
Bloc Party – The Girls Are Fighting: New Song Of The Day
Bloc Party brings us The Girls Are Fighting in anticipation of their up coming album, Alpha Games.
South For Winter – From Nashville To Christchurch: Interview
South For Winter are Nick and Dani Stone + Alex Stradal. Nick and Dani are in Christchurch at the moment while Alex is back in Nashville watching the dog.
Julia Deans & Jazmine Mary – Whammy Bar January 29, 2022
Julia Deans keeps live music alive in Auckland after the cancellation of The Others Way Festival with an intimate solo show at Whammy Bar.
Alice Glass – Love Is Violence: New Song Of The Day
Alice Glass gets gory….and we mean gory! Check out the video for new song Love Is Violence if you can stomach it.
Eels – Extreme Witchcraft (EWorks/PIAS): Album Review
Eels practice Extreme Witchcraft on this, their 14th studio album. For this one Mr. E is back working with his Souljacker co-producer John Parish.
Lady Wray – Piece Of Me: 13th Floor Interview
Lady Wray is back with Piece Of Me, a sizzling blend of hip hop, r&b and soul cooked up in New York and served up in Altanta.
Gramsci – Into The Hinterland, 13th Floor’s Song of the Day
Gramsci has dropped their new single Into The Hinterland in anticipation of the forthcoming new album The Hinterlands set to release on February 11.
North Mississippi Allstars – Set Sail: Album Review
North Mississippi Allstars – Set Sail This album appealed to me from the get-go having lived in the Mississippi hill country when I was 17. It’s a rolling landscape of pine trees, occasional cotton fields, muddy slow-moving rivers and tangles of kudzu vines. And a fraught history. The North Mississippi Allstars invoke this country in […]