Pod On The Couch

The Spinoff and Spark proudly present Pod On The Couch, a weekly podcast exploring music and the people that make it. This episode: troubadour James Milne and his new ready-for-action Christmas song.

Just in time for the holidays comes Jingling Christmas Eve, a new song created with Jame's childhood friend Norman Angel. Henry Oliver and James talk about the single and the true meaning of Christmas songs.

The Spinoff and Spark proudly present Pod On The Couch, a weekly podcast exploring music and the people that make it. This episode: Kate Robertson and Matthew McAuley join host Henry Oliver to talk about their favourite music of the year 2016.

Spinoff Music editor Henry Oliver talks to contributing critics Kate Robertson and Matthew McAuley about the best music of 2016 from here and elsewhere.

The Spinoff and Spark proudly present Pod On The Couch, a weekly podcast exploring music and the people that make it. This episode: Kate Robertson and Duncan Greive join host Henry Oliver to talk about music business and culture in the year 2016.

Spinoff Music editor Henry Oliver talks to contributing critic Kate Robertson and The Spinoff's editor and publisher Duncan Greive about some of the 'big picture' issues in music for 2016.

Read the essay Duncan mentions, 'The Rap Against Rockism', here (please do). And listen to some of the music we talked about here:

Spinoff Music editor Henry Oliver talks to (among other things) Rip It Up co-founder Murray Cammick about Ray Columbus, an icon of New Zealand pop music who died this week.

The Spinoff and Spark proudly present Pod On The Couch, a weekly podcast exploring music and the people that make it. This episode: Kate Robertson and Matthew McAuley join host Henry Oliver to talk about this month's new releases.

Music discussed: Bic Runga, Kevin Abstract, Kaylee Bell, John Legend, Chance The Rapper, Brooke Fraser, LEISURE, GoldLink, The Weeknd, Childish Gambino.

Spinoff Music editor Henry Oliver, Spinoff editor and publisher Duncan Greive, Mana magazine editor Leonie Hayden, and Recorded Music NZ CEO Damien Vaughan chat about the Aaradhna, race, 'urban' music and the New Zealand Music Awards.

Spinoff Music editor Henry Oliver, Spinoff editor and publisher Duncan Greive and Mana magazine editor Leonie Hayden chat about the struggles of music festivals in the aftermath of this week's news that the second Auckland City Limits has been postponed until 2018.

Stepping in for Spinoff Music editor Henry Oliver, Spinoff editor and publisher Duncan Greive and Mana Magazine editor Leonie Hayden have just a good old chin-wag with musican and bloody full on living legend  Tigilau Ness and music writer Graham Reid. They're both involved in the just released, but potentially long over due, tribute album to Bob Marley called Stir It Up, Aotearoa's Tribute To Bob Marley. Other contributing artists include: Tiki Taane, Trinity Roots, Katchafire, House Of Shem and Aaradhna.

The foursome examine Bob Marley's importance to our music industry, Marley's historic and influential 1979 Western Springs concert and the twist and turns reggae in Aotearoa has taken over the decades since.