Don’t Bring Me Down
I still can’t believe Tom Petty’s dead. I’ve been living in the aughts. I decided to go to my bootleg site, where I used to live fifteen years ago, after…
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The Rich Will Get Richer
This is what streaming has wrought. The new income has lifted all boats, but the ones of stars much higher than those of the hoi polloi. Used to be a…
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The United States Of Christmas
And the Trumpers are saying the holiday’s been stolen. If you look at the Spotify US Top Fifty your eyes will bug out. Nine of the top ten are Christmas…
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How Hip-Hop Triumphed
By Embracing Streaming. That’s right, “you cannot get ahead if you stay behind“. While other formats railed against payouts, declaring that music had “value,” while they bitched about everything from…
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Evacuation
Should I stay or should I go? That’s what went through my head after I gained consciousness. Felice was shaking me, I’d been up so late, I’d ultimately taken a…
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Op-Ed: The Grammy Nominations – By Bob Lefsetz
This is not about diversity, this is about a CHANGING OF THE GUARD! The Grammys have been out of touch since day one. They missed the Beatles and they missed…
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Joe Walsh’s 70th Birthday Party
Life’s been good to me so far. I first saw the James Gang at Staples High School, in Westport, Connecticut, in the spring of 1970, they were opening for Rhinoceros, and…
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No Streaming Taylor
“Taylor Swift Will Keep New Album From Streaming For A Week”: bloom.bg/2hlrGCn This is about perception. The goal is to get as big a sales number as possible and then…
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musical.ly
I finally downloaded the app (and live.ly too!) It was the article in today’s WSJ. magazine. Let me see, can you access this without a subscription? Unfortunately you can’t, welcome…
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The Future Of Major Labels
They are going to pay more and own less but they are not going away. Bob Lefsetz, Santa Monica-based industry legend, is the author of the e-mail newsletter, “The Lefsetz…
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