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Baseball season is upon us, and in honor of America’s pastime, Eight Forty-Eight brings you a special sports edition of Music Thursdays. WBEZ music lovers Tony Sarabia and Richard Steele spin their favorite “jock jams,” from hometown fight songs to Brazilian futbol tunes. 

Raza Kazim spent decades determining how to change lives in Pakistan for the better, moving from Communism to audiophilia. From his home in Lahore, we hear of his unusual transformation.

This week on Global Notes, Jerome and Radio M/Eight Forty-Eight host Tony Sarabia team up to offer their criticisms of multi-cultural folk-ish band, Y La Bamba.

According to Syrian opposition groups, the Assad regime has sent tanks into rebellious areas to hunt down activists and torch or bulldoze their homes. The actions come ahead of an April 10 United Nations deadline calling for full compliance with a peace plan to end the violence.

Many of us grew up with a sense of identity and community through the music we listened to. Now, with fast-paced technology, the biggest global community exists online. In a techie world, how has counterculture, and the discovery of new music, taken a new shape?

Ugochi and A.S.E, a favorite of host Tony Sarabia (he plays them on his show Radio M often) joined us on this rainy Friday morning.

Author Stu Shea examines Chicago bands playing all the genres—jazz-rock, hard rock, country-rock, progressive rock, singer-songwriter folk music, and even punk and new wave—in a fun, informative trip through a decade of Chicago’s rock and roll scene.