It’s not about the album. It’s not even about Spotify, et al. It’s about social media. And somehow the algorithm didn’t serve it up to me and every story about him didn’t mention this. I’ve got to give the guy credit. He broke through doing it the newfangled way. Going direct to the customer with […]

Tune in Saturday March 8th to Faction Talk, channel 103, at 4 PM East, 1 PM West. If you miss the episode, you can hear it on demand on the SiriusXM app. Search: Lefsetz

“Dreams I’ll Never See”: https://www.tiktok.com/@teeharpo/video/7470338734437797150?_r=1&_t=ZT-8uTftkeGuqs 1 You couldn’t get that rich. Then again, rich was relative. You formed a band because you loved the music. Continued to play because the money was good and it kept you from the assembly line and boring professional jobs. You were living an alternative lifestyle. Sleeping until noon. But […]

The audience is hipper than the musicians. The internet not only broke news, it broke music. First came the loss of ubiquity. You just can’t reach everybody. Kind of like the Democrats complaining that the Republicans are not reading the “New York Times.” THEY HAVE ALTERNATIVES! Ditto on cable news, never mind the endless niches […]