There had been abuse in my family, but it was mostly musical in nature. I don't want any of this lovers lament crap I want something peppy, something up temple, I.E.M. has called it quits, leaving behind a legacy of 15 albums and a model

for indie rockers to come. I'm Jim Dirogatus from W be Z and Columbia College.

And I'm Greg Cotta the Chicago Tribune. We look back at the music and career of

R.E.M. and review the new Wilco release that's coming up on sound opinions.

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And time now for some music news. Washington, we're watching you a classic

Washington, we're watching you.

Tell me, what the hell you're gonna do?

Washington, we're watching you a classic from the Staples singers.

Mr. Cott, you just came back from our nation's capital,

covering the annual future of music coalition conference.

What did you learn in DC?

This is a huge conference for the technology, government, music, and legal communities

in terms of how their interests intersect.

Now the big development as far as I was concerned was we how their interests intersects.

Now the big development as far as I was concerned

was we got some firm guidance as to where copyright law

is going in this country.

A number of people have been advocating

a major overhaul of copyright law going all the way back a decade ago to the first ruling on

a napster case where the judge in that case basically said you know what the

law really isn't applying to the way people are accessing music anymore.

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