Michael Dwyer

5 days ago | theage.com.au | Michael Dwyer

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Suki Waterhouse is fashionably late. “Five or ten”, one of her team emails as I watch the black screen. Sadly, the interview will be audio only. Which I totally get, having spent many hours on an exhausting social media video trail documenting the daily affairs of the English Model, Actress, Whatever, to borrow one of her canny recent song titles.

1 week ago | theage.com.au | Michael Dwyer

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. HIGHJACK is about right. If you search Jessica Pratt on your favourite music streaming service, that title by A$AP Rocky is instantly up in your face. It’s a cool jam, even if Pratt’s incongruously introspective vocal doesn’t feature until two minutes in. Meanwhile, the superstar Harlem rapper’s bitch-swipin’ bravado offers, well, bracing contrast.

1 week ago | smh.com.au | Michael Dwyer

Jonathan Zawada had always loved the Radiohead frontman’s music. Their collaboration brought him to tears. , register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The world according to Thom Yorke is no garden party. “Get inside and close the curtains,” is the first decipherable sentence in a panic of distorted voices at the beginning of Tall Tales , a three-way visual and audio collaboration hitting cinema screens next week.

2 weeks ago | smh.com.au | Michael Dwyer

The theremin’s “woo-ooo” sound has haunted music and cinema lovers for years. Carolina Eyck is the world’s best player but she’s still making sense of it. , register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Uncanny, spooky, weird. The theremin is a musical instrument with baggage. Depending on your vintage, it’s the aliens landing in The Day The Earth Stood Still or the haunting waltz of Midsomer Murders.

1 month ago | smh.com.au | Michael Dwyer

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. TECHNOLOGYMood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Cost of the Perfect PlaylistLiz PellyHachette, $32.99So Spotify knows Amused To Death is my favourite Roger Waters album and Perfect Sense is my favourite track. I bet it hasn’t worked out which line of the song is stuck on high rotation in my head. Yet.