“Hotel California” topped the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for one week in May 1977 and peaked at number 10 on the Easy Listening chart. Billboard ranked it number 19 on its 1977 Pop Singles year-end chart. Three months after its first release, the single was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), representing one million copies shipped. The […]
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New Tracks on Laurel Canyon Radio – Week of May 27 Sometimes it is a safe bet for us to strictly adhere to our musical credo of playing “music from a seminal era and the artists that carry that music forward today”, and other days we just want to go eclectic and just bring you a pu-pu platter of great […]
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New Tracks on Laurel Canyon Radio – Week of May 20 Summer’s here! Wow…that was fast! In light of the upcoming Memorial Weekend, we’ve got an all-Americana edition of our new music preview….and what a great set of tracks we have! “I’m Sorry Wednesday” – Wooden Nickel Lottery […]
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New Tracks on Laurel Canyon Radio – Week of May 13 I feel like I’ve hit the harmony trifecta with new music from The Milk Carton Kids, the Indigo Girls and J.D. Souther this week, but there was much more to love in my in-box, and we’re throwing it in all in heavy rotation on LCR. “24 […]
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By MessyNessy 21ST APR, 2015 In a sleepy fishing village on the island of Crete, where Joni Mitchell had found herself a nomadic home inside manmade Neolithic caves carved into the sandstone cliff, she sang her folk songs, “under a starry dome…beneath the Matala Moon.” It was the 1960s and a community of backpacking hippies had settled in Matala, a remote corner […]
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New Tracks on Laurel Canyon Radio – Week of April 23 We’ve added a bunch of delicious new music to the station this week and we can’t tell you how excited we are by a new crop of Laurel Canyon-y tunes for you to wash over you like the aural pashmina it is: Heartache – Nicki Bluhm And […]
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For those who are too jaded…here’s a brief history of the Snob Dictionary Guide To Laurel Canyon.
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New Tracks – Laurel Canyon Radio – Week of April 15 The taxes are filed, the refunds are spent, the weather is getting warmer…and what have we added to our rotation this week? Falling From The Sky – Calexico http://www.casadecalexico.com/news/ Typically more interested in creating atmospheric Americana sounds than pop hits, Calexico’s new “Edge of The Sun” splits the […]
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Crosby, Stills & Nash (CSN) is the folk rock supergroup made up of David Crosby, Stephen Stillsand Graham Nash. They are known as Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (CSNY) when joined by occasional fourth member Neil Young. They are noted for their intricate vocal harmonies, often tumultuous interpersonal relationships, political activism, and lasting influence on American music and culture. All four members […]
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New Tracks On Laurel Canyon Radio Week of April 8 Indie bands and rock-n-roll royalty all find their way on to our airwaves this week: Hanging On – Sky Smeed http://www.skysmeed.com/ “I love you I’m not kissing on your bank account” go the lyrics from this beautifully rendered love tome from Kansas-based indie rocker Sky Smeed. Comparisons to […]
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