You gotta understand something here. This music is the glue of the world. It holds it all together.

Without this, life would be meaningless. What are you getting so crazy about? It's just music.

Welcome to Sound Opinion from Chicago Public Radio and American Public Media.

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

And I'm Greg Katz, I write about Rock and Roll for the Chicago Tribune.

Today on the world's only rock and old talk show, we're going to welcome musician, poet, and performance artist Lori Anderson.

And then Greg and I'll review and rate the new albums from Hip Hop Group The Roots and Triphoppers Portishead.

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

That was me playing conquers at the bus stop on a blanket in the blue bells

that was me. The same me that stands in now. And when I think that all this stuff

can make the life, it's pretty hard to take it in that was me

Greg that of course is Sir Paul McCartney with a song from memory almost full the one

and it turns out only album he will release for

Here Music the label that was started by the Starbucks coffee chain.

There was a lot of talk that with Starbucks starting its own record label, Hear Music,

this was perhaps a way that the record industry can continue with its old model,

but in a new setting.

You know, what if all sorts of restaurants and retail outlets started labels you know clothing stores and and of course you know coffee shops are natural because you go in and you're hearing the music in fact Starbucks had a corporate programming thing for all the music systems and all of its

outlets so it would only play Paul McCartney's album the week it was released.

They also had big releases by Joni Mitchell and James Taylor and some newer artists like Sia. Now as the chain is starting

to have some serious trouble on the business side of things, it got too big, too fast in this

era of corporate global expansion. The first thing that went was the record

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