Look, Better Late Than Never: The Music Has Launched Its Very Own Podcast

We can all agree that good things take time, right? Rome wasn't built in a day, Powderfinger only got really good on their third album, and cold-press coffee takes friggin' hours to brew.

All of which is a really thinly veiled way to say: hey, it took us a while, but look out, Ma, The Music has a podcast, and you're damn right it's called The Music Podcast, because it was hard enough getting this thing off the ground, much less thinking of a snappy name for it.

Hosted by theMusic.com.au digital editor Neil Griffiths and NIDA graduate David Burrowes (Master of Fine Arts — Directing), the podcast will canvass topics from music and film to pop culture and general interest. The weekly show, being recorded at Studios 301 in Sydney, draws on the pair's joint history in community radio, having spent two years together at the city's Alive 90.5.

Over their time at the station, they interviewed a breadth of guests who you'd all probably really like, such as Steve Carell, Will Ferrell, R.L. Stine, Lil Jon, Yellowcard, All Time Low, Taking Back Sunday, The Paper Kites, Spit Syndicate, Something For Kate and Baz Luhrmann.

We're not saying that the guests will necessarily be of that calibre (WHO KNOWS, THOUGH) but they will be bringing in guests and musicians to chat with as much frequency as possible. And for the weeks where we can't bully someone into joining them, at least they have the chops to carry a weekly show, at any rate.

The guys were also responsible for a 12-episode comedy webseries, The Drive (2013), which netted them nominations at LA's Webfest and the Australian Webstream Awards that year.

Griffiths says the fruition of the podcast is the result of a long-bubbling desire to bring theMusic.com.au into the audio realm, and will draw on his and Burrowes' collective experience to provide a bit of easily digestible ear-friendly entertainment for our faithful audience.

"At The Music, we get to do a lot of cool stuff and chat to a lot of fun people, so the idea just made sense," he said.

"Dave was the first guy I thought to do the podcast with when the project started to come together, given our run in the past. We only got suspended from community radio twice, so I think our record speaks for itself."

The first episode is live now on SoundCloud, featuring a chat with revered director Danny Boyle (Trainspotting and T2, 28 Days Later, Slumdog Millionaire and more) — check it out now and tune in again early next week for episode two.