Archive for the 'Live Shows' Category


Americanafest Salute To Paul Simon At The Troubadour

Only in Los Angeles. It was the anti-Spotify Top 50. Working musicians, most sans mainstream fame, all on the same stage performing the songs of one of America’s most revered songwriters. Or to paraphrase Max Yasgur, it was five hundred people getting together for three hours of fun and music and nothing but fun and […]

Musicares

“I wake up in the morning and I raise my weary head I’ve got an old coat for a pillow and the earth was last night’s bed” People forget that Jeff Beck played the guitar on “Blaze of Glory,” if they even knew it in the first place. It was the height of Jovimania. Not […]

TikTok/Universal

This is just about a number. Don’t get your knickers in a twist. All this discussion about distribution overshadows the real story in the business today, which is the music itself. We are in a crisis. All the major media is focusing on the Grammy awards when in truth there should be touring awards. The […]

Louis Messina-This Week’s Podcast

Concert promoter for Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran, George Strait, Kenny Chesney, Eric Church, the Lumineers… https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/louis-messina/id1316200737?i=1000642896616 https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/9ff4fb19-54d4-41ae-ae7a-8a6f8d3dafa8/episodes/7e512285-657f-4d1a-bb2d-82d7e29a095c/the-bob-lefsetz-podcast-louis-messina