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Just what compels the main of unsigned, unrepresented, DIY bands to ghost-write their band bio in the third person and intimate the dodgy penmanship belongs to another author? Western Stars know first-hand. “They’re” a country-influenced indie-rock four-piece who’ve been gigging around Melbourne and congregating in lounge and rehearsal rooms with beer, pizza and guitars for the past few years, crossing fingers they might somehow wind up sounding like the mongrel stepchild of Steve Earle, Whiskeytown, Wilco, The Replacements and Big Star. Anyway, it’s well known anybody who has ever written a bio is a liar. Which is why the band recently rented 20-odd hours of studio time (at Headgap Studios) to create recorded evidence that either proves or disproves the fictitiousness of the text above. The first single from these sessions is ‘Mexican Motel’. Thematically anchored in the netherworlds of dealers and degenerates who idle away their daytimes in cheap motels, the song affectionately