What do you love about music?

To begin with?

Everything. Putting on a great show is the most important thing you can do. One great rock show can change the world. Welcome to sound opinions from Chicago Public Radio and American Public Media.

I'm Jim D. Regattis, the pop music critic at the Chicago

sometimes. And I'm Greg Kott. I write about Rock and Roll for the Chicago

Tribune. Today on the world's only rock and roll talk show, Jim and I are

going to welcome brother-sister rock duo The Firey Furnaces.

Plus we'll review the new album from rapper Lupe Fiosko.

You're listening to sound opinions and time now to welcome our newest affiliate.

Greg we are now going to be on in Bloomington Normal Illinois, downstate Illinois on

WGLT. We decided to check in with a cool local record store called the waiting room in normal

Jared Alcorn is the manager there we got him on the phone Jared welcome to sound opinions

thanks so you know when we when we have a new affiliate come on board we like to welcome them with a little chat with somebody who's in the center of the musical community.

You're the hippest record store. What are people buying?

Well, we had a few.

Some of the biggest ones for us this year was Arcade Fire, Feist,

Grinder Man, Modest Mouse, The Shins.

All good records.

Good taste in Bloomington, Illinois. I'd like to think so. How about locally man? What's the what's the coolest local band?

Well, we've had a few that have been doing pretty well this year probably laserized is sold the most which is pretty good

for a band that's not even together anymore. Oh really so this is a posthumous

release? Yep. Let's hear a little of this let's see what laserize sounds like. There's so much hands. I'm not just a man, I kiss, and I've gone on these lamps,

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