My cousin was telling me that he was getting into, of all things, country music! No, it’s OK…specifically he’s into insurgent country music, a genre of country music that also roots in punk and rock. Not familiar with the genre, I looked it up and found this on alt.country…whatever:

That particular term comes from a label called Bloodshot Records, who took it upon themselves to apply a label to a bunch of bands that people started calling alt.country, “No Depression”, or what I was beginning to call “rural contemporary” at the suggestion of Wilco guitarist Jay Bennett (an appellation I still rather like), or whatever. Their definition is, music that “applies a steel-toed boot to the rhinestone-encrusted ass of commercialized country crap.”

Heh heh. Sounds interesting! I will have to track some down.