On this day in 1994, Pete Rock and CL Smooth via Elektra Records dropped their second album, The Main Ingredient, thirty years ago today.

Brad Brooks, the singer in late MC5 guitarist Wayne Kramer's "reanimation" of the revolutionary proto-punk band, recently ...

Warner Music Group Corp. ("Warner Music Group” or "WMG”) today announced that its Board of Directors declared a regular quarterly cash dividend of $0.18 per share on WMG's Class A Common Stock and ...

We explore two alleged (and equally creepy) stories of Janis Joplin having to teach Jim Morrison a lesson with a glass bottle ...

“When we signed with Elektra, we had already sold hundreds of thousands of records. The biggest friction we had with them initially was that we were already ‘too developed’ as an ac ...

Combining art rock and a sense of the absurd, They Might Be Giants has never fit comfortably into a musical genre. From their ...

"I was like, 'No, we're not doing any of that. This is the song.'" Warner Music Nashville / Elektra Records It's taken years of hustle for him to get here. Out of high school, Zimmerman built gas ...

Singer/songwriter James Douglas Morrison was an icon in life who became a modern-day myth after his shocking death at the age of 27.

The message of Luther Vandross’ music was always about love. This sentiment feels especially important in 2024 when we’re used to hearing crass and vulgar music. Not to be a hypocrite—I enjoy some of ...

And he joined 3rd Bass on tour with funky jesters Digital Underground and battle rhymer Big Daddy Kane, eventually landing a deal with Elektra Records. That deal proved Faustian when the label dropped ...

At that time, her band’s A&R man at Geffen Records, Tom Zutaut, thought he’d seen it all, having previously signed Mötley Crüe to Elektra and Guns N’ Roses to Geffen. But after Geffen had delayed the ...

We recently compiled a list of the 8 Best Music Stocks to Buy According to Hedge Funds. In this article, we are going to take ...