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  • Kira Roessler Is An Enigma Wrapped In Punk History
    Aug 14 2026

    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.

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    18 min
  • Squeeze’s Glenn Tilbrook Is Still Cool For Cats
    Aug 9 2026

    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!

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    17 min
  • Menzies - From Magic To Music
    Jul 23 2026

    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.

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    15 min
  • Gin Wigmore Sorts Out Her Beautiful Mess
    Jul 17 2026

    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.

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    13 min
  • Midge Ure – A Year Late But An Album Richer
    Jul 16 2026

    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

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    17 min
  • The Sixteenth Gets Medieval for Matariki
    Jul 11 2026

    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.

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    25 min
  • Macey – Once Again
    Jul 5 2026

    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.

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    11 min
  • Low Cut Connie On Livin In The USA
    Jul 3 2026

    We celebrate US Independence Day (#250 if you’re counting) with this conversation with Low Cut Connie about his new album, Livin In The USA.

    The 13th Floor’s Marty Duda spoke to Connie (aka Adam Weiner) just as release day and Independence Day was upon him. For Connie, Livin In The USA has changed him from being the frontman of a “fun, weird, goofy rock & roll band” into a spokesman for diversity and inclusion.

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    17 min