Archive for the 'Music Business' Category


Worst Career Move-SiriusXM This Week

Bill Squier’s pink video? Peter Frampton’s “I’m In You”? David Lee Roth leaving Van Halen? Or… “Lefsetz Live,” Tuesday June 18th, on Volume 106, 7 PM East, 4 PM West. Phone #: 844-6-VOLUME, 844-686-5863 Twitter: @lefsetz Hear the episode live on SiriusXM VOLUME: HearLefsetzLive If you miss the episode, you can hear it on demand […]

That Was The Week That Was

This was the week Elizabeth Warren’s candidacy was taken seriously and Donald Trump lost all credibility. And “Old Town Road” continued to triumph in the music sphere, because it’s a fad driven by social media and that’s how far we’ve sunk these days. It comes down to substance. And experience. The entertainment business believes it’s […]

The Universal Fire

“The Day the Music Burned” Artists should own their masters. Executives come and go, the tracks they’re in custody of are forever. In other words, acts care more about their material than any executive, IT’S THEIR LIFE’S WORK! Now in the book publishing world the author owns the copyright, even if the book is a […]

Counting Sales (& Bundles!)

Ben Sisario: A Billboard No. 1 Is at Stake, So Here’s an Album With Your Taylor Swift Hoodie Counting CD and track sales is like toting up the number of feature phone purchases. We live in an era of streaming and smartphones, why does the music industry insist on holding on to the past? This […]