Michael Dwyer
Michael Dwyer is an arts and music writer.
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The problem with K-pop? The songs are a minor cog in a monstrous machine
When the numbers overshadow the art, alarms start ringing for music fans.
- Michael Dwyer
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‘Maybe it’s useful to just say, we’re just people’: Kae Tempest
The lauded poet, playwright and rapper, touring Australia next month, came out in 2020 and has since spoken publicly about his transition.
- Michael Dwyer
Men did it tough inside Pentridge. One thing made all the difference
From a radio station inside D Division, songs carried messages of support or menace. Its record collection is now in limbo.
- Michael Dwyer
The song that haunts Go-Betweens frontman Robert Forster
The singer-songwriter has written his first novel, spinning out of his own song about two musicians on the run
- Michael Dwyer
Orchestras are the last frontier: singer-songwriter Beck
LA-based singer Beck, pop’s “trash compactor”, returns to his father’s business when he tours Australia next month.
- Michael Dwyer
The Beach Boys’ Al Jardine keeps Brian Wilson’s otherworldly music alive
The band’s quiet survivor pays tribute to the late Brian Wilson and celebrates his “universal consciousness” with The Pet Sounds Orchestra.
- Michael Dwyer
Jeff Goldblum’s eccentric rhythm finds its groove at the piano
At 72, Goldblum seems less an actor or musician these days than a meme in the original sense: a kind of agreed cultural constant.
- Michael Dwyer
Chrissy Amphlett’s ‘third act’: New songs emerge as stage show returns
New songs and the reprise of a one-woman stage show realise the last creative risks of a rock legend.
- Michael Dwyer
How this ’90s grunge rocker survived the ‘chaos incarnate’ of Courtney Love and Hole
Melissa Auf der Maur played bass with Hole, dated Dave Grohl and was mentored by Billy Corgan – now she is telling her story.
- Michael Dwyer
When the performer herself says it’s almost too cold to sing, you have a problem
At Peach PRC’s gig, it’s freezing, and the light rain and cold wind blowing in from St Kilda beach make for harsh conditions to fully embrace the experience.
- Vyshnavee Wijekumar, Sonia Nair, Cameron Woodhead, Will Cox, Michael Dwyer and Tony Way