Archive for the 'Music Business' Category


Virality Is History

Nothing catches fire anymore. Unless it’s Notre Dame Cathedral. Or to put it another way, we haven’t had that spirit here since 2012, with “Gangnam Style.” Of course there are exceptions, most notably with Mayor Pete. But that was based on substance, and the truth is politics/Washington D.C. is the internet of the era. As […]

History Of The Beach Boys Part Two-SiriusXM This Week

Tune in tomorrow, Tuesday April 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

Nichification

First everybody was gonna have a website, then they were gonna have a blog, then a page on Facebook and now pictures on Instagram. What do all these endeavors have in common? They’re passing fads. Because it was too much work and too few people were paying attention. America is evolving into niches. I’m not […]

BTS On SNL

What kind of crazy, fucked-up world do we live in where a Korean boy band sings to track and blows away every performance on SNL this year? One in which Blackpink has been the highlight of Coachella so far. I mean you want to hate BTS, on principle. It’s manufactured, we’ve seen this movie before. […]