How Pink Floyd Made ‘Dark Side of the Moon’ BY SPECIAL NEWSWEEK EDITON 7/19/15 AT 3:57 PM “Dark Side of the Moon” represented a leap forward for the band both sonically and lyrically. EVERETT COLLECTION FILED UNDER: Culture, Pink Floyd, Rock and Roll, Music Industry, 50 years later In 1973, Pink Floyd were looking to record an album that would […]
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This exhibit, currently at the Skirball Cultural Center here in Los Angeles, is a great opportunity to experience an era of music and concert promotion that really spoke to the shared experience of listening to eclectic music. Sure it laid the groundwork for all things Coachella and then some, but this is when there was one stage and you paid […]
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From Rolling Stone Magazine In Laurel Canyon musical lore, Seventies singer-songwriter Ned Doheny’s name registers as a blip compared to Joni Mitchell, David Crosby and the Eagles. Chicago reissue label Numero Group — whose stellar past compilations have resurrected artists and regional scenes — hopes to change that with the recently released compilation Separate Oceans. The career retrospective culls Doheny’s album cuts — […]
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Members of rock band Canned Heat shared a house on Lookout Mountain Avenue in the Laurel Canyon area of Los Angeles, right next door to Joni Mitchell’s place—until it burned down in 1969. Later that year the charred structure served as the setting for the cover of Steppenwolf’s At Your Birthday Party, shot by photographer Henry Diltz and designed by […]
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New Tracks On Laurel Canyon Radio Week of July 14 “Let Me Go” – Pig Pen Theatre Company These groovy fellas (they’re a theatre company AND a band) have recently been featured with the Mumfords on the Gentlemen of the Road Tour and will make their screen debut in the summer Meryl Streep-as-rocker-chick flick […]
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New Tracks on Laurel Canyon Radio – Week of July 8 So much is made in the media lately about the search for the perfect summer song. In a recent Entertainment Weekly article, they looked back on topics of songs in an attempt to parse the formula as to what makes a perfect summer song. Oh, Entertainment Weekly, have you […]
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Rusty Truck, rock photographer Marc Seliger’s “side project” is one of the best so-called “revivalist bands” of the crisp, clean sound of the latter Laurel Canyon era. On Rusty Truck’s second (and sadly still only other album, the sadly underappreciated Kicker Town) the band after being stealthily produced by the likes of Lenny Kravitz and Jakob Dylan on their first […]
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New Tracks On Laurel Canyon Radio Week of June 29 “I Can’t Think About It Now” – Dawes For all the talk of the second coming of the Laurel Canyon scene, Dawes, on their latest release, the tongue-in-cheekily named “All Your Favorite Bands” winks at their media bestowed mantel and do their own thing, adding several good and very […]
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New Tracks On Laurel Canyon Radio Week of June 22 Summer has started (although what’s summer in Los Angeles?) and while pop radio looks to once again anoint a classic summer song, we focus this week on comebacks and returns from artists old and new. “Molly Town” – Jess Stone Singer/songwriter Stone, of the big booming expressive soul drenched […]
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Featuring Fred Armisen, Zosia Mamet, Leo Fitzpatrick, Feist and Vanessa Bayer.
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