Conversations With Dwyer

MJ Lenderman is a singer songwriter from Asheville North Carolina. In addition to his prolific solo work he is also a member of Wednesday. MJ joins Dwyer to share what it's like to be critically acclaimed, the splendor of Harry Crews and David Berman, his approach to songwriting and how one needs to keep things simple.

Opening Song Toontown from MJ Lenderman's album Boat Songs

MJ Lenderman Bandcamp

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MJ Lenderman Instagram

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This episode is dedicated to the memory of the best dog that ever lived Charlie aka Charlie Bear.

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Portland based rapper Bryson The Alien joins Dwyer to discuss escaping Ohio to Portland, being a new dad, integrating his saxophone skills into his music, and how the term rapper doesn't represent what he does. You can listen to the full unedited conversation on Patreon HERE

Opening Song, I'm Out (Featuring Signe Baburin)

Bryson The Aliens album The Great Adventures of Bryson The Alien will be out September 16th on PNKSLM

Unexplained Aerial Phenomenon

Bryson The Alien Website

Bryson The Alien Instagram

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Bobby Matador of the seminal band Oneida joins Dwyer to talk about the Cleveland Punk scene of the 80s, the glory days of Punk Zines, the importance of the human curation of music opposed to algorithms, and Oneida's 25th anniversary album Success.

Patreon Part 2 of the Bobby Matador HERE

Opening Song, I Want To Hold Your Hand from the album Success

Oneida's Bandcamp

New Pope Bandcamp

Oneida Instagram

The Mice "Not Proud of the USA"

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Maryam Qudus of Spacemoth joins Dwyer to discuss her new album No Past No Future, struggling to find the weirdos, her TV perfect high school and her trying to explain to her Afghani that playing music didn't mean doing drugs.

Patreon Exclusive Part 2 of my talk with Maryam HERE

Opening Song Pipe and Pistol from the album No Past No Future

Spacemoth Bandcamp

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Spacemoth Twitter

Women's Audio Mission

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Alex Edkins returns to discuss his new band Weird Nightmare, how this side project help him cope through the pandemic, his desire to write hookier tunes, and the love METZ felt when they got their gear stolen in California. We also discuss his side project of scoring films and television.

Opening Song, Searching For You from the album Weird Nightmare out on Sub Pop Records.

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METZ website

Edkins & Walsh Film/TV scores

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The fascinating, affable, and charming Jonathan Meiburg of Shearwater and Loma joins Dwyer in a conversations that covers a wide array of topics. They discuss the beauty of Marvin Gaye, facing thoughts of suicide and how one pulls out of it, and how Jonathan's fascination with a bird of prey called the caracaras sent his life spinning into a new direction and the book he wrote about them.

The Patreon Part 2 of my conversation with Jonathan HERE

Opening song, Xenarthran from the Shearwater album The Great Awakening

Shearwater Bandcamp

Jonathan's Book The Most Remarkable Creature

Loma Bandcamp

Shearwater Instagram

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Tongo Eisen-Martin is the poet laureate of San Francisco, an educator and activist. He is a powerful poet and a brilliant mind and it was an honor to spend two hours talking with him. Tongo joined me hours after we heard that the Supreme Court had overturned Roe. Tongo enlightened me to many of his views on the world. How many of us have been lulled asleep by late stage imperialism, how a society founded on a slavocracy does not have the DNA to be a democracy, how he was a product of a family organized intentionally and how writing poetry is getting to know your paralel intelligence. This was a two part conversation. The 2nd part lives on my patreon page.

Part 2 of the Conversation can be heard exclusively on Patreon HERE

Opening music, Church Bell by LOAN

Tongo Eisen-Martin BANDCAMP

Tongo's Books

Someone's Dead Already

Tongo's Books at City Lights Bookstore

Tongo on Twitter

Tongo in Instagram

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Sarah La Puerta is a solo artist who has played with Thor & Friends and Tele Novella. She joins Dwyer to talk about he life dealing with dead rabbits, living among the Amish, learning how to do anything for ourselves before the end times, and how a church was her domicile during the pandemic.

Part 2 Of Sarah's Conversation HERE

Opening Song, Tangerine and Yellow from Sarah's album Strange Paradise

Sarah La Puerta's website

Perpetual Doom's Bandcamp

Sarah's Instagram

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Ellie Kim is the one person force that is SuperKnova. Ellie joins Dwyer to talk about coming out trans in a Korean family, overcoming her internalized transphobia to sing in SuperKnova, how now is the best time for music and the positive aspects of being a solo artist.

Opening Song Goals by SuperKnova

Spotify: SuperKnova

Apple Music: SuperKnova

Bandcamp: SuperKnova

Youtube: SuperKnovaMusic

Instagram: @SuperKnovaMusic

Tik Tok : @SuperKnovaMusic

Facebook: SuperKnovaMusic

SoundCloud: SuperKnova

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Matt Mehlan of Skeletons, The Mehlans and the supergroup Congotronics International joins Dwyer to talk about suburban life, the the community in the experimental music scene in New York, the records he discovered in college, and the incredible evolution of Congotronics International. If you are unaware Congotronics International is a super group consisting of Deerhoof, Skeletons, Juana Molina, Wildbirds & Peacedrums, Kasai Allstars and Konono No 1. It's a magical album.

Part 2 of the Patreon Exclusive part of the conversation HERE

Opening Song Where's The One? from the album Where's The one by Congotronics International

Matt Mehlan's Bandcamp/Label HERE

Matt Mehlans recent album Slow Dances

Congotronics International's Bandcamp

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