Laurel Canyon: The Inside Story of Rock N Roll’s Famous Neighborhood

In the late sixties and early seventies, an impromptu collection of musicians colonized a eucalyptus-scented canyon deep in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles and melded folk, rock, and savvy American pop into a sound that conquered the world as thoroughly as the songs of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones had before them. Thirty years later, the music made […]

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Laurel Canyon Radio’s Top 50 Tracks of 2015

Top 50 Tracks of 2015 We’re back for another year of throwing our complete objectivity out the window to bring you a compendium of our favorite tunes of 2015.  Some represent the Laurel Canyon spirit, others are hummable ditties that won’t let us go that have as much to do with the spirit of Jim Morrison as your mom’s string […]

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New Tracks on Laurel Canyon Radio – May 4

New Tracks on Laurel Canyon Radio – Week of May 4   The calendar turns another page and we have discovered wonderful new releases from across the spectrum for your listening pleasure. “Texting Feist” – Giant Sand http://diffuser.fm/giant-sand-heartbreak-pass-new-album/   Celebrating the 30th (!!!) anniversary of Giant Sand Howe Gelb and friends release this witty pop rock freak-out of a track […]

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Joni Mitchell: In Her Own Words

Joni Mitchell: In Her Own Words When singer, musician, and broadcast journalist Malka Marom had the opportunity to interview Joni Mitchell in 1973, she was eager to reconnect with the performer she’d first met late one night in 1966 at a Yorkville coffeehouse. More conversations followed over the next four decades of friendship, and it was only after Joni and […]

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