Watch A Trailer For New Laurel Canyon Documentary Echo In The Canyon Echo In The Canyon is a new documentary about the Laurel Canyon scene in the 1960s, framed around the rise of the Byrds, the Beach Boys, Buffalo Springfield, the Mamas And The Papas, and more. The film features rare archival footage and contemporary interviews with artists and musicians that were […]
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We’re pleased as punch and happy as heck to present the first of many shows in concert with the Hotel Cafe. Our first show features singer-songwriter Toby Lightman, on the heels of an all-acoustic lullaby cover album “When The Lion Sleeps” featuring “Moonshadow”, “Blackbird” and more. Bring your pajamas (or not) for a night of familiar tunes in a whole […]
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The affable performer played with the Monkees from their earliest days as a made-for-tv band all the way through their recent reunion tours ByANDY GREENE Monkees bassist and singer Peter Tork, who played with the group from their earliest days as a made-for-TV band in the Sixites through their recent reunion tours, died Thursday of unknown causes. He was 77. […]
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Three-Day Woodstock Festival From Original Organizer Coming This Summer “Woodstock ’99 was just a musical experience with no social significance,” Michael Lang says of Woodstock 50. “With this one, we’re going back to our roots and our original intent” By ANDY GREENE Santana perform at the Woodstock Music Festival in 1969. Organizer Michael Lang will stage a three-day 50th anniversary […]
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Laurel Canyon Radio’s Top 10 Albums of 2018 Well we sure did listen to a lot of stuff, and we play a lot of songs on Laurel Canyon Radio as opposed to albums, but when we look at the sum total of an artist, we often want to hear how their sound holds together on a whole album. Here […]
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Menu From Rolling Stone Magazine See Blackberry Smoke, Amanda Shires Cover Tom Petty’s ‘You Got Lucky’ Classic-rock legend would have turned 68 on October 20th By ROBERT CRAWFORD Last October, during the final encore of Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit’s annual residency at the Ryman Auditorium, Amanda Shires traded solos with dobro master Jerry Douglas during a Celtic-influenced cover of Tom Petty’s […]
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We’re featuring this track on this Sunday’s edition of Sound Cloud Sunday at 3pm on Laurel Canyon Radio, but we thought we would put it up front in our rotation. Check him out! A professional musician and music teacher Matt Walklate made a significant impact on us with the first song from his album “Sea […]
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Hear Willie Nelson’s Studio Version of New Song ‘Vote ‘Em Out’ “If it’s a bunch of clowns you voted in, Election Day is coming ’round again,” sings Nelson in his political rallying cry By JOSEPH HUDAK When Willie Nelson headlined a rally for Democratic Texas Senate candidate Beto O’Rourke last month in Austin, he debuted the new political anthem “Vote ‘Em Out.” A bouncy, […]
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Graham Nash Shares His Demos From ‘Over The Years…’ July 16, 201811:32 AM ET TOM MOON Graham Nash’s Over The Years… comes out June 29. Amy Grantham/Courtesy of the artist Note: NPR’s First Listen audio comes down after the album is released. However, you can still listen with the Spotify or Apple Music playlist at the bottom of the page. If his […]
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Nicki Bluhm Flying Solo From the Boulder Weekly By Sarah Haas – As a touring musician, Nicki Bluhm is used to spending more than half the year on the road — staying at different hotels in different cities — enough to turn the unfamiliar into the status quo. But since separating from her husband in 2015 (they divorced two […]
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