Good music is what we want to hear.

What do you mean? Good music. It's what we dance to, what our children will dance to.

And if you don't want to play it, then take your records and go home.

Did you have a band? It's a great band. It's a bad band. It's like pizza baby. It's good no matter if there's music in the air.

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

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

And I'm Greg Cott. I write about Rock and Roll for the Chicago Tribune. This week on the world's only

rock and roll talk show, Jim and I run down our experiences at this year's

South by Southwest Music Festival in Austin, Texas. We'll tell you about some of our favorite discoveries and later on

we'll review the new album from the Y-Yay-Yas.

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

Gano come! And that we know you're not alive.

I'm going to be able to get a new one. That is the artist named Nathan Williams who records and are named Waves. He was one of

1900 artists and bands to play at the 23rd annual South by Southwest Music Conference

that just completed in Austin, Texas.

Jim and I were once again happily on the scene

to cover this conference.

It is the single biggest music conference

in North America.

More than 10,000 people registering for the conference.

Ninhundred bands of which Nathan Williams and Waves was one.

At one point Williams joked during one of his sets, this is one of 953 gigs that I'm playing this week and he was not exaggerating at least not by much.

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