Henry Oliver is the Spinoff's music editor and an aspiring liner note writer. Email him on henry@thespinoff.co.nz
The designers have to make a two-piece look out of scrapped technology. Henry Oliver ranks the results.
It's the second episode of Project Runway New Zealand, in which the designers have to make a streetwear look inspired by ... Sylvia Park?
Anika Moa on humour, vulnerability, family and her new album.
Silver Scroll winner Marlon Williams tells Henry Oliver why 'Nobody Gets What They Want Anymore' is the best song he's ever written.
Welcome to the very first episode of Project Runway New Zealand, in which the designers had to make a cocktail dress inspired by a soft drink so inspiring nearly everyone used white.
1997 was a simpler time – British anarchists topped the charts and you could buy collections of the days' hits on little plastic discs.
Put them together and malt, water, hops and yeast creates something beautiful. Henry Oliver looks inside his beer, and discovers it's really quite simple.
Devin Abrams, who makes music as Pacific Heights, talks about his dreamy new album and making a huge pop hit with Drax Project.
How Airbnb the future of travel and the places we call home.
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.
