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 Opin 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 Cut.

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

talk show, Jim and I talked to Portland Indie Rock Band Blitz and Trapper and sample some songs from their new album,

Fur. And later on, Greg and I will review the new albums from British giant PJ Harvey and

the Malian duo Amadu and Mariam.

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

That's right Jim and when we welcome a new station to the sound opinions fold we like to play a piece of music from that region

but this week we're welcoming three new stations.

Yes Greg we have two stations that have just added us in Alaska

K-C-C-H-U in Valdez and K-S-T-K in R, but in the spirit of Brotherly Solidarity we want to focus on Grand Forks, North Dakota's KFJM.

Folks in those parts are really having a hard time right now with the Red River flooding.

We thought we'd play a piece of music by a native son from their area commemorating the last

great flood in 1997. You discovered Tom Russo, you're a big fan of his.

Yes, I saw Tom Bruseau actually open a show for Sam Phillips at Largo in California many years ago.

And I was blown away by this kid great singer-songwriter who

happens to be from North Dakota and writes a lot of songs about growing up there and

what it was like to live there as well as his experience with the flooding in

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