Archive for the 'The Media' Category


The Allee Willis Movie

“The World According to Allee Willis” trailer: https://rb.gy/8onh15 This is a fantastic film. Of course I know who Allee Willis was. But I never met her, she was never my friend, I certainly never went to any of her parties. But people would talk about her. And what they constantly conveyed was that she was […]

Apple Music’s Per Stream Payment

“Appleā€™s coziness with musicians, which it facilitates in part by paying a higher royalty rate per stream than Spotify, has always been crucial to its brand” From: “Why Zane Lowe and Apple Music are betting on live radio in an on-demand era” “Los Angeles Times”: https://shorturl.at/C1kEJ Makes me crazy when the mainstream media gets it […]

Joe Boyd-This Week’s Podcast

He did the sound at Newport when Dylan went electric. He produced Nick Drake and Richard Thompson and many more. This is the story of someone who lived his life in the music business, left his mark and survived to tell the story. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/joe-boyd/id1316200737?i=1000684220148       https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/9ff4fb19-54d4-41ae-ae7a-8a6f8d3dafa8/episodes/af4b4cf9-a26a-4b2a-8caf-90dad4e94d5d/the-bob-lefsetz-podcast-joe-boyd

Me In The Wall Street Journal

Free link: https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-man-who-was-so-mean-to-taylor-swift-music-lefsetz-5832129a?st=GQ821t&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink Normally I don’t believe in self-hype. Then again, I’ve gotten a number of requests for the link, which is behind a paywall…and when am I going to ring the bell like this again anyway! You may have already seen/read this, as it went live online on December 27th. But I wanted to […]