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

Without this, life would be meaningless. What are you getting so crazy about? It's just music.

Welcome to sound opinions from Chicago Public Radio and American Public Media.

I'm Jim De Orgatus of pop music critic at the Chicago. from Chicago Public Radio and American Public Media.

I'm Jim Deorgatus of pop music critic at the Chicago Sun time.

And I'm Greg Kotz.

I write about Rock and Roll for the Chicago Tribune.

Today on the world's only rock and roll talk show.

We're going to tell you what happens when you take away

the amplifier from one of heavy metals greatest guitarist, Rage Against the Machine's Tom

Barrello. While his old band reunites this weekend in California, we're going to bring you a conversation

performance and unique acoustic rage tune from Tom Marilla.

You're listening to sound opinions and time now for some music news. But it's blooming at a wreck it high.

People coming, people going, people want to die.

Don't ask me because I don't know why but it's like that and that's the way it

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That's run the MC in early 80s hip-hop classic from New York City, the godfather of that New York City

hip-hop scene, Russell Simmons, in on the ground floor of the inception of groups like

Run DMC and L.L. K J and the Beastie Boys has spoken out

recently against hip-hop lyrics coming in the wake of Don Imis is firing over

racially insensitive comments about the Rutgers women's

basketball team. There has been a ground swell of voices in the both the

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