Archive for 2023/09


Aaron Neville-This Week’s Podcast

Aaron Neville has a new autobiography, “Tell It Like It Is,” wherein he is brutally honest about his life…his drug use, his joyriding, his incarceration and his ultimate musical triumph. We delve into the highlights of Aaron’s life here. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/aaron-neville/id1316200737?i=1000627843448 https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/9ff4fb19-54d4-41ae-ae7a-8a6f8d3dafa8/episodes/a8ac2b9c-1dcd-4662-a7a3-3afbfef0e729/the-bob-lefsetz-podcast-aaron-neville

VMA Ratings Up!

“After a couple of relatively lean years for on-air viewing, the MTV Video Music Awards bounced back some on Tuesday. Preliminary Nielsen ratings have the show drawing 865,000 viewers on MTV, a 37 percent jump from the early numbers for the 2022 VMAs.” https://tinyurl.com/msfm6afw What a joke. The local TikTok influencer in your backyard gets more than […]

Silk

Preview: https://tinyurl.com/4enp5ktc This is the show I was talking about, you know, the one from the BBC, on Amazon Prime. My number one criterion for a streaming series is that it holds my attention, that my mind doesn’t wander, that I’m immersed in it. And “Silk” delivered on this premise. And I heartily recommend it. […]

Angry

Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/4v92pkwh It’s catchy, but it makes me miss Charlie. The man with the simple kit who seemed to fade into the background but ultimately was the underpinning, the driving force of the Stones. The driving beat here is the antithesis of what Charlie would play. It’s mechanical, soulless, like too much of today’s made […]