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Every Tuesday and Thursday, former Warner Bros. Records executive and industry insider Stan Cornyn ruminates on the past, present, and future of the music business. 1966-1967 By 1966, “pop” music had reached a crossroads. One road ahead would remain warm...

Get Ten Years After: Recorded Live Get Robin Trower - State to State: Live Across America 1974-1980 Get UFO - Hot N Live: Chrysalis Live Anthology 1974 - 1983 Three New Collections From Influential British Artists Feature Unreleased Live Performances...

On this day in 2000, Madonna's "MUSIC" started its second week run at #1 on the UK album charts. It was the sensational singer's seventh UK #1 album. Enjoy the album's first single "Music."

On this day in 2001, "Can't Get You Out Of My Head" by Kylie Minogue started its 5 week run at #1 on the UK singles chart. Enjoy the Australian singer's 6th #1 single, which was also charted at #1...

It only makes sense for The Replacements (The Replacements!) to have played their first U.S. show in 22 years at Riot Fest, the punk festival that graduated from the Chicago clubs and celebrated its second year in Humboldt Park by...

Yes' TORMATO is 35 years old today. The album's most famous song, “Don't Kill The Whale,” remains a timely caution...

By time word got to America, there were already two Graham Parker albums. The debut, "Howlin' Wind" and the follow-up, "Heat Treatment." The cognoscenti will say "Howlin' Wind" was the best. That it had the best songs. "White Honey," "Nothin's...

How ‘bout them guitars? Make a rich man tremble and a poor man weep. This week on the dais we have some of my favorite guitarists, including Robby Krieger, Johnny Marr, Ry Cooder, Bob Stinson & Nile Rodgers. Holla! ABOUT...

On August 27, 1972, fresh off their now-legendary European tour, the Grateful Dead traveled to Veneta, OR and reunited with the Merry Pranksters for a common cause – to throw a benefit concert for the Kesey family’s Springfield Creamery. A...