Originally featured at http://www.13thfloor.co.nz/?p=73352 When I was a kid, variety shows were all the rage on the telly. It seemed that TVNZ had unlimited green to waste on The Billy T Show, Howard Morrison specials and endless features with Prince Tui Teka and Ray Wolf. I hated them, mainly because most
The 13th Floor’s Tim Gruar talks to Paddy Free of Pitch Black about their new album, Filtered Senses: Celebrating 20 years in the music business, Pitch Black, have been labelled the ‘godfathers of Kiwi electronica’. This month, nine year’s after their last release they finally drop their fifth studio album,
First published on 13thfloor.co.nz There’s a couple of well-read publications that feature on the shelves of my local supermarket sporting CDs of recently released material and endless rehashes of classic rock era bands. My daughter calls those mags ‘Dad Rock”. “How many articles about The Smiths, The Doors and Pink
First printed in 13thfloor.co.nz The first time I heard the title track, Hit Reset, I had to check the box. I thought I’d stumbled across an unpublished collection by Japan’s Shonen Knife, perhaps recording with Brazil’s CSS under the direction of Julian Hatfield or Kim Deal. I wasn’t too far
First Published on http://www.13thfloor.co.nz A Traveller’s Tale, Trip To The Moon’s sixth studio album, is the essence of over 3 year’s solid work claims Trevor Reekie. Reekie along with multi-instrumentalist Tom Ludvigson has been recording their own unique version of trip-hop jazz and fusion since before the turn of the
