Archive for the 'The Music' Category


Herb Alpert & the TJB At The Dolby Theatre

The sixties weren’t only the Beatles and Vietnam. I was reminded of this on Saturday night. Who didn’t own “Whipped Cream & Other Delights”? Who didn’t like Herb Alpert? The aforementioned Beatles triumphed alongside the Southern California trumpeter, but a dividing line between the two was not there. Herb was not part of what came […]

More Dark Songs-SiriusXM This Week

Tune in Saturday November 15th to Faction Talk, channel 103, at 4 PM East, 1 PM West. Phone #: 844-686-5863 If you miss the episode, you can hear it on demand on the SiriusXM app. Search: Lefsetz

Rosalía’s “Lux”

What kind of crazy f*cked up world do we live in where the most adventurous, most innovative album of the year is made by a Spanish artist singing in a multitude of foreign languages? One in which everybody in music seems to be going in one direction, doing their best to distill their work to […]

The Rock Hall Ceremony

1 “I’m gonna add some bottom So that the dancers just won’t hide” Awards shows never run on schedule. Even when they’re taped for TV. There are stops and starts. After all, it’s all about what the home viewer sees on their flat screen. But that was not the case last night. The show started […]