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Whether you're an expert, or just a casual fan, *Sound Opinions* is your source for smart and engaging music criticism and conversation. Each week on the show, nationally respected rock critics and interview artists, talk about pop culture and music industry news, review new record releases and give trends a historical context. And, because on *Sound Opinions*, "everyone's a

critic," listeners are invited to join in the debate.

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11/22/2024

What track brings back your best memory of the great Quincy Jones?

Jim and Greg pay tribute to the late legend who died November 3 at age 91. They revisit their interview with Jones and Greg plays a deep cut track that Quincy arranged featuring a baseball icon.

👉 Listen now: https://apple.co/3YSsBKY

11/21/2024

Jim writes about one of the richest musical cultures we’ve ever celebrated on Sound Opinions, as our guide Lior Phillips leads us through the unique rhythms and melodies of South Africa. 🇿🇦

Read more about how music has been used as a force for connection and positive change: https://bit.ly/3AP2psO

11/15/2024

What are you top 9 favorite R.E.M. albums?

Greg went back and listened to the entire collection for a fresh perspective on their work and writes about which LPs held up the best. Read more about his personal favorites: https://bit.ly/3YHfjAU

11/14/2024

Jim and Greg share their personal experiences as fans and rock critics of R.E.M. and how the band shifted in their eyes over the years. Biographer Peter Ames Carlin joins them to share his take on the band and their legacy in conversation as well: https://bit.ly/3UQGKav

11/12/2024

Greg shares a 17-minute song, or in his words "experience," that has resonated with him since his seventh grade arts teacher first introduced it. Listen to Greg advocate for the crucial need for arts teachers in schools to "blow young minds": https://apple.co/40IPfrV 🎨🥁🎭

11/11/2024

We were thinking this might be a low-key acoustic gig but Umphrey's McGee amped things up for the faithful and "Sound Opinions" at the Goose Island Pub at the Salt Shed. See the band rip it up on "Cut the Cable."

11/08/2024

For all our listeners who missed it -- watch Umphrey's McGee perform "Cut The Cable" live on Sound Opinions at the Goose Island Salt Shed Pub: https://bit.ly/48I1GpH

11/05/2024

Jim writes about how the punk-rock underground often gets credit for operating outside the traditional restraints of the music business as usual, treating fans less like a customer base to be exploited than as a community to be nurtured and celebrated. He argues jam bands often set the model in this regard, starting with the grandaddy of them all, the Grateful Dead.

🔗 Read more: https://bit.ly/4ee9TDw

Umphrey's McGee

10/31/2024

Greg reveals his personal playlist full of horror classics that he uses to greet each trick-or-treater that darkens his door every Halloween night. Grab your favorite Halloween brew and turn it up! 🧟‍♂️🧟‍♂️

Read more: https://bit.ly/3UxrMpA

10/30/2024

Jim and Greg pay tribute to the lovely queens of Halloween - witches! They also celebrate ghosts of the dead returning to earth with two sets of spooky playlists. 👻🔮👻🔮

Listen now: https://bit.ly/3Un9PKf

10/24/2024

What band gives you your sugar fix? 🍬

Jim writes about how the McDonald brothers, the driving forces behind Redd Kross since 1978, have always been fond of incorporating the sounds that first inspired them as pre-teens spinning on their parents’ record player—glam-rock, power-pop, first-generation punk, and more.

"The McDonalds were raised on and love the same junk that gave me my sugar fix when I was eating Frosted Flakes in front of Saturday morning TV in the early ’70s."

🔗 Read more: https://bit.ly/48jQ7oE

10/23/2024

Jim and Greg talk with Steven and Jeff McDonald of the band Redd Kross. They chat about musical influences ranging from punk to ‘70s cheese, their career arc and the new documentary, book and album they’ve released this year.

👉 Listen now: https://bit.ly/40elyyS

10/21/2024

Jim shines a light on a little known r&b and jazz singer, Gloria Lynne, whose 1966 b-side "Speaking of Happiness" has been used in several films and TV shows over the past decades: https://apple.co/3Ny0mw2

10/17/2024

How does a Southerner of conscience make sense of a tangled legacy that includes the segregationist policies of a politician like George Wallace? Greg recalls when "Southern Rock Opera" showed up in his mailbox in 2001 and writes about how the album compresses the South’s musical and political history into a dense, moving 18-song double album of arena-rock swagger, punk attitude and poetic soul. Read more: https://bit.ly/3Nti3N9

Drive-By Truckers

10/16/2024

Jim and Greg speak with primary songwriter and singer of the Drive-By Truckers, Patterson Hood, for an in depth discussion about making the 2001 album, “Southern Rock Opera,“ which celebrates its twenty-third anniversary. Listen to their classic album dissection of the magnum opus now: https://bit.ly/4f7iwR7

10/11/2024

Greg pays tribute to the late Nick Gravenites, who wrote impactful songs for the The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Janis Joplin and more.

🎧 Listen now: https://bit.ly/4gXRQnz

10/10/2024

Join Jim DeRogatis & Greg Kot for a free LIVE taping of Sound Opinions on Friday, October 18th at 1-2pm CDT. Doors open at 12pm! The guys will feature an interview and performance from Fruit Bats at the Goose Island Salt Shed Pub!

👉 Reserve your spot now: https://bit.ly/3TztMgu

10/09/2024

What is your best memory of Greenwich Village? This week Jim's writing all about his time spent in the Village in 1982. Read more: https://bit.ly/3NfDRfh

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