13th Floor MusicTalk

Gerry Buckley, a founding member of 70's hitmakers America, is out on his own with a new album called Merciful.

The 13th Floor's Marty Duda spoke to Gerry who was at home in Sydney, where he splits his time with Venice, California. Merciful features 11 new songs, a couple of choice covers and a guest appearance by Graham Nash. Here is Gerry to tell us how it all came together.

Improvement Movement is a 4-piece “acoustic grunge” band based in Atlanta, Georgia that has just released its third studio album, Your Perfect Real Life.

The 13th Floor’s Marty Duda found all four bandmembers stuffed in a van in the middle of Vermont, making their way to Woodstock for a release-day show. Watch and listen as Tony, Clark, Marshall and Zach recount tales of touring with Unknown Mortal Orchestra and Puddles The Clown in their journey to make an album they call “prismatic, angular, jumpy, and eccentric“.

LA-based singer/songwriter Chris Pierce has just released his 9th studio album, Songs For The Heavy Hearted, a collection of songs he says are, "about our shared humanity".

The 13th Floor's Marty Duda spoke to Chris on the eve of release day to find out more about these songs and about working with Steve Earle, Allison Russell and Neil Young producer Niko Bo

Former Black Flag bassist Kira Roessler has just released her second solo album titled Enigma.

The 13th Floor's Marty Duda spoke to the solo artist and award-winning sound editor....Kira was on the team that won an Oscar for 2015's Mad Max: Fury Road. We found her at Warner Brothers Studios in Burbank, California where she paused from her work on a K-Pop film to talk about making Enigma with her brother Paul Roessler, of The Screamers, and how he helped her make the transition from prog to punk that led her to becoming a member of Black Flag.

Squeeze is coming to New Zealand! The iconic British band bring their Tried, Tested and Trixies Tour to Auckland and Wellington next April.

The 13th Floor’s Marty Duda spoke to founding member/singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Glenn Tilbrook about what we can expect when the band lands in New Zealand….how Trixie came to be and and how he saw David Bowie at Glastonbury in 1971!

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.