blished on 13thfloor.co.nz On her 3rd studio effort Corinne Bailey Rae goes all out recruiting Nu-soul and jazz artists Esperanza Spalding, Moses Sumney and flavour of the month R&B group KING to make an expansive, lush album with erratic mood-swings and a concentration of phat, spacious grooves. It’s all
Originally published on http://www.13thfloor.co.nz American Japanese singer-songwriter-musician Mitski Miyawaki is all about happiness on her newest album, Puberty 2. As she says in her publicity blurb: “Happiness is up, sadness is down, but one’s almost more destructive than the other. When you realize you can’t have one without the other, it’s possible
It’s as if they never stopped – like 4 years has passed like a flash since their comeback album Not Your Kind of People. Irish dark femme Shirley Manson, drummer Butch Vig, bassist and guitarist Duke Erickson and guitarist Steve Marker pick it up where they left off setting up
I heard that America is considering replacing one of their White Male Presidents with a suitably famous female figure on one of their bank notes. The most likely candidate, if it does ever happen, would be Rosa Parks. But I’d suggest a second candidate: Mavis Staples. By now most people
A few years ago I got to meet Charles Bradley, as part of the promotion of his appearance at the International Arts Festival in Wellington. We talked a lot about his backstory and how James Brown saved him. And about he found escapism in the character of the Godfather of
