Music Industry Snapshot
LABELS Are doing quite well. The majority of their income comes from subscription services, and subscriptions keep going up. Sure, there has been some churn as a result of Covid-19…
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The Beastie Boys Movie
It’s fantastic. Too bad it’s on Apple TV+. Like I always tell you, distribution is king, and if you want someone to experience your art, you want it to have…
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The Fiona Apple Album
Well, it doesn’t sound like anything else. As a matter of fact, it resembles nothing so much as an early seventies experimentation, when the audience’s ears were open to the…
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Virtual Concerts
Is Coachella about what happens on the stage or off? About the music or the audience? Both. But we’ve been vastly underestimating how important the non-music experience is. I’m not…
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The Bob Lefsetz Podcast: John Watson
John Watson started in A&R at Sony Music and then went on to manage Silverchair, Missy Higgins, Midnight Oil and more. Listen to how a guy from Down Under breaks…
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Kathy Valentine’s Book
She got pregnant at twelve. Do all artists come from a screwed-up background? After all, if you’re loved and complete, what do you have to bitch about? Plenty, but not…
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John Prine
“How the hell can a person go to work in the morning And come home in the evening and have nothing to say” They couldn’t figure out how to make…
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Re: Neil Lasher
Sadly Neil passed away. Daniel Glass __________________________________ Thank you for recognizing the horrible loss of Neil Lasher. He was fine a few weeks ago and now he’s gone A true…
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The Reunification Festival
The live business has already written off 2020. The big acts don’t want to take the risk of cancellation, there are way too many startup costs, to get geared up…
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