Archive for the 'Music Business' Category


Beats Buys MOG

Only one will win. There’s one Amazon, one Facebook, one Twitter and there will be one streaming music service. Will it be MOG? Spotify has problems. It sounds crummy and uptake amongst kids is close to nonexistent. David Hyman will claim MOG sounds superior. That more tracks stream at 320 kbps, and the codec is […]

The YouTube Article

"On YouTube, Amateur Is the New Pro" They pay. That’s the number one question I get, HOW DO I GET PAID? Actually, that’s two questions in one. How do you, the reader, get paid and secondarily, how do I, Bob Lefsetz, get paid. I’m not gonna answer the second. But I will say power is […]

Dukes Of September At The Gibson

Boz Scaggs hit it so far out of the park with Teddy Pendergrass’s "Love T.K.O." I could not help but swoon, even though I don’t think I’ve ever heard the song before. I had to ask the African-American woman sitting next to me the title, she was writing everything down. She said it was by […]

Independent Album Chart-Week Ending 6/24/12

1. Smashing Pumpkins "Oceania" Sales this week: 53,396DebutOverall rank: 4 He’s not warm and fuzzy. But his generation, which came of age in the nineties, respects him. Considered to be a return to form, it appears Billy Corgan is here to stay. Furthermore, this shows the power of brand names. Doesn’t matter who’s in the […]