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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. 1967’s agreement between Atlantic Records - that it’d be bought by Eliot Hyman’s Warner-7Arts, and...

Inside: Twenty tracks released this year as we prepare to enter the sixth month of 2013 (already?). Stylistically, things continue to be all over the map -- from retro-gazing pop and rock (calling on the past four decades of your...

On this day in 1966, "When A Man Loves A Woman" by Percy Sledge started a two-week streak at #1 on the US singles chart. The song was initially an instrumental with no title or lyrics. Percy was known to...

Not the band, THE ALBUM! Then again, it was the band. The cognoscenti tell you it's all about the first, with "Dear Mr. Fantasy" and those songs other people covered, like "Heaven Is In Your Mind" and "Coloured Rain." But...

On this day in 1970, Grateful Dead performed at "The Hollywood Rock Music Festival" in England, their first outside of US gig. Watch the slideshow video of their performance below. Don't forget to catch their latest release May 1977. Learn...

On this day in 1960, "Cathy's Clown" by the Everly Brothers started a five week run at #1 on the US singles chart. The single ran for another 2 weeks, becoming their biggest and final hit single. Here they are...

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. 7 Arts’ executive in charge of deals – Eliot Hyman -- having met with the...

Have we got the songs? Is a frog’s ass watertight?!? Yes and yes. Gather round the ol’ listenin’ post and hear Judy Collins, Joy Division, Emmylou Harris, Frank Sinatra and a few words from the late, great Ray Manzarek.

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. Mo Ostin kept at his job as head of Warner Bros. Records. His job: keep...