Ian Hunter, former Mott The Hoople front man, has just released a new album titled Defiance Part2: Fiction. It is a star-studded affair featuring members of Queen, Def Leppard, Cheap Trick, Stone Temple Pilots, Pearl Jam, The Black Crowes and friends like Johnny Depp, Lucinda Williams, Billy Bob Thornton and final contributions from Jeff Beck […]
Simon Sean Coffey has won the David Bowie Box Set, Clareville Grove Demos. This gorgeous box-set with three 7″ vinyl singles of Bowie’s 1969 demos, includes Space Oddity. Congratulations Simon! We asked people to tell us their favourite Bowie personae. The results: Ziggy Stardust The Thin White Duke Aladdin Sane Goblin King Halloween Jack Himself […]
#WIN! Just when we thought we couldn’t get much cooler, here’s a David Bowie Box Set to knock every collector’s socks into next week! It’s the Clareville Grove Demos. A gorgeous box-set with three 7″ vinyl singles of Bowie’s 1969 demos, including Space Oddity. To enter – go to our Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/13thfloor.co.nz. Then 1) […]
This collection of six songs recorded as demos in early 1969 finds the young David Bowie still searching for a musical voice that will connect with an audience. That audience was just a few months away.
David Bowie is no longer with us, but many of the incredible musicians who played with him are.
To mark 50 years since David Bowie’s Space Oddity was unleashed on the world, The Thin White Duke’s band today announces two New Zealand dates for its “A BOWIE CELEBRATION: THE DAVID BOWIE ALUMNI TOUR”.
This past Saturday marked the 59th anniversary of “the day the music died.” It was on February 3rd, 1959 that Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and JP Richardson (The Big Bopper) died when their small plane crashed near Mason City, Iowa. Now, touring musicians face a different, just as fatal, reality.
On what would have been David Bowie’s 70th birthday, the video for Bowie’s No Plan was posted. Directed by Tom Hingston, the video is for one of the last three songs Bowie recorded. Those three songs, No Plan, Killing A Little Time and When I Met You (all from the Lazarus soundtrack) along with the […]
This just in from Warner Bros Records: February 10th 2017 sees the release of the latest special limited DAVID BOWIE 7″ picture disc, the 40th-anniversary edition of SOUND AND VISION.
Grammy Award-winning mixer and producer “Bassy” Bob Brockmann was in Auckland recently and stopped by The 13th Floor for an interview with Marty Duda. Mr Brockmann is known for his work with the likes of The Fugees, Notorious BIG, Christina Aguilera, Mary J Blige and Faith Hill. As it turns out, Bassy Bob, who is […]