13th Floor MusicTalk

Wellington-based "crooked alt-rockers" Menzies hit the road after the release of their debut album, Holding My Cold Hand, Even Though Yours Is Warm!
The 13th Floor's Marty Duda spoke to main Menzie Chris Brown about one of this year's quirkiest records and how it will translate to the stage.

Gin Wigmore has just released Beautiful Mess. Its the first new album from the Kiwi singer-songwriter in eight years and we think you'll find it was worth waiting for.
The 13th Floor's Marty Duda spoke to Gin on release day about her time living in the USA and why she's back in New Zealand making music once again.

Midge Ure is due to tour New Zealand…finally, after having to postpone his Catalogue: The Hits Tour, originally scheduled for 2025.
The 13th Floor’s Marty Duda found Midge at his “little studio in Portugal” and spoke to the former Ultravox and Visage front man about his first performance in New Zealand in front of a 1982 Sweetwaters Festival crowd and how he creates a setlist that keeps fans from all his various musical endeavours happy

The Sixteenth is the musical project of Wellington-based composer and producer Richard Walley and the new album is titled Winters In The World.
The 13th Floor's Marty Duda spoke to Richard just ahead of release day to find out how and why this album takes as its subject the Anglo-Saxon year — a calendar in which the pre-Christian seasonal cycle and the Christian liturgical year coexisted, while making orchestral and electronic music that is 50% ambient and 50% progressive house.

Auckland singer/songwriter Macey has just released his second album titled Once.
The 13th Floor’s Marty Duda spoke to Macey about how his time in London inspired the songs that became Once.