The Eagles Fly High With Epic ‘Hotel California’ Show at Madison Square Garden “We want to provide you with about a three hour break from the hideous 24/7 news cycle,” Don Henley told New York audience. “Something familiar in uncertain times” By Andy Greene Andy Greene The Eagles Fly High With Epic ‘Hotel California’ Show at Madison Square Garden “We […]
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The Eagles’ ‘Hotel California’: 10 Things You Didn’t Know How Glenn Frey’s drug dealer, Don Henley’s king-size mattress and other behind-the-scenes elements played into band’s dark 1976 masterpiece The Eagles’ ‘Hotel California’: 10 Things You Didn’t Know By Jordan Runtagh December 8, 2016 By the second half the Seventies, the Eagles‘ “Peaceful Easy Feeling” seemed like a distant memory, a […]
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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 – Week of September 21 This sweltering summer is over (at least on the calendar) but we’ve got some new cool tracks to snuggle up to the radio with as the nights grow colder and longer. • “California Steamer” – Gospelbeach Somewhere between the unholy alliance of Northern and Southern California rock histories lies […]
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New Tracks On Laurel Canyon Radio – Week of September 11 It’s harmony September – with some great tracks and the discovery of an amazing woman who we think has the presence of Adele and the pipes of Aretha! “Go Back” – Darlingside Massachusetts-based ensemble whose electic blend of 60s folk, clever wry wit, classical arrangements, soaring harmonies and […]
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New Tracks on Laurel Canyon Radio – Week of August 25 Although most of the tracks here are brand-spaking new, we spent a good number of days rooting through albums new and old to see if we missed some delicious song that needed to be added to our playlist. If you listen, you will here a lot of new songs […]
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New Tracks on Laurel Canyon Radio – Week of July 30 Ah, the dog days of summer are upon us. The “summer song” Grammy winners have been officially anointed and the record labels are warming up for their big fall releases (well maybe that’s not happening). What have we got on the air that is giving us the warm fuzzies […]
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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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