Sound Opinions Creators & Guests

Jim DeRogatis began voicing his opinions about rock ‘n’ roll shortly thereafter. He is a full-time lecturer in the Professional Writing, concentrating on Reviewing the Arts and Writing About Arts and Media, and he continues to write about popular music for WBEZ Chicago. He co-hosts Sound Opinions Podcast.

Greg Kot is an American writer, author, journalist and co-hosts the show Sound Opinions. He has written several books, including I'll Take You There: Mavis Staples, the Staple Singers.

Alex Claiborne is a podcast producer on the music show Sound Opinions.

Lily Rose Beatrice Cooper is professionally known as Lily Allen. She is an English singer and songwriter. Starting out, she made some of her recordings public on Myspace and the publicity resulted in airplay on BBC Radio 1 and a contract with Regal Recordings.

Paul Gorman is an author.

Nancy Wilson is a musician, singer, songwriter, producer, and film composer.

Daniel Kortchmar is a guitarist, session musician, producer, and songwriter.

Damon Locks is a visual artist, musician, and sound artist.

Jody Rosen is a journalist and author.

Holly George-Warren is a writer, biographer, and author of the book, Janis: Her Life and Music.

Caroline Rose is an American singer, songwriter, and musician.

Andy Cirzan is a Christmas music collector and VP of Jam Productions Ltd.

Daniel Quine Auerbach is a musician, singer-songwriter, and record producer, he is best known as the guitarist and vocalist of the Black Keys, a blues-rock band.

Sam Weller is a journalist and author of fiction and nonfiction.

Paul Raci is an actor.

Sharon Katharine Van Etten is a singer, songwriter, and actress.

John Roy Anderson is professionally known as Jon Anderson. He is a singer and songwriter, known as the founder & lead singer of the progressive rock band Yes.

Jonathan Poneman is a co-founder of Sub Pop Records.