Live Nation Wants Artists to Take Pay Cuts and Cancelation Burdens for Shows in 2021 Never EVER forget that this business runs on talent. Without the talent, there’s nothing to sell. And talent is not fungible, except maybe in the case of the festival, which I will address below. This is not the first time […]

Show Playlist: Spotify Pandora Tune in today June 16th, to Volume 106, 7 PM East, 4 PM West. Hear the episode live on SiriusXM VOLUME: HearLefsetzLive If you miss the episode, you can hear it on demand on the SiriusXM app: LefsetzLive

It’s Napster. What do we know about Napster? It happened as a result of technological change. Same deal here, but instead of high speed connections, it’s smartphone cameras. In the late nineties and early 2000s, only college students had high speed connections. The public came along later. Same deal with smartphones. Sure, some had them […]

Everyday People 1 There’s a joy in playing music. We were inspired to buy electric guitars after seeing the Beatles on “Ed Sullivan,” but we’d been struggling with acoustics for a long time before that. In an era where music was not plentiful, just a click away, you had to make your own. A piano […]