What do you love about music?

To begin with?

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 Opinions. 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.

Tonight on the world's only rock and roll talk show we've got two big albums by

artists who we haven't heard from in a while.

Pearl Jam remember those guys? Alternative Rock icons?

Yeah, they've been away for four years.

They finally got a new album out, their eighth album.

Much anticipated, everybody thinks, hey, Pearl Jam's back.

We're going to find out tonight whether their new music is any good.

And Bruce Springsteen making a left turn, he's recording an entire album of

folk songs either written or popularized by Pete Seeger.

Plus we've got a live performance and some chat with New York City Indie Rock Darling's

clapier hands say yeah.

They've sold something like a hundred thousand records just by putting their music out on the

internet and then go down the post office mailing people CDs.

Kind of an inspiring story. But first as always we have some music news. Yeah, I'm the blue. No matter where I go, I never hear my red fur on the radio.

And it goes like this.

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