First we had the Swifties, convinced via Taylor’s endless Easter eggs that she was going to play the Super Bowl. You don’t need to be too sophisticated to know that she’s off-cycle, and that would never happen. To start from nothing, create a whole new show, rehearse it…exactly why? She’s got nothing to promote! And […]

FX/Hulu trailer: I was mesmerized for about half an hour, and then… We’d been unable to find a satisfying series. Well, we watched “The Empress,” which is an interesting Netflix show about the Habsburg dynasty and the magical Empress Elisabeth married to the young Emperor Franz… I was trying to remember some of the facts […]

A must-listen! Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jon-batiste/id1316200737?i=1000729683233 https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/9ff4fb19-54d4-41ae-ae7a-8a6f8d3dafa8/episodes/80ce0633-5e67-4a18-b1d0-ad3cf9ec797e/the-bob-lefsetz-podcast-jon-batiste

He didn’t want to repeat himself. I know people my age who are doing the exact same thing in the music business they were doing forty years ago, the only thing that’s changed is the names. The acts come and go, they remain. Paid well, but isn’t it soul-crushing? Speaking of soul-crushing… What is it […]