Archive for 2025/07


Dennis McNally-This Week’s Podcast

Long time publicist for the Grateful Dead Dennis McNally has a new book “The Last Great Dream: How Bohemians Became Hippies and Created the Sixties.” We talk about San Francisco, the Dead and more! Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dennis-mcnally/id1316200737?i=1000720007210 https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/9ff4fb19-54d4-41ae-ae7a-8a6f8d3dafa8/episodes/6bdf3584-e777-415b-99e7-cdd632db2016/the-bob-lefsetz-podcast-dennis-mcnally

What Is The Truth?

This article positively blew my mind, stopped me in my tracks, caused me to exclaim. I’m writing about it from a news analysis point of view. Something we should all be capable of, but too many refuse to do…that’s gathering all the information one can and then trying to divine the truth. It’s very easy […]

Mailbag

Subject: Re: Passion/Viewpoint/Craft I’ve been saying for the past couple of years, the audience doesn’t want perfection, they want CONNECTION. Perfection is really impressive — for about 5 minutes. Then you want to know, “Yeah, but what’s that got to do with me?” Tom Rush www.TomRush.com ___________________________________ Re: Spotify’s Numbers My coworker and I were having […]

Spotify’s Numbers

If you read the music business press yesterday’s Spotify numbers are a step in the wrong direction, if not a veritable disaster, a wake-up call. But if you read the business press… “Spotify’s Crown Lies Heavy, but It’s Still the Streaming King – Latest results trip up expensive stock, but the company still has growth […]