Archive for the 'Music Business' Category


The Kesha/Dr. Luke Story

“What really happened between Kesha and Dr. Luke”: https://tinyurl.com/2s47yjmc This is the “Hit Men” of its day. But nobody seems to know this, because nobody seems to have read it, and you can’t unless you subscribe to the “Los Angeles Times,” which nobody seems to do anymore, the paper having shrunk itself down to near […]

Robbie Robertson-SiriusXM This Week

Tune in Saturday August 12th to Faction Talk, channel 103, at 4 PM East, 1 PM West. Phone #: 844-686-5863 Twitter: @lefsetz If you miss the episode, you can hear it on demand on the SiriusXM app. Search: Lefsetz

Lucinda Williams At The Ford

She had a white hot band. The music business is still not completely up to speed post-covid. What I mean is there are not as many lunches, as many hangs, as there were pre-pandemic. Which means I’m still at home a bunch, and I don’t like it. Sure, I like to read my books and […]

The Music Is Not Enough

You’ve got to have an identity. And around that identity you build culture. And when people adhere to your identity, buy into your culture, you have a cult. And then you can sustain, which is what the music business is all about. The money’s in the long term. That’s the streaming paradigm. It’s not what […]