The Taylor Swift Snafu
Oh, come on. What next, everybody should be entitled to a new iPhone the day it comes out? Every automobile in the lineup at sticker price with no wait? Oh,…
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The Bob Lefsetz Podcast: Linda Ronstadt
Linda Ronstadt has a new book, “Feels Like Home,” about the Sonoran Borderlands where she grew up. We talk about her youth, Lucy’s El Adobe, meeting musicians and making records,…
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Everything Is A Cult
The casual listener is dead. The best analogy is television. Boomers will remember when you watched what was on, even changing channels was a big deal, you had to get…
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The Bob Lefsetz Podcast: AOL Co-Founder Steve Case
AOL cofounder Steve Case has a new book entitled “The Rise of the Rest” about the startup scene outside Silicon Valley, New York and Boston. We discuss startup culture, the…
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The R&RHOF Induction Ceremony
The highlight was John Mellencamp, but I’ll get to that. After some lighthearted remarks by John Sykes, an unrecognizable man hit the stage to over-testify about Duran Duran. Wearing a…
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The Bob Lefsetz Podcast: Author W. David Marx
David Marx is the author of the new book: “Status and Culture: How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant Change.” He posits the dearth…
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The Jann Wenner Autobiography
“Like a Rolling Stone: A Memoir” This is a terrible book. At the end, Wenner thanks all his insider readers, you know, the friends that helped him write the book.…
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The Bob Lefsetz Podcast: David Paich
David Paich is the primary songwriter, keyboardist and a vocalist in Toto. He also co-wrote Boz Scaggs’s “Lowdown” and “Lido Shuffle,” and worked on Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” and too many…
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Zach Bryan At The Wiltern
It was a phenomenon. I haven’t seen anything like this EVER! Maybe the initial Taylor Swift tours, but that appealed to a different demo, the arena was full of young…
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