WBEZ Chicago’s Sound Opinions has been in my podcast rotation heavily for the past few months and I just had to blog about it. I realize that I could be preaching to the choir here, but it is the best show ever!
Greg Kot and Jim DeRogatis, regardless of whether or not you agree with them, talk about music in such a passionate way that it makes you want to listen to everything they discuss. The discourse is always engaging and frequently eye-opening. Plus their show affords them the ability to spend 5 or more minutes reviewing an album, with audio spliced in for context.
A breakdown of some of the stuff they’ve recently talked about on the show:
*A full show devoted to Stevie Wonder’s ‘Songs In The Key Of Life’ – Greg and Jim dig DEEP into this classic album and really made me appreciate it in a whole new way.
*Interview with ‘The Big Payback’ author Dan Charnas about how Hip Hop developed as an art and a business – a great conversation about the last 30 years of the music biz.
*A surprising Top 10 albums of 2010 list from Greg and Jim that drove me to finally check out the band Salem, and I’m glad I did.
*Summer Road Trip – interviews with music writers in some bustling music towns like Baltimore, Memphis and Portland about how fertile their local scenes are.
Set aside an hour of your week for these guys and subscribe to the podcast.
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