What do you love about music?

To begin with,

everything. 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 Op sound opinions from Chicago Public Radio and American Public Media. I'm Jim Deregatus, the pop music critic at the Chicago sometimes.

And I'm Greg Cut.

I write about rock and roll for the Chicago Tribune. Today on the world's only rock and roll talk show,

hip-hop, Fokey Tim Fight sits down with Jim and I to chat and perform songs from his new album.

We'll also review new albums by the Breeders and Metal Gods

Dis Fear.

Plus, Greg will add a track to the Desert Island Jukebox.

You are listening to sound opinions and time now for some music news. drink we had a small she took off or overcoat I kissed a girl.

That's Jill Sobiol with her best known song the 1995 hit I Kissed a Girl.

Jill Sobiol a major label recording artist for a number of years, six albums on four

separate labels.

Now she's on her own doing a unique thing asking her fans to fund her new record.

This is a trend that is becoming more widespread in the music industry in the last few months.

We are seeing little companies starting up

attracting investors to pay for new bands to make albums the slice the pie website

has raised two million dollars thirty thousand dollars of which went to fund the first fan-funded album on the site, a band called

The Alps, so the record called Something I Might Regret that just came out a few weeks ago.

Now we're seeing Jill Sobewule doing the same thing as an

independent artist. Greg, Jill Sobial set out to raise $75,000. She's already

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