Henry Oliver is the Spinoff's music editor and an aspiring liner note writer. Email him on henry@thespinoff.co.nz
Today, the National Business Review, New Zealand's most prestigious and weirdly-run business publication, published its annual Rich List. Here are our biggest takeaways.
With its fascinating regional diversity, New Zealand’s most popular red has evolved into a wine that’s making the world sit up and take notice.
On longevity, listening to your old work and the band's four-date tour with the NZSO to celebrate their 20th anniversary.
Why major contractors keep going bust just as the construction industry is supposed to be ramping up.
Henry Oliver and Henry Oliver debate the efficacy of Eat My Lunch’s social enterprise model.
Jon Toogood, frontman of evergreen rockers Shihad, about the new record of his collaborative project The Adults.
Eddie Johnston talks living and working in LA and his first new music in two years.
Once Auckland's retail centre, K' Road is on its way back to being a thriving retail centre where people want to live. Henry Oliver went to look at one new addition to K' Road's continual evolution.
Henry Oliver explores the corridors and changes happening at Auckland Museum, and what they say about Tāmaki Makaurau.
The speedway is leaving Western Springs. We explain where it's going and what's going to take its place.
Pop artist Matthew Young on his new EP and re-evaluating success after mental illness.
For The Spinoff Music, the big question of the day isn't what dress Meghan Markle is going to wear, but what song she'll be dancing to with Harry. Thanks to Spotify, here's our best guess.
What exactly was the pamphlet Massey High School were using in its health class? And what were the kids doing with it?
Henry Oliver talks to Wellington artist and producer Estère about technology, attention and her new album My Design, On Others' Lives.
This week, Fijian-New Zealand artist Luke Willis Thompson was short-listed for the Turner Prize, Britain's most prestigious contemporary art award. Don't know what that means? We're here to help.
Henry Oliver talks to Kimbra, the Hamilton-raised, New York-based art-pop star, about her new album, Primal Heart.
Last week, Auckland-based producer and musician October released her debut album, Ultra Red. She tells Henry Oliver about how, two months before the album's intended release, she took the recordings back and remade it by herself.
Henry Oliver talks to E^ST, a young Australian pop artist whose two recent singles are turning hears around the world.
Henry Oliver talks to JessB about her first EP and how her professional netball career is helping her in the music industry.
In the days before its last hurrah, Henry Oliver talked to The Golden Dawn's Matthew Crawley and Nick Harrison about the life and death of the weirdest bar on Ponsonby Road.
Henry Oliver sits down with Freddie Highmore to talk about his TV journey from the cellars of Bates Motel to the corridors of The Good Doctor.
Last night, during Cyclone Hola, King Krule played Silo Park as part of the Auckland Arts Festival. Henry Oliver was there in all the wet weather gear he could find.
Henry Oliver talks to Astro Children's Millie Lovelock about the band's new single and Dunedin's indie music generational rift.
Henry Oliver talks to Beck about the '90s, guitars, Bruno Mars, and his new album Colors.
Welcome to the Cheat Sheet, a clickable, shareable, bite-sized FAQ on the news of the moment. Today, Henry Oliver answers your questions about Donald Glover's mysterious tour announcement.
Today, Marlon Williams releases the first great New Zealand album of 2018. He talks to Henry Oliver about the heartbreak and honesty that went into making it.
