by Daniel Emberg
“Breaking Bad is basically a country song.” You’ve probably never heard it put that way before, but it actually seems pretty intuitive when you think about it, no? Those are the words of John Showman, frontman of the Toronto band New Country Rehab, in explaining to Stylus how he views music. It is not just a catchy quote. Showman’s point is that while art is always modern in its own time, the things people most care about are the questions that have proven vexing enough to keep getting asked by every successive generation of humans. Continue reading “New Country Rehab :: Music Changes, Themes Don’t”
