I've noticed a number of peculiar incidents among the members of the student body all having to do with rock and roll music.

Oh, I'm down, bitch, a man. Now if you don't think this song is the greatest song ever. I will fight you.

Whether you're a fan of Katie Perry's California pop

or Mavis Staples Chicago soul, there's a ton of new music coming out this fall.

I'm Jim Deregatus of vocalo.org

And I'm Greg Kato of the Chicago Tribune.

We're going to review the season's big new releases

and then Jim is going to add a song he can't live without to the Desert Island

Jukebox.

That's all coming up on sound opinions.

From W bez Chicago and distributed by PRX, you're listening to sound opinions.

Time now for some music news. I am a collector and things well things

tend to accumulate.

As anybody knows he's been listening to sound opinions for the last few years, the money

pool in the music industry is shrinking big time.

That has put added pressure on the so-called performance rights organizations to step up their role. What the performance rights organizations do, like ASCAP and BMI is to go to various

institutions that use recorded music and collect fees for playing that music.

We're not only talking about radio stations, TV and cable networks, and film studios, we're talking

about bars, grocery stores, fitness centers, basically any place that plays

recorded music that is copyrighted is liable by law to pay a fee that is collected by one of these collection agencies and then in turn, theoretically,

turned over to one of the 800,000 songwriters that they represent. It's a big job and it was chronicled recently in a

New York Times Sunday magazine article by contributing writer John Bow, also the author

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