When The Doors released their debut album in 1967, one of its strangest tracks was Alabama Song, a theatrical piece that ...

The first time Jim Morrison yelled at his Doors bandmates, it was in 1968, and the other three musicians committed what to Morrison amounted to a cardinal sin. They had arranged for one of their songs ...

The Doors' recording career started with a whimper, not a bang. By 1966, the band had become something of a sensation on the Los Angeles rock 'n' roll scene, with famed residencies at a pair of clubs ...

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 haven’t put out an album of original material since the 1970s, but that hasn’t stopped them from returning to the Billboard charts. The rock band is back on the weekly rankings with a ...

Before the Doors made a record, they developed their signature sound onstage in front of audiences. "A lot of the songs in the beginning, me or [guitarist Robby Krieger] would come in with a basic ...

The Doors’ iconic self-titled album, which holds many of their most famous songs, dropped in the year 1967. Leading up to that famed release, they became famous in Los Angeles and would soon be ...

As The Doors celebrate their 60th anniversary this year, Talkhouse has launched a new podcast examining the legendary band’s legacy with The New Yorker’s Naomi Fry. On Really?? The Doors??, Fry and a ...

It certainly wasn’t The Doors’ biggest hit, as it was only released as a B-side to a single that flamed out quickly. And it wasn’t all that emblematic of the band’s signature sound, as it largely ...

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 ...