Archive for the 'The Media' Category


Alison Ellwood-This Week’s Podcast

Documentary filmmaker Alison Ellwood’s most recent project is “Boy George & Culture Club.” Prior to that she directed “History of the Eagles,” “The Go-Go’s,” “Laurel Canyon”… Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/alison-ellwood/id1316200737?i=1000780220185 https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/9ff4fb19-54d4-41ae-ae7a-8a6f8d3dafa8/episodes/ad996cc3-b639-465a-a15b-ceabb09aa515/the-bob-lefsetz-podcast-alison-ellwood

David Beard-This Week’s Podcast

David Beard is the author of the revealing new book “All Summer Long: Conversations with The Beach Boys from Surfin’ to SMiLE.” Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/david-beard/id1316200737?i=1000779088456 https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/9ff4fb19-54d4-41ae-ae7a-8a6f8d3dafa8/episodes/42fe606a-3986-480f-8c35-ecfeeb3605ee/the-bob-lefsetz-podcast-david-beard

CNN

Why are oldsters and Hollywood fighting a passé war? At least CNN does more reporting than Fox, even MS Now, but the truth is hardly anyone is watching and the outlet, like its two political competitors, is basically a hotbed of analysis and argument which younger generations refuse to engage with. CNN reaches 711,000 primetime […]

An Audience First World

Business is good, but it’s meaningless. You can look at the concert grosses and be stunned that this many people are paying this much money to go see these acts, but really, it’s about the audience, not the performers. Now in the sixties, venues had seats. Even clubs. Into the seventies too. And then they […]