This is the second in our series on upcoming artists performing at WOMAD 2017. This time, it’s BAYNK, aka Jock Nowell-Usticke, the Kiwi university student who chucked up a song up on SoundCloud back in early 2015 while travelling around Europe and scored himself an appearance at a major local music festival (St Jerome’s Laneway), […]
It has taken 20 years for Mick Harvey, long-time collaborator with Nick Cave, the Bad Seeds, PJ Harvey and others, to ‘complete’ his four album Serge Gainsbourg translation project.
The 13th Floor’s Tim Gruar swaps texts with East London-based punk band The Restarts who are due to tour New Zealand in February… Hackney punks The Restarts are coming to our shores. Formed in 1995, they are a tight three piece, multi-genre punk outfit based in East London! They play thrashy, anarcho-power chord punk laced […]
All summer I’ve been tuned into Simon Morris and Phil O’Brien’s Matinee Idle, RNZ’s wonderfully eclectic music show featuring the quirky, personal over indulgences of two middle aged radio DJs who never had the courage to throw away their random collection of CDs and vinyl from the 1950’s – 1980’s. It’s a challenging, cringe-worthy but […]
There’s no denying that this album is a difficult listen. Like all their work, defining exactly which planet they were on when they made this is as much a challenge as a truth. Fact or fiction it’s clear though that The Flaming Lips are not returning to any of their previous celestial destinations any time […]
Over the next couple of months 13th Floor will be running a series of articles and interviews about key artists and bands coming to WOMAD 2017 (New Plymouth, March 17-19). The Taranaki’s based world music festival is now in its 11th year, a 3-day celebration of musical and cultural diversity on every level. As always, […]
Just when I thought I knew about every band to find the courage to lay down on the tracks during the 1970s yet another one resurfaces – complete with an overstocked pedigree of albums spanning decades of hard work and ferocious output. Half Japanese were born out of the Fair brother’s lo-fi bedroom recordings of […]