Swedish guitar shredder Yngwie Malmsteen posed and preened his way through a thunderous set of generic metal tunes…using a wall of Marshall amps as his backdrop. It was certainly an impressive sight…a wall of Marshall stacks lined up to cover most of the Powerstation stage and towering at about 8 feet. I felt bad for […]
Australian blues man Shaun Kirk kicked off his 2015 New Zealand tour with a show at Auckland’s Tuning Fork last night. A day earlier he stopped by The 13th Floor studio to play a couple of songs and talk to Marty Duda. Shaun played a rousing version of Two Hands On The Wheel and then […]
Auckland greeted the young Australian singer-songwriter with a cold, wet slap in the face. The weather may have kept patrons away from K’Road on this blustery Wednesday night, but those few who braved the elements were treated to a beautifully-nuanced performance. The evening marked the return of Josh Rennie-Hynes, who first toured New Zealand last […]
Australian blues man Shaun Kirk braved the wind and rain to make his way to The 13th Floor tonight to play a couple of tunes and chat with Marty Duda. We’ll have the entire session ready for you soon, but in the mean time, here’s Shaun singing a special version of Two Hands On The […]
Here’s Australian singer-songwriter Josh Rennie-Hynes at The 13th Floor on the eve of his latest New Zealand tour. Josh talks to Marty Duda about the writing of his new song, Land Of Clouds, inspired by his previous trip to NZ, then Josh and Reb Fountain perform the song exclusively for The 13th Floor. Both Josh […]
Tiny Ruins’ Hollie Fullbrook stopped in to The 13th Floor to talk about her upcoming tour with Bic Runga and to play a few songs. The songs she choice are particularly exciting…a never-recorded (by her) version of John Cale’s Andalucia, a beautiful WB Yeats poem set to music and a rarely-performed original composition from Brightly […]
If you saw Douglas Trendle sitting and having a pint at the King’s Arms, you’d likely write him off at the nutter down the pub you’d rather avoid, the UKIP voter with a pitbull under a corner table and a half-looked-at copy of The Sun by his beer tankard. But on stage, Trendle becomes Buster […]
If ever there was needed any evidence to prove the power of music as a real-life fountain of youth, you only needed to watch these two jazz giants, both in their mid-seventies. The more they played together, the faster the years seemed to disappear.
Tiny Ruins, aka Hollie Fullbrook stopped by The 13th Floor earlier this week to talk about her upcoming tour with Bic Runga. While she was there she performed a few songs for us. We’ll have the entire video session ready for you in a few days, but in the mean time, check out this exquisite […]
Che Smith, aka Rhymefest, is a Grammy and Oscar-winning hip-hop artist and songwriter. He is also the driving force behind the documentary In My Father’s House. The film finds Rhymefest on the Chicago’s South Side, where he and his family buy a house that turns out to be the childhood home of his father. Che […]