What happened to music that meant something?

The Who at the Kingdom or Kiss at the Coliseum?

Where is the Misty Mountain Hop? Where is the smoke on the water?

Where is the Iron on the water where is the iron man of today. Hey, this is not a test. This is Rock and Roll.

Welcome to sound opinions from Chicago Public Radio and American Public Media.

I'm Jim Deregottis, the pop music critic at the Chicago Sun Times.

And I'm Greg Kot.

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 back from covering the largest music festival in North America,

South by Southwest 2008.

We're going to play some of our favorite discoveries and talk about

what we learn down there news-wise.

You're listening to sound opinions and time now for music news.

The stars at night are big and bright.

Greg for 22 years the South by Southwest Music Festival has descended on Austin the capital of Texas.

It's gotten bigger every year.

Every year people complain about that.

Every year I suspect our editors think we are just sneaking out of town

for spring break leaving the 30 degree weather in Chicago for the 92 degree

weather in Texas during the day but in fact there are so many bands descending on Texas from around the world, many of whom

are going to make big news in the months to come, and there are so many industry people

...