You gotta understand something there. 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 opinions from Chicago Public Radio and American Public Media.

I'm Jim De Regattis, the pop music critic at the Chicago Sun-times.

And I'm Greg Cott. I write about Rock-and-roll for the Chicago Tribune.

Today in the world's only rock-and-roll talk show, Jim and I'm... I write about Rock and Roll for the Chicago Tribune.

Today in the world's only rock and roll talk show,

Jim and I are joined by the founders of the Numero group,

a label that celebrates some of the great overlooked artists

of the last 50 years.

And later on, we'll review the new albums from British pop star Lily Allen and the New Jersey

Indie Rockers Titus Andronicus.

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

Yes indeed Greg and if you recall we were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the

desert when the drugs began to take hold. Sorry just how to do it. Hunter

Thompson. Hunter S Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, we have nothing but

appreciation and love for Las Vegas because K&P.R. Nevada Public Radio has added sound opinions.

And you know, rather than go with the killers which are making a lot of noise out of Vegas

right now or panic at the disco, we wanted to go back to a more psychedelic era because you know Vegas is

literally the trippiest place I've ever been it is whether you're talking you know

nature when you go out to the desert in the beautiful countryside or the strip right so

the great onslaught of techno in the mid 90s, when the techno onslaught

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