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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New Tracks On Laurel Canyon Radio Week of June 15 Here at Laurel Canyon Radio, one of our mantras is that we celebrate the music from a seminal era in rock history and the artists that carry that tradition forward today. In no way are we suggesting that any of the many new and independent artists we play at the station […]
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New Tracks On Laurel Canyon Radio Week of June 5 “Southern California Is Your Girl Friend” – Indigo Girls In my mind, being a near-thirty year fan of the Indigo Girls has been akin to being a fan of a team that has never quite made it to the championships. They have a prodigiously large output of near hits (Closer […]
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Much has been made of the Smothers Brothers like banter of the Milk Carton Kids, but I would prefer to let the music speak for itself.
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“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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