Thursday, June 16 2011
Moonlit Romance: Zito & Trov’s Moon Girl #2
Writers Johnny Zito & Tony Trov recall a time when art and social commentary were once one. In Moon Girl, they give us the most poignant, and most important use of the superhero genre yet this century.
Monday, May 9 2011
Rocking Chair Blues: Howlin’ Wolf - “Back Door Man”
On "Back Door Man", Howlin' Wolf offers the alluring promise of illicit midnight pleasure.
Friday, March 11 2011
Counterbalance No. 24: ‘The Doors’
Before you slip into unconsciousness, Counterbalance's Jason Mendelsohn and Eric Klinger have put together a few thoughts on the Doors' 1967 debut album. It's number 24 on the Big List.
Wednesday, February 16 2011
Santana and Various Artists: Guitar Heaven
Guitar Heaven: The Greatest Guitar Classics of All Time comes off as a celebrity version of American Idol.
Tuesday, August 3 2010
Laura Huxley Has Her Say About Laura Huxley in ‘Huxley on Huxley’
Aldous Huxley's second wife discusses her life before, during and after her marriage to the eminent author of Brave New World and The Doors of Perception.
Thursday, April 1 2010
The Doors and Various Artists - When You’re Strange (new album / video / stream)
Friday, December 19 2008
The Vast Immensity of it All: Fear and Loathing on Sunset Boulevard
Faces of Sunset Boulevard is, without a doubt, one of the strongest statements about man’s dark fate in the West ever committed to paper in the author and photographer’s chosen form.
Thursday, December 11 2008
The Doors: Live at the Matrix 1967
Live at the Matrix 1967 works as an archival document of the Doors before the band exploded and fame overtook them.
Tuesday, May 8 2007
The Doors: Open for Business (Again)
If the first two Doors albums are drugs, they’d be of the decidedly psychedelic variety; the next couple are a dangerous cocktail of amphetamines and Quaaludes. Morrison Hotel is beer: authentic, unfiltered, as American as it gets. L.A. Woman manages to be all of the above.
Thursday, December 21 2006
The Doors by The Doors by The Doors, with Ben Fong-Torres
Death has been very good to Jim Morrison, but it's been even better for those who continue to profit from his fleeting but fruitful body of his work. Not to mention his body. With that in mind, the following words will be eschewed for the duration of this discussion: Shaman, Dionysus, Rimbaud, God, Satan, and Witchcraft.
