Archive for the 'Music Business' Category


Your Favorite Festival-SiriusXM This Week

Tune in tomorrow, Tuesday August 20th, 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

Warren Leads In Iowa

Poll: Elizabeth Warren Jumps Out To Big Lead In The Iowa Caucus There are so many lessons here: 1. Conventional wisdom is oftentimes ignorance. All movements start from the bottom up, and most pundits don’t recognize it, they’re too busy hanging in the club. This is how it always happens in music and how it […]

Peter Shapiro-SiriusXM This Week

Yes, the concert promoter who started with Wetlands, expanded into the Brooklyn Bowl and the Capitol Theatre and… It doesn’t stop there, Peter put together Fare Thee Well and now has Lock’n. Find out how an independent promoter innovates, survives and makes a difference! Tune in tomorrow, Tuesday August 13th, to Volume 106, 7 PM […]

The Lumineers Open The MIssion Ballroom

Strasburg told me the story on Chair 10. Used to be a dedicated reader could tell what was going on, a subscription to “Billboard” was enough. Not anymore. There’s no music publication that will hip you to the business. Today you’ve got to know the people, and that’s a damn hard thing to do, because […]