Tune in Saturday April 27th to Faction Talk, channel 103, at 4 PM East, 1 PM West. If you miss the episode, you can hear it on demand on the SiriusXM app. Search: Lefsetz ..read more

1 He produced “Give It Up.” And on Saturday, he died. I heard about Bonnie Raitt from the son of one of my mother’s college friends. My mother went to a reunion, and after a couple of decades of no contact, she reconnected with her B.U. buddies and in this case, they came to Vermont ..read more

Steve Poltz is a national treasure. Known for co-writing “You Were Meant for Me” with Jewel, Poltz is one exposure away from becoming a ubiquitous star. You’ll be riveted and entertained from the very beginning. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/steve-poltz/id1316200737?i=1000653566319 https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/9ff4fb19-54d4-41ae-ae7a-8a6f8d3dafa8/episodes/be2b3778-117d-4b18-82a5-5bd7f174477b/the-bob-lefsetz-podcast-steve-poltz ..read more

They’re playing Madison Square Garden. The first thing I do when a band I’ve never heard of, or only know the name of, has outsized success is check the Spotify numbers. “Apocalypse” has 1,233,307237 streams. How did this happen? Well that’s when you go to Wikipedia. This is what I read about “Apocalypse” while I ..read more

A long overdue column. Long on the cusp of sensory overload, Taylor’s carpet bombing marketing started with the massive Eras Tour which, amazingly, still has seven months to go—with no surcease on the horizon. Let’s review:1). The re-recording of old catalogue has been a complete artistic failure. Cynically marketed as an “artist rights” triumph, it ..read more

“Taylor Swift Has Given Fans a Lot. Is It Finally Too Much? – Swift has been inescapable over the last year. With the release of ‘The Tortured Poets Department,’ her latest (very long) album, some seem to finally be feeling fatigued.” Free link: https://shorturl.at/ejVYZ Gregg said he hadn’t heard anything about Harry Styles recently, was ..read more

Make reservations. Andrew Zimmern and David Kuller recommended the restaurant Roscioli. Andrew wrote “you’d be hard-pressed to find a better griciathan than at Roscioli.” Honestly, I had to look up “griciathan.” Turns out it’s pasta with three ingredients: Guanciale (pork cheek), pepper and Pecorino Romano cheese, and that appealed to me. So we went downstairs ..read more

Tune in Saturday April 20th to Faction Talk, channel 103, at 4 PM East, 1 PM West. If you miss the episode, you can hear it on demand on the SiriusXM app. Search: Lefsetz ..read more

You don’t do it through publicity, you do it through the work. In the old days, print publicity was the introduction, now there’s so much in the pipeline that even if it’s seen, it’s not acted upon, and that is the ultimate goal, consumption of the music, that’s where a career begins. You’re best getting ..read more

Yes, quite the contrast to Coachella, then again back in the day the audience was not the show. Did you hear they referred to the desert confab as the “Influencer Olympics”? That’s how much the game has changed. The acts are secondary to the experience. The penumbra trumps the music…i.e. the food and lifestyle events ..read more