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 Regattis, the pop music critic at the Chicago Sun Times.

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

Today on the world's only Rock and Roll Talk Show, Jim and I are going to discuss the legacy

of one of psychedelic rocks's pioneers, Rocky Ericsson.

And we'll review the new album from country-tinged guitar pop band Rilo Kiley.

You are listening to sound opinions, and now it's time for some music news.

Lifestyles of the broken famous let you know how crazy this game is.

Look at all the new beautiful faces at home supermodel.

My spaces long for they shot on the TV screen American Idol never seen these

dreams just last week they want to see ID that they got you and VIP huh

Greg that is a song called Us Placerers that's on a popular new mixtape called Can't

Me Nothing by Kagnay West it's preceding his official album that comes out

September 11th. The reason we're playing a mixtape song is we've got a follow up to a story we covered a couple of months back.

If you recall the record industry was trying in a big way to shut down this business of DJ's producers, rappers putting out mixtapes.

Kind of casually made basement recordings,

samplers of albums to come alternate versions of songs

that they have either released or will put out soon and selling them

basically as this cottage industry. DJ drama was a popular mixtape

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