<p><span><span>- It’s been a while since I’ve checked in with <strong>Cancer Bats</strong>. Always at the very forefront of hardcore for the masses, it kind of threw me when I saw they’d recently parted ways with their long time guitarist<strong> Scott Middleton </strong>after seventeen years of service. I wondered how they’d continue on after such a major change. The answer? Without a single issue and without being rankled in the slightest.

<p><span><span><span>- If it seems like Bree Van Reyk has a lot of projects orbiting her musical world, it’s because she does. Fossicking through the internet I’ve heard her in chamber ensembles and performing electronica and idm; doing avant-garde percussion or composing whole operas; I even managed to travel back twenty years and hear her slow-core, sad-core, post-rocking in her band </span><strong>The Rebel Astronauts</strong><span> (which sounded pretty good, to be honest).

<p><span><span>- There’s a ghostly voice floating up out of northern New South Wales. Touched with a world weary sadness, it’s the sound of a soul that’s seen more than plague and flood. In fact it’s seen the world and at every stage of that journey the sound of its longing has become more plaintive and piercing. It’s as though Stephanie Cherote travelled the globe, looking for something, and all she ended up with is the memories of what she left behind.</span></span></p>