Doing the tribute shows, which I'm very glad to do, there's a little bit of a mercenary element about it."The tribute shows Rogers mentions are an increasingly common way for musicians from earlier eras to make a buck in an industry that fawns over fresh faces only to dump them when the next one rolls around.Rogers himself has toured singing songs of The Rolling Stones with compadres Adalita, Tex Perkins, and Grinspoon's Phil Jamieson, and The Beatles with Josh Pyke and The Living End's Chris Cheney.Playing other people's songs is not why they got into the business, but Rogers says it's a great way to keep afloat in lean times Pop music and power pop."The album's depiction of suburbia is as visceral as it is vivid — neighbours coughing up their lungs, cabbies telling you not to use the mirror, chip shops, milk bars and the complex relationships happening beyond manicured suburban lawns."It's a pretty strange record," Rogers reflects. "We did 200-and-something shows the year that we wrote that record and I was missing home."I guess I just needed something to keep my fragile little noggin together where we were doing these endless tours of the States