Princess Chelsea releases her second album, The Great Cybernetic Depression, tomorrow and she is touring New Zealand right now. Chelsea stopped by The 13th Floor to talk with Marty Duda about the new record and her latest music videos. Here are Princess Chelsea’s tour dates: QUEENSTOWN – Thursday 30th April – The Sherwood CHRISTCHURCH – Friday 1st May – […]
Trinity Roots is back with their new album, Citizen. The band, featuring Warren Maxwell, Rio Hemopo and Ben Lemi, paid a visit to The 13th Floor where they played two songs from the new album and spoke to Marty Duda. Save Save Save
Don McGlashan has just released his latest solo album, Lucky Stars, a record that provides further proof (if it is necessary) that he is one of New Zealand’s finest songwriters. Lucky Stars was produced by Don along with his former Muttonbirds band mate David Long and features Tom Rodwell on guitar. Don and Tom visited […]
If we’re being polite, we’ll call Demi Lovato’s first New Zealand concert “stripped down,” if only because it’s more charitable than “can’t be bothered,” which, based on last night’s performance, wouldn’t be entirely fair. In a show that finished well under ninety minutes after Lovato first walked onto the Vector Arena stage to a wall […]
It was a gathering of the faithful on this Sunday night in Auckland…the punk rock faithful who turned out to see California’s self-proclaimed bubble gum punk rockers The Dickies at The Kings Arms. In the grand scheme of things, The Dickies, who formed in 1977, haven’t really made a huge impression on the history of […]
Kiwi country singer Jody Direen has just released her new album, Breaks Out, recorded in Nashville…of course. Jody and her band stopped by The 13th Floor to perform a few tunes from the new disc and to have a chat with Marty Duda. We’ll have the complete session edited and posted soon, but in the […]
Former Kiss axeman Ace Frehley offered up a set of somewhat generic, mildly entertaining, but ultimately unlistenable hard rock to The Studio in Auckland. To be fair, it wasn’t necessarily Ace’s fault that his music was unlistenable… that charge should be levelled directly at the sound man. Don’t get me wrong, I love a loud […]
Despite only releasing one album, albeit one with five singles, 22-year-old Sam Smith played the first of two shows at Auckland’s Vector Arena. Unfortunately the need to accommodate so many fans here trumped his musical needs resulting in his intimate, soulful songs being lost in the big room. But I was possibly the only one […]
Mel Parsons has just released her third album, Drylands. Currently Mel is touring New Zealand playing 23 dates over the course of the next month. Mel recorded a video session at The 13th Floor on the eve of her nationwide tour, performing three songs from the new album, and chatting with Marty Duda Save
Anyone who has spent any amount of time taking in the parade of artists that have played at the Tuning Fork over the past year or so might easily think that literally everyone and his brother who was born and raised in the American South can sing, write songs and pick a guitar. The latest […]