Michael Dwyer

2 weeks 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. The legend on the distant stranger’s jacket read “Sad Dads”. The fine print came into focus up close. “The National”. Ah. My fellow dog-walker wasn’t advertising a community support group, he was wearing band merch: some rock critic’s slur reclaimed as a badge of honour. Matt Berninger is chuffed to receive this snapshot of solidarity from the far side of the world.

3 weeks 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. In a century-old industrial warehouse in Richmond, Shelley Short sings a story twice as old. Through the old tin and timber rings Martha Hayes, a song about the innocent daughter of a transported convict woman, and the mother of Tasmania’s first European child. Around her, a big band swirls.

3 weeks 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. In a century-old industrial warehouse in Richmond, Shelley Short sings a story twice as old. Through the old tin and timber rings Martha Hayes, a song about the innocent daughter of a transported convict woman, and the mother of Tasmania’s first European child. Around her, a big band swirls.

4 weeks 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 month 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.