Hot Tuna At The El Rey
Electric. If you’d have asked me whether I wanted to go, I would have said no. But my friend Steve was in from New York, and he’s their longtime agent,…
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Bob Lefsetz
The Bob Lefsetz Podcast: Danny Goldberg
From a majordomo at Swan Song, Led Zeppelin’s record label, to managing Bonnie Raitt and Nirvana in their heydays to label gigs at Atlantic, Warner and Mercury, Danny Goldberg has…
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You’re On Your Own
There is no brass ring. There is no gold star. All the trappings of making it in the past are gone. Today, you make it in your own mind, and…
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The Bob Lefsetz Podcast: Seymour Stein
I was at a gig last week and a promoter told me young agents had never heard of Bob Sillerman. That was a turning point in the touring business, when…
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Advertising
It’s not 2005 anymore, certainly not 2010, virality is dead, bubbling up from the bottom doesn’t exist, and the big get bigger. For a while there it looked like Madison…
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Op-Ed: Don’t Get Confused By The News
Spotify’s in trouble, its licenses are going to expire! Nicki Minaj produced a tweetstorm about Spotify, claiming the company put the kibosh on her album! Music distribution is mature. The…
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Bob Lefsetz On Aretha (With Responses From The Industry – Toni Tenille, Marhsall Crenshaw, Bruce Allen, Etc.)
“Hey nineteen That’s ‘Retha Franklin She don’t remember the Queen of Soul” That was recorded by Steely Dan in 1980, when Aretha already appeared to be in the rearview mirror.…
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Touring vs. Labels
The script has flipped, record companies no longer drive the business, they get all the press, but the question is not how many streams you have, but how many tickets…
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