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. 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.

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. It’s only at the end of a story that you really get it. At many other points in Cyndi Lauper’s career, it was easy not to. What was with the wrestling? The Goonies thing? That B-movie with Jeff Goldblum? The country, jazz and blues albums? The one that only came out in Japan? Couldn’t she just do more smash hits about girls having fun? “Whaddya mean a mess?” she demands.

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

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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. Who wants to see David Blaine smash a bottle on his skull? Warning: this is not a trick. Something about the grim, palpably reluctant way he practises swinging it — more like a deadly bludgeon than the lightweight fakes in cowboy movies — makes for a sickening few moments of television. Then, magically, his phone rings.

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. MUSICDressed In Black: The Shangri-Las and Their Recorded LegacyLisa MacKinneyVerse Chorus Press, $36.99“I met him at the candy sto-ore!” The magnificently overwrought fanfare of Leader of the Pack is one of those solid gold rock ’n’ roll moments that gets quiz nights and neck hairs instantly buzzing. Double points if you can name the band.