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Wallen’s Grammy Snub

“Morgan Wallen Will Not Submit Latest Album for Grammys Consideration – The country singer became the latest major artist to abandon the awards, declining to enter his chart-topping fourth album, “I’m the Problem,” for the 2026 ceremony.” https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/arts/music/morgan-wallen-grammys.html I’ve got a bug up my ass about the Grammys. It seems the only people who take […]

Martin Porter & David Goggin-This Week’s Podcast

The story of their new book “Buzz Me In: Inside the Record Plant Studios.” Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/david-goggin-martin-porter/id1316200737?i=1000722936461 https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/9ff4fb19-54d4-41ae-ae7a-8a6f8d3dafa8/episodes/b340b055-312e-4b9a-abbc-00beb2fffa88/the-bob-lefsetz-podcast-david-goggin-martin-porter

E-Mail Of The Day

Re: Spotify Global Weekly Top Songs Chart Bob, This letter made me chuckle, because you ain’t wrong. And what Spotify shows for last week unwittingly aligns with what we sell as PHYSICAL copies in an indie record store in St. Louis (Euclid Records). When it comes to sales of FMac Rumours, they should just issue that […]

Fandom

At what point did you give up your fandom for a band…if ever? And what made you become a fan of the band to begin with? Now a band needs a lead singer, a front person, usually a man but it can also be a woman. Look, Linkin Park is now fronted by a woman. […]