You gotta understand something there. This music is the glue of the world. It holds it all together.

Without this, life would be meaningless. this. What are you getting so crazy about? It's just music. Chicago Public Radio and American Public Media. I'm Jim De Regattis, the pop music critic at the Chicago

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

on the world's only rock and roll talk show, Jim, you and I are going to go to get our doctor

degrees, emerge in our white lab coats. We are going to go visit a patient who is

in dire dire need of musical medicine. Yeah he's in a bad way. A celebrity guest. A celebrity guest who has

been a music lover all his life but he has run out of time, run out of options, knows there's

great new music out there but doesn't know where to start and we're

going to give him some prescriptions of what new music to go out there and buy and

cure him of his musical filmless. Plus we're going to have reviews of two new

albums that you might like the the latest from the Electro Clash

provocateur gender bender Peaches and the political jam band from

out in San Francisco Michael Franty and Spearhead. But first as always we have some news. without her anyway. You said you wasn't sad to see ago.

Yeah, but it's so clear you were though.

That's a little bit of Arctic Monkeys, a band that went not to radio or not to MTV

to break its new music, but to the social interaction site, my space.com. one of many bands in the world right

now that are using that website to break new songs one of the most popular social

networking sites on the internet and in fact according to a recent news report the

myspace.com site has overtaken yahoo ink's email gateway is the single most

visited US website.

Jim I think the key here is that the MySpace.com phenomenon just continues to grow and grow and grow.

Recent surveys find that 61% of teenagers have a personal profile in sites such as MySpace or

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