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Michael Dwyer

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Melbourne
As seen in: The Age, Nature, The Guardian, The Guardian Australia, Rolling Stone, Rolling Stone Australia, Stuff.co.nz, Sydney Morning Herald, Naked City, New Musical Express (NME), The Sunday Age and
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Michael Dwyer writes about music and the people who make it. From Rolling Stone (USA) and Melody Maker (UK) to The Age and the Guardian in his home country, Australia, he has been published by iconic pop culture mastheads over four decades.
He has also been employed as a street press editor, a Triple J and community radio broadcaster, a copywriting contractor, a lecturer in arts journalism, a film script writer and consultant, and a music commentator on ABC TV and radio.
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Michael Dwyer’s Journalist Portfolio

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Brilliant, broke and wilfully annoying: the sad legacy of Frank Zappa

Brilliant, broke and wilfully annoying: the sad legacy of Frank Zappa

To watch Alex Winter’s film is to realise how completely we’ve squandered the wondrous potential of music sin…

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An 'embarrassing dirge': Australian musicians on why we need a new anthem

An 'embarrassing dirge': Australian musicians on why we need a new anthem

Australians deserve a new national anthem.

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Stayin' Alive: The music will last without the rehashes

Stayin' Alive: The music will last without the rehashes

"I'm beginning to recognise the fact that nothing is true. Nothing. It's all down to perception," Barry Gibb …

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Counting down a century of endless summer songs

Counting down a century of endless summer songs

Watermelon Sugar? Genius. Nothing like seasonal fruit to trigger that perennial taste of summer in a pop song…

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Don't let it be: The untold story of the Beatles' demise

Don't let it be: The untold story of the Beatles' demise

In Peter Jackson's first, five-minute teaser montage of The Beatles: Get Back, there's more goofing-off and d…

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Third time's the charm from old charmer Sir Paul

Third time's the charm from old charmer Sir Paul

Paul McCartney: McCartney III ★★★½ When he finds himself in times of trouble, Beatle Paul self-isolates. McCa…

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Quantifying cortical lesions in multiple sclerosis MRI datasets using multi-contrast post-processing and deep learning

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By Michael Dwyer Verified, Niels Bergsland, Alexander Bartnik, Dejan Jakimovski, Samantha Noteboom, Menno M Schoonheim, Martijn D. Steenwijk, Jinglan Pei, David Clayton, Robert Zivadinov
| Nature Verified
Abstract Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic neurological disease affecting both white and gray matter of the central nervous system. Despite the well-established involvement of cortical lesions in MS, feasibility limitations in their visualization on typical magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) protocols prevent their evaluation in nearly all clinical trials.
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Meet Laufey, TikTok’s hottest jazz ambassador

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By Michael Dwyer Verified
| Big World Tale
By Michael Dwyer Credit: Gemma Warren Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The sound is classic circa ’65 bossa nova and the kids are mad for it. They raise smartphones and voices to sing every word, all but drowning out the pretty girl from Iceland rolling her big eyes and swinging her hollow-body jazz guitar. It’s sexy and electric. Sixty seconds of YouTube gold.
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The inspirational band that took Indigenous culture to the world

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By Michael Dwyer Verified
BIOGRAPHY Yothu Yindi: Writing In The Sand Matt Garrick ABC Books, $45 The spine falls open on a decorated spread that runs to three pages. “This land was never given up. This land was never bought and sold … Treaty Yeah, Treaty Now,” the famous lyrics read. The fact that the song lands almost bang in the middle of his life story might well have struck the late Dr M Yunupingu. Balance was his thing.
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Awards

Western Australian Music Hall of Fame

1991 - Industry innovation

The Hall of Fame recognises those members of the industry who have made an outstanding contribution to WA contemporary music over their career.

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