Haystak Music (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
L.A. Woman is the sixth and last studio album that the American rock band The Doors recorded with lead singer Jim Morrison, who died in July 1971. The album's style is arguably the most blues rock -oriented of the band's catalog. Following the departure of their record producer Paul A. Rothchild (who dismissed the group's differing style as "cocktail music") around November 1970, the Doors...
Exploding Celluloid Inevitable (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
One’s likely enjoyment of a music documentary is proportional to one’s liking of the music in question, however good the documentary is. Therefore I love Fearless Freaks (the Flaming Lips documentary), but hate No Direction Home (even with Martin Scorsese directing, for me Bob Dylan is a jerk with a hideous singing voice). A film about the Doors was always going to appeal to me, even just...
Metroblogging Los Angeles (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
You asked for ‘em, we got ‘em: your chance to see the iconic musicians up close & personal at Club Nokia. Info on the show is here; to win, tell me your fave Doors quote in the comments. We’ll pick a few lucky winners at random.
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 09/25/2009
When a concert venue cancels a show these days, nine times out of 10 the reason given is scheduling conflicts, a catch-all phrase that can mean "We couldnt sell enough tickets" to "The star attraction got a better gig." Cancellation explanations dont get much better than the one issued by the Golden Bear back in 1985 when David Crosby bowed out of a booking at the Huntington Beach...
HolyCoast.com (Free subscription) | 09/17/2009
My daughter, who is a junior at Sonoma State University in Northern California, sends us short email updates every day or so just to let us know what's going on in her life. The school is building a wonderful new performing arts center, the Green Music Center (GMC), which I shot a photo of last May: That's the main hall, but there are a whole collection of buildings that go with it, including classroom...
BOTH BOTH (Free subscription) | 09/16/2009
working on a new little book of poems for Lew Gallery... watching Brandon Downing's Dark Brandon on mute with Spice 1 on the turntable... 4 pages from finishing my bathroom book The New American Poetry...there's a lot of garbage in there...and a lot of goodies in there...winners? Creeley and Weiners...loosers? Orlovsky and Duncan (badbadbadbadbadbadbad) tomorrow S. Larsen reading at Books and Bookshelves...
Punknews.org (Free subscription) | 09/14/2009
Legendary punk poet Jim Carroll has passed away at 60. The cause was a heart attack, said Rosemary Carroll, his former wife. Carroll was well-known in the mainstream for the film, The Basketball Diaries , which starred Leonardo DiCaprio and covered his youth. His poetry and music was very influential, with Patti Smith saying: I met him in 1970, and already he was pretty much universally recognized...
Spinner.com (Free subscription) | 09/13/2009
Jim Carroll, an icon of the underground for his memoir, 'The Basketball Diaries,' died Friday, Sept. 11, in his New York City apartment of a heart attack, his ex-wife Rosemary Carroll told the New York Times . He was 60. Carroll also enjoyed success as the frontman for the band that sported his name, with the touching punk rock ode, 'People Who Died,' a furiously paced list of his fallen comrades,...
Spatula Forum (Free subscription) | 08/12/2009
Music lists week continues, with... 6 POPULAR BANDS I JUST DON'T CARE FOR Now, I'll pass on the obvious here -- the Lady GaGas or Jonas Brotherses or Miley Cyruses , which at 37.8 years old I cannot really be expected to like. I like to think I'm fairly open-minded, as far as it goes -- I've got a mix of Britpop, honky-tonk, hip-hop and post-punk in my collection, although classical music and I have...
My Favourite Music Albums (Free subscription) | 07/29/2009
1: The Changeling 2: Love Her Madly 3: Been Down So Long 4: Cars Hiss By My Window 5: L.A. Woman 6: L'America 7: Hyacinth House 8: Crawling King Snake 9: The WASP (Texas Radio and the Big Beat) 10: Riders on the Storm Well, The Doors are my all time favourite music group, no questions asked. Also, 'L.A. Woman' is my favourite Doors album, again, no questions asked. There's many reasons why this album...
TwoTonGreenBlog (Free subscription) | 07/23/2009
Gonna miss the fog. Gonna be a lot hotter in CA than it is here at the coast. Right now, it is 62 outside and it only got up to 68 today. Hope I don't miss any new flowers blooming in the garden. Seems like yesterday this was green stalks with buds and now it is in full bloom. The rose that tries to eat the front stairs is starting to bloom. The recent haircut it got appears to have encouraged it to...
the minor premise (Free subscription) | 07/14/2009
The master of the parody has done it again. Al Yankovic has released a send up of the style of Jim Morrison and the Doors, titled "Craigslist" and it is dead on. Just as he did with his masterwork "Genius in France" Al manages to pay tribute while being hilarous. Craigslist includes the talents of Doors keyboardist Ray Manzarek, which undoubtedly helps match the Doors sound,...
Crooks and Liars (Free subscription) | 06/25/2009
Title: Craigslist Artist: Weird Al Yankovic In his latest offering, Craigslist, Weird Al Yankovic pays tribute to The Doors, joined by Ray Manzarek himself on keys. Craigslist is one of four new tracks from Al, and a new album is set to be released next year. What do you think -- does it stack up to Al's past work? I thought it was entertaining and as always, Weird Al stays true to form. What's your...
Damn Fine Day (Free subscription) | 06/24/2009
The Doors happily threw a velvet and leather monkey wrench into the hippie machine that ran on liquid sunshine, peace, love, and understanding. Jim Morrison’s vocals and Ray Manzarek’s sideshow organ had no precedent in pop music, and their sinister vibe provided a chilling and much-needed touch of darkness to the hippie daze most kids [...]
The Daily Swarm - Headlines (Free subscription) | 06/22/2009
If there’s one thing his fans have learned over the years, it’s that nothing is safe from the biting humour of Weird Al Yankovic. A couple of years ago, he parodied eBay to the tune of Backstreet Boys’ “I Want It That Way.” Now, the Weird one is taking a shot at Craigslist set to a version of “Light My Fire” by the Doors. Even better, Yankovic somehow coaxed...
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