Every Time I Die frontman Keith Buckley once felt he was paying for mistakes made in past lives. Bolting over personal hurdles, Buckley and his merchants of metalcore masala will blow the minds of us antipodean types, appearing on Aussie soil for the second time this year.
Interview: Cherrywood (Beat)
The only way for punk-inspired country band Cherrywood is up. Drummer Chris Drane used to clean toilets at the Corner Hotel, and now he's sweeping up friends from all corners of Australia. Cherrywood is a bit of a head scratcher. They've written scarring acoustic tunes about Pentridge Prison, throbbing heads and bleeding hearts with hands as calloused as stockmen. But how do you figure a country band from Melbourne? -
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Review: Regurgitator - Dirty Pop Fantasy (Beat)
About 15 years ago, satirical news source The Onion warned we may be running out of past to recycle. With artists like Lana Del Rey and Mumford and Sons in the mainstream, The Onion was right. What's offered is oh-so-serious rehash, seemingly forgoing fun when exalting kitsch.
Regurgitator didn't forget. This record is Ben Ely and Quan Yeomans' wild laboratory of pop music that almost was, unconstrained by coked-up label execs or A&R fluffers.