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History Of Steve Winwood Part 2-SiriusXM This Week

Tune in today, Tuesday September 3rd, to Volume 106, 7 PM East, 4 PM West. Phone #: 844-6-VOLUME, 844-686-5863 Twitter: @lefsetz or @siriusxmvolume/#lefsetzlive Hear the episode live on SiriusXM VOLUME: HearLefsetzLive If you miss the episode, you can hear it on demand on the SiriusXM app: LefsetzLive

Swift Sales

She didn’t hit a million. But nobody other than Taylor herself seemed to think that was possible. You see the paradigm has shifted, now it’s all about streaming, i.e. consumption, i.e. listening, and Nielsen and the labels have not come up with a way to measure this to their satisfaction. You see if you can’t […]

Bryan Ferry At The Greek

It was incredible. If live music were always this good, I’d go every night! Now this was an older hipster crowd, who knew every lick from way back when and came to pay fealty to Bryan and hear the tunes once again. This was not the Stones crew, down and dirtier, this was people with […]

VMA Ratings Hit An All Time Low

VMAs Hit All-Time Ratings Low for 3rd Straight Year The biggest winner Monday night? SEBASTIAN MANISCALCO! No one saw his tone-deaf monologue panned in every publication known to man. And the truth is, his audience agrees with him, millennials/Gen-Z are wankers. But the millennials/Gen-Z don’t care. Welcome to 2019, where there is no mass audience, […]