The Future According to Lefsetz

February 28th, 2011

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The future of the music industry is on everyone’s lips these days, and with tech-driven changes, the future includes the present.  A case in point is the introduction of Thunderbolt, a conduit that dwarfs USB and Firewire, pushing the debate of file sharing closer to the reality of a single monthly charge for all music and movie downloads.

So you might want to subscribe to “The Lefsetz Letter”, a daily email publication by Bob Lefsetz, who rants about the state of the music business.  Though sometimes wandering into more general critiques of pop culture, Lefsetz doesn’t mince words in his verdicts on Bieber through Beyonce, Ga-Ga to classic rock dinosaurs and the industry players who facilitate them.  It’s integrity versus greed, fresh vision versus stale smells in Lefsetz’s view.

He seems to have the ear of some major industry figures, whose responses appear in Lefsetz’s weekly “Mail Bag”, making him the unofficial referee of the biz.  An archive of past topics is handy, too.

You might not agree with all his pronouncements; I certainly don’t.  But for an informative, incisive perspective on the music scene, here it is:  http://www.lefsetz.com/lists/?p=subscribe&id+1