The Doors were more than just another band. That’s something that comes through time and time again as you listen to their music today. *“It’s the drumming, man ...

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 ...

The somewhat checkered history of archival exhumations from the vault of The Doors would no doubt preclude thinking that Live at the Matrix 1967: The Complete Masters (Rhino, 2023) would constitute ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Chiu is a freelance music writer based in New York. John Densmore, the legendary drummer for the Doors, recalls coming ...

This year marks the 60th anniversary of the formation of The Doors, and the band recently launched a yearlong celebration in commemoration of the milestone. Both John and Robby marveled at the ...

Jim Morrison would’ve turned 80 years old on December 8, 2023, a feat that may seem like an impossibility from our modern perspective when he’s been a dead legend for far longer than he was a living ...

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 ...

Densmore and Krieger, like McCartney and Starr, make new music a priority, even when that means intertwining the music of the Doors through the lens of fresh material. “I play Doors stuff live – I’m ...

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 ...

The Doors were more than just another band. That's something that comes through time and time again as you listen to their music today. "It's the drumming, man," John Densmore jokes near the end of a ...