The Doors are part of a very specific category of classic-rock artists: the gateway artists. The bands that -- assuming you weren't around in the '60s -- are amongst the first names you explore when ...

Few bands burned brighter – or faster – than The Doors. In just five years, they evolved from brooding Venice Beach outsiders to one of rock’s most mythologised acts, blending poetry, menace, and ...

The year 1968 will go down in American history as one of the most turbulent years of the modern era. Amid widespread protests, political unrest, and growing distrust in institutions, the nation was ...

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 ...

Choosing only five of the 21 songs the Doors released in 1967 was no easy task, but understanding why that year was the best year of the band's career was not. Their self-titled debut and "Strange ...