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 from Chicago Public Radio and American Public Media. I'm Jim Deorgatis, the pop music critic at the Chicago Sun Times.

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

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

Jim and I explore one of the most influential music genres today,

synth pop.

And later on, Greg and I will review the new album from Broken Bells, the collaboration

between James Mercer of the Shins and DJ Danger Mouse.

You're listening to sound opinions and time now for some music news The news this week Jim is topped with the success story that Pandora the Internet

Music Service has become. Remember you know the 2000s, 2000s 2001 all these promising internet startups everybody was going to make

zillions and zillions of dollars well one by one a lot of those internet startups

fell by the wayside they they could attract an audience but they couldn't

figure out how to monetize that audience. Pandora has been the exception.

Unlike say spiral frog and Napster, they have become a huge success in the internet era, one of the first big ones.

It took a while, it took about a decade, about here they are with an audience that has 48 million users signing on to their site for 11

and a half hours a month generating 50 million dollars in revenue last quarter the first profitable quarter in

Pandora's history now projected to make a hundred million dollars this year.

Man. So the service has gone through the roof and has become a go-to site on the internet for people to discover new music.

They have over 700,000 songs that they are making available to the public.

So here we have a legit music service on the internet that is finally making money.

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