Everybody can’t do everything. My inbox is littered with people saying not to use their name. As if the average citizen in New Jersey has to worry about Trump’s revenge. (Then again, maybe they do…) They call this a “chilling effect.” Bedrock in Constitutional law. Something might look benign on the surface, but have the […]

1 Where were you the first time you heard “More Than a Feeling”? Probably driving around in your car listening to FM radio. This was 1976, the first Ramones LP came out that year, but it took decades for it to go gold. The Stones were changing guitarists. McCartney had followed up 1973’s “Band on […]

Completion of playlists from previous shows. Tune in Saturday December 20th to Faction Talk, channel 103, at 4 PM East, 1 PM West. If you miss the episode, you can hear it on demand on the SiriusXM app. Search: Lefsetz

This just feels wrong. Most Americans were not alive when JFK was assassinated. One can argue that’s when the sixties began. That’s when the generations split. The fifties were somnambulant, even the hipsters had crew cuts. By time the sixties arrived, there were pockets of experimentation, the roots of new musical acts that would triumph […]