From their remarkably short tenure with frontman and vocalist Jim Morrison, The Doors accomplished more in four years than many bands have in four decades. Before his death in 1971, Jim Morrison ...

Watch the amazing new video of The Doors’ “Riders on the Storm,” spearheaded by Playing For Change, on YouTube.

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

An artist’s lowest moments can sometimes produce their highest peaks of creativity, and that was certainly the case for Jim Morrison, who wrote what would become a signature Doors song while in a ...

Recently, Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea selected punk rock icons X as his choice for greatest L.A. band. For X lead singer Exene Cervenka, her pick is an equally easy one. “It’s the Hollywood ...

The lizard king is dead, long live The Doors. It’s August 1971, barely a month after Jim Morrison was found dead in a bathtub in Paris, and his surviving bandmates in The Doors are putting the ...

Sometimes, glaring similarities between two songs will hide in plain sight from a songwriter, as was the case for guitarist Ace Frehley when he pulled a “note for note” solo from the Doors to write ...

If you joined a band when you were 19, would you still be talking about it 60 years later? Most people would not. But this is Robby Krieger we're talking about, guitarist for the groundbreaking Los ...

The Doors guitarist Robby Krieger is looking back on his first encounter with Val Kilmer. The late actor, who died at age 65 on April 1, memorably portrayed the '60s rock band's legendary frontman, ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

The Doors pose for their first album cover, 1967. They are keyboardist Ray Manzarek, left, guitarist Robby Krieger, drummer John Densmore and vocalist Jim Morrison. (Mark and Colleen Hayward / Getty ...