Tweeter by Nancy Ohanian"Trump," wrote Tony Romm and Allyson Chiu at the Washington Post yesterday, "took to Twitter early Friday to condemn Minneapolis demonstrators as 'THUGS,' threaten military intervention and suggest it could lead to 'shooting,' prompting the social-media company to take the unprecedented step of
Yesterday, in his often excoriating music business newsletter, Bob Lefsetz set his sites on... oligarchs in politics. "You’ve got to be rich," he wrote. "And it always comes down to who you know." That could've easily been the opening lines about a music business post.
Want to get the pulse of the music business? That's what Bob Lefsetz's newsletter does. Tonight's guest post is one he did for his blog over the weekend: Buttigieg, which is the alternative name many people call Mayo Pete. He began with a link to a New York Times piece: Buttigieg Struggles to Square Transparency With Lack of Disclosure on Consulting.
Smashing Pumpkins lead singer Billy Corgan is a lot more thoughtful and insightful than many musicians. CNBC’s Squawk Alley had him on for a discussion of the music business a few days ago. "The music business," he explained, "is mostly run by feckless idiots, who do not subscribe to the normal tenets of capitalism, which, when they do, the business tends to work out well. Stars rise to the top; everybody benefits.
