They were photogenic, they were talented and they were the centrifugal point where every thing about the Laurel Canyon era coalesced around. The Mamas and the Papas were the hosts to the epicenter of mid 60s rock n roll. While much of there music wasn’t as transcendent as the movement they birthed, they are nevertheless style and sound icons […]
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If you haven’t noticed a lot of activity on our pages lately, that doesn’t mean that we haven’t been active. Our studios have moved from high in the hills of Los Angeles to the valleys of Coachella and we haven’t had the chance to regroup. However, as the new year (new decade? I am never sure how decades change) moves […]
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CNN Films November 12th, 2019 CNN FILMS Debuts Critics’ Choice Documentary Award Winner ‘LINDA RONSTADT: The Sound of My Voice’ on New Year’s Day The Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman Documentary Broadcasts 9:00pm ET&PT Linda Ronstadt soared to the top of the music scene in the late 1960s, and remained there for nearly five decades. Her cross-genre songbook packed arenas, racked up […]
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Sound Cloud Sunday September 1, 2019 We rip another page off the calendar as we head into the winter of our discontent. The world gets shittier by the day and the hopes that we get a new president by 2021 (which still seems like a shit-ton of time off) ebbs and flows. Yet, the music continues, here at Laurel Canyon […]
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We are literally going back to the garden, on “Back To The Garden” for the entire month of August. Every Saturday and Sunday 7a-10am PST on Laurel Canyon Radio we’ll be playing highlights and features from the Woodstock concert celebrating its 50th anniversary this week. Relive (or live for the first time) the brown acid moments and more weekend mornings […]
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Woodstock Remembered: David Fricke on Minor Epiphanies and Momentary Bummers The Woodstock Music and Art Fair held on Max Yasgur’s 600-acre farm was a spectacular accident, an improbable collision of events, energies, and expectations propelled by the promise of rock & roll By DAVID FRICKE Whenever someone asks me what it was like to be at Woodstock, the first thing that […]
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Laurel Canyon Radio took our van out on the road and puttered up to Santa Fe, New Mexico for fun, games, relaxation and musical inspiration and we met the delightful singer/songwriter Johnny Blueheart. We sat down for an interview at his cabin at Ghost Ranch (an amazing artist colony/retreat center/former home to Georgia O’Keefe) up in Abiquiu New Mexico and […]
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Sound Cloud Sunday July 28, 2019 Teskey Brothers – So Caught Up Hometown: Melbourne, Australia Album: From their second album “Run Home Slow” on Glass Note Records. Review Snippet: Website: Originally from Victoria, Australia, the Teskey Brothers – made up of brothers Josh and Sam Teskey and their friends Brendon Love and Liam Gough – began playing together […]
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Sound Cloud Sunday July 7, 2019 Summertime and the living is easy. Welcome to another edition of Sound Cloud Sunday where we waste no time unearthing another treasure trove of independent music from around the globe. The sounds are fresh and yet reminiscent of our Laurel Canyon vibe that echoes and continues to influence what’s left of rock n roll, […]
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