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Don Was-This Week’s Podcast

From Was Not Was to Bonnie Raitt to the Rolling Stones AND MORE! You’ll dig this! Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/don-was/id1316200737?i=1000716622758       https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/9ff4fb19-54d4-41ae-ae7a-8a6f8d3dafa8/episodes/ae01c956-99be-4aed-8698-d8403ce55178/the-bob-lefsetz-podcast-don-was

The Downtown/Universal Deal

It’s all about the data. The major labels blew the internet. If they didn’t have their catalogs, they’d be moribund enterprises, akin to other titans of the last century like MTV and terrestrial radio stations. The labels were so invested in the old model that they couldn’t adapt to the new. And when they finally […]

Summer Of ’75-SiriusXM This Week

Tune in Saturday July 5th 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

You Can’t Reach Everybody

And everybody does not know. If everybody in the U.S. watched Sunday night’s John Oliver show, the Big Beautiful Bill would be dead on arrival. But almost no one does. In case you’re not a viewer of this HBO institution, once or twice a season John Oliver pulls a stunt. Recently, he offered to rebrand […]