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2nd Story’s communicating Doors

Ticklish time travel
Slammed-door farces are delightful opportunities to unhinge us with laughter.
By BILL RODRIGUEZ | October 05, 2011

Review: Rock Band 3

Keys open doors
Adding a keyboard to Rock Band 3 was the most logical move for Harmonix.
By MITCH KRPATA | November 09, 2010

Darker My Love | Alive as You Are

Dangerbird (2010)
This makes it six years since Darker My Love got their psychedelic labors under way, and it still seems unusual that guitarist/singer Tim Presley is the same Tim Presley of long-defunct hardcore agitators the Nerve Agents.
By REYAN ALI | August 10, 2010

Review: When You’re Strange

Doesn’t open any new Doors
If you’re a Doors fan, your inner Jim Morrison will be stoked by the vast archival footage in When You’re Strange .
By TOM MEEK | April 08, 2010

Interview: Ray Manzarek of the Doors

The return of the Lizard King, sort of
It’s been nearly 40 years since the death of Jim Morrison, but the surviving members of the Doors, keyboardist Ray Manzarek, guitarist Robby Krieger and percussionist John Densmore have kept soldiering on, playing in various reformations of the ground-breaking band. The meteoric rise of the band is chronicled in the new documentary, When You’re Strange.
By TOM MEEK | April 05, 2010

The Doors | Live in New York

Rhino (2009)
In 1970, Doors producer Paul Rothchild assembled a tight “live set” out of a bunch of different concert recordings from the band’s 1969/early-1970 shows and Elektra released it as the Absolutely Live LP.
By GUSTAVO TURNER | December 09, 2009

White Denim | Fits

Downtown (2009)
Even more than on last year’s auspicious digital-only Exposion , Austin’s White Denim stomp down the fine line between fertile versatility and iffy uncertainty. More often than not on Fits , this works out awesome.
By MICHAEL BRODEUR | October 21, 2009

Will Harvard drop acid again?

Psychedelic research returns to Crimsonland
In a moment of delightful whimsy in the annals of drug history, Albert Hofmann, after purposely ingesting LSD for the first time, rode his bicycle home and experienced all manner of beatific and hellish visions.
By PETER BEBERGAL | June 09, 2008

Pleasures still unknown

Conventions take Control of Ian Curtis
Ian Curtis (Sam Riley) of the Manchester band Joy Division wrote songs that evoke, with incantatory inevitability, terror, delight, and ecstasy.
By PETER KEOUGH | October 24, 2007

Lesser doesn’t mean loser

Letters to the Boston editor: August 31, 2007
I have to complain that by literally writing off candidates such as Dennis Kucinich — candidates who actually stand for something besides a vague sound bite.
By BOSTON PHOENIX LETTERS | August 29, 2007

Yin Yang

Rhino resurrects the Doors’ Live in Boston 1970
They wanted to see his cock. But as shit-faced drunk as he was, Jim Morrison had learned his lesson.
By JEFF TAMARKIN | August 14, 2007

Divine interventions

The cosmic rock of Young Gods
The trick with Switzerland’s Young Gods has always been to see past the mechanized or “industrial” elements of their sound.
By JAMES PARKER | April 23, 2007

Grand choral works

Johannes Brahms’s A German Requiem and Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana
The traditional Roman Catholic liturgical text for a requiem mass is a prayer for the dead, evoking horrors of the last judgment.
By BEN MEIKLEJOHN | March 28, 2007

Factory guy

Images of Andy on the big screen
“If you want to know all about Andy Warhol,” Andy Warhol is quoted on the US Post Office stamp commemorating him in 2002, “just look at the surface: of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There’s nothing behind it.” Wasted again: Factory Girl isn’t the bio-pic Edie deserves. By Gary Susman
By PETER KEOUGH | February 07, 2007