The 13th Floor’s Marty Duda spoke to Matthew Sweet about making Catspaw and a host of other topics including favourite guitarists, The Beatles, Peter Jackson and…American politics ..read more

Multiple GRAMMY Award-winning American Legends The Flaming Lips release their 21st studio album, AMERICAN HEAD via Warner Records. The album is comprised of thirteen new cinematic tracks, produced by longtime collaborator Dave Fridmann and The Lips. Among them, 'God and the Policeman' featuring backing vocals from country superstar Kasey Musgraves. As previewed on the recently released 'Flowers Of Neptune 6,' AMERICAN HEAD takes on a welcome temporal shift that occupies a similar space to that of THE SOFT BULLETIN or YOSHIMI BATTLES THE PINK ROBOTS and just m ..read more

Tanya Blount Trotter and Michael Trotter Jr. – the husband-and-wife musical duo known as The War And Treaty – have released “Hearts Town,” the title track from their eagerly-anticipated new album, out September 25. “Hearts Town,” a sprawling and symphonic paean to the healing power of love, was largely inspired by the early days of the couple’s relationship. Michael Trotter explains, “We often come into relationships with our guards up because we have experienced pain from love. And too often when we enter our next relationship, we expect that pain again. But not in this love that I have found ..read more

British band IDLES has been causing a stir ever since the release of their debut album, Brutalism in 2017. The follow-up, 2018's Joy As The Art Of Resistance earned the band a Mercury Prize nomination. Now, with their third album, Ultra Mono about to be released, guitarist Mark Bowen talks to The 13th Floor's Marty Duda about what this outspoken band has to say in these uncertain times.  ..read more