East West Records
Parent company	Warner Music Group
Founded	1955
Distributing label	East West Records (US) WEA (Outside the US)
Genre	Rock
Country of origin	US
Official website	Official site of East West Records

East West Records is an American record label, owned by Warner Music Group, and operates under WMG's Independent Label Group. Warner Music Group (WMG is the third-largest of the "big four" major record labels, the others being Sony BMG, EMI, and Universal Warner Music Group (WMG is the third-largest of the "big four" major record labels, the others being Sony BMG, EMI, and Universal Rock music is a genre of Popular music often though not necessarily employing Electric guitar, Bass guitar, and Drums. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the The United States of America —commonly referred to as the In the Music industry, a record label can be a Brand and a Trademark associated with the Marketing of music recordings and Music Warner Music Group (WMG is the third-largest of the "big four" major record labels, the others being Sony BMG, EMI, and Universal

History

Upon its creation in 1955 by Atlantic Records, the label had one hit with The Kingsmen and went into hibernation until 1990, when Atlantic revamped the imprint as EastWest Records America. Year 1955 ( MCMLV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1955 Gregorian calendar) Atlantic Records ( Atlantic Recording Corporation) is an American Record label best known for its many recordings of Rhythm & blues, Rock The Kingsmen were a 1960s Garage rock / Frat rock band from Portland, Oregon. Year 1990 ( MCMXC) was a Common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar) Atlantic senior VP Sylvia Rhone was appointed Chairman/CEO of the fledgling label. Sylvia Rhone (born March 11 1952 in Philadelphia Pennsylvania began her music career in 1974 with Buddha Records.

Under Rhone's leadership, EastWest shot to mega success with several multiplatinum acts, such as: Simply Red, En Vogue, Pantera, Yo-Yo, Das EFX, Snow, Gerald Levert, AC/DC, Missy Elliott and MC Lyte. Simply Red is an English pop band Their style draws influences from pop, rock, jazz, Lovers rock, and Blue-eyed soul En Vogue is a Grammy nominated American female R&B vocal quartet assembled by music producers Denzil Foster and Thomas McElroy. Pantera was an American heavy metal band from Arlington, Texas, formed by the Abbott brothers Vinnie Paul ( drums) and Yo-Yo (born Yolanda Whittaker on August 4, 1971 in Compton California) is a Grammy nominated American Hardcore Das EFX is an American hip-hop group It consists of emceess Skoob (also known as Books, born William "Willie" Hines Darrin O'Brien (born October 30 1969) known by his stage name Snow, is an award-winning Canadian Reggae Musician from Gerald Levert ( July 13 1966 - November 10 2006) was an American R&B singer AC/DC are an Australian Hard rock band formed in Sydney, Australia in 1973 by brothers Angus and Malcolm Young. Melissa Arnette "Missy" Elliott (born July 1 1971 is a five-time Grammy Award -winning American rapper, singer, Songwriter, and MC Lyte (born Lana Michele Moorer on October 11, 1971 in Brooklyn, New York) is a female rap artist and the EastWest also distributed other imprints, such as: Interscope Records, Motor Jams Records, Mecca Don Records and The Goldmind Inc.

logo designed by Laurence Dunmore Design; used from 1990–2000

In 1991, EastWest merged with its Atlantic sister label Atco Records, briefly calling itself “Atco/Eastwest Records. Interscope Records is an American Record label, owned by Universal Music Group, and operates as one third of UMG's Interscope-Geffen-A&M label The Goldmind Inc is an American Record label founded by hip hop artist Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott. Year 1991 ( MCMXCI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar. Atco Records is an American record label owned by Warner Music Group, currently operating through WMG's Rhino Entertainment. ” The following year, Atco's name was dropped and the company continued to operate under the EastWest name once more. Whilst in the United Kingdom, the brand was applied to many of the WEA artists such as Simply Red, Chris Rea and The Beloved. Simply Red is an English pop band Their style draws influences from pop, rock, jazz, Lovers rock, and Blue-eyed soul Christopher Anton Rea (born 4 March 1951) is a Singer-songwriter from Middlesbrough England, instantly recognisable for his distinctive The Beloved are a British Electronic dance music group. Biography Jon Marsh's original advertisement in the music press

In 1994, Rhone was appointed Chairman and CEO of Atlantic's sister label Elektra Records. This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1994. A chief executive officer ( CEO) or chief executive is typically the highest-ranking corporate officer ( executive) or administrator Elektra Records is a now-dormant American Record label owned by Warner Music Group (WMG and from 2004 on operating under WMG's Atlantic Records At the time, EastWest (along with most of its roster) also broke away from the Atlantic umbrella to continue to operate under Rhone at Elektra.

By the new millennium, budget cuts at Warner Music Group forced Elektra to deactivate EastWest Records, dropping some of its acts while others were shifted over to Elektra itself. In 2004, Time Warner sold Warner Music Group to private investors. "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " Time Warner Inc ( is the world's largest media and entertainment conglomerate, headquartered in New York City. Subsequently, more budget cuts were made, this time resulting in Elektra Records to be absorbed into Atlantic.

In 2005, WMG reactived the East West imprint as an in-house "indie" rock label, which primarily markets and distributes other rock music-based labels. Events January 1 - In most of Europe copyright expired on a number of classic pop and rock-and-roll songs recorded in 1954 and earlier including In Popular music, independent music, often abbreviated as indie, is a term used to describe independence from major commercial record labels and an autonomous Rock music is a genre of Popular music often though not necessarily employing Electric guitar, Bass guitar, and Drums. East West today operates under Warner's Independent Label Group.

External links

• Official page
• Discography of East West singles

See also

• List of record labels