Bob Lefsetz

As previously reported, Amanda Palmer is hard at work preparing her own high-school musical…I am going to be performing in an original play with music titled “WITH THE NEEDLE THAT SINGS IN HER HEART” at lexington high school…

“Yeah, we’re getting really good at mergers and acquisitions at this point, so we’ve had a lot of companies that we’ve acquired and had to integrate…

The Walkmen @ Masonic Temple in December (more by Natasha Ryan)”We live in scary times. Sure, we might wonder how that inane Southern California woman is going to feed fourteen mouths, but what about the family whose breadwinners lost their jobs, and now have not only no money to pay the mortgage, but feed their kids…

“You had to put tickets on sale for JULY? What’s the reason? I don’t even know what I’m doing in FEBRUARY, never mind JULY! But you had to take all that money out of the marketplace, you had to earn all that interest…

The Noise Pop Festival returns in 2008 from February 26 to March 2. Over six nights, Noise Pop 16 will take over the best-loved venues in San Francisco, to host unforgettable performances, The Mountain Goats, The Gutter Twins, Cursive and dozens of other important indie rock, electronic, punk and cutting edge musical artists, transforming the city into an almost week-long celebration of the finest that the underground and not-so-underground has to offer, nationally and locally…

….An act’s worth depends on its fanbase. You have to nurture it, respect people, make them feel they’re along for the ride with you. At these prices, people feel like they’re being held up at gunpoint…

I actually never even heard of Cartel until all this caffeinated-carbonated-beverage-band-in-a-bubble hoopla. I also sort of tried to ignore it until just now – that’s when I posted the fact that this event is happening right here in NYC next month, and for free…