Archive for 2026/04


Prairie Prince-This Week’s Podcast

Drummer for the Tubes, Todd Rundgren and more! Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/prairie-prince/id1316200737?i=1000761790993 https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/9ff4fb19-54d4-41ae-ae7a-8a6f8d3dafa8/episodes/060400d0-3e40-4639-8431-024d360dfc55/the-bob-lefsetz-podcast-prairie-prince

Luminate Year-End Report

Download here: https://luminatedata.com/reports/yearend-music-industry-report-2025/ What surprised me most in this report at first was the biggest hit per decade. When it comes to the sixties, it’s Creedence Clearwater’s “Fortunate Son.” I’m not saying that Creedence was not huge in the sixties, but I would have expected a Beatles song, something different. Now this report says chart […]

Live Nation Loses

So let me see… They put Richard Grenell on the board, they hire behind-the-scenes fixer Mike Davis, who put the knife in the back of Gail Slater, the chief antitrust officer, they even employ Ms. Alternative Facts herself, Kellyanne Conway, and THEY STILL LOSE? This is not a story of Live Nation and Ticketmaster. This […]

Donald Tarlton

This guy was one of a kind. Scratch that… There was a group of concert promoters, who built this business, who had personality, moxie and could tell a story that you’d repeat for the rest of your life! That’s what concert promoters have…stories. It’s not like working at a label, the relationship with the acts […]