CONVERSATIONS WITH DWYER
When Matt Dwyer started Conversations With Dwyer he wanted it to be an homage to the great oral historian Studs Terkel. He wanted to talk to everyday people about their lives and what they did for work. This quickly changed when his proclivities for fringe artists and activists took over and he began interviewing exiled Black Panther Pete O’Neil, Mark Rudd from the Weather Underground and the rabble rousing godfather of Punk Wayne Kramer. Overtime Dwyer dedicated his podcast to music with an occasional digression to a writer or director. The show is nearing 350 episodes most of which are musicians of the likes of Wayne Coyne from The Flaming Lips, Lou Barlow, Donita Sparks of L7, Lydia Gammell of Gustaf, King Khan, Kid Congo and the list goes on and on and on.
Dwyer takes an improvisational approach to each episode. He exhaustively researches each guest until he feels well stocked with information and then throws it all away and heads into the conversation sparked by the very first exchange between the guest and himself and goes from there. The result is a relaxed and organic conversation where guest and host discover things along the way, veer into unexpected territories giving the listener the feeling of eavesdropping on a conversation at a coffee shop.
After an episode with legendary actor, musician, artist, and composer John Lurie, Dwyer assisted Lurie with getting an idea and some footage to Oscar winning filmmaker Adam McKay. This would quickly develop into the critically acclaimed HBOshow “Painting with John” which Dwyer is co-producer.
Conversations With Dwyer also inspired the Sub Pop compilation album The 11th Hour: Songs For Climate Justice which benefits the Climate Emergency Fund.
Conversations With Dwyer began on Feral Audio in the Spring of 2012. A few years later Feral Audio disintegrated. The podcast has been 100% independent ever since.
