The Doors Stories

Your Inauguration Day Playlist

Happy (?) Inauguration Day.  Everybody's dealing with it their own way but music, and comedy, seem to be fine ways to face our impending reality.Musician Jeff Kravitz (@jeffkravitz) put out a social media call for songs for his band to play at the Inauguration. From over 225 entries, he culled this playlist of 90 songs...

Warren (and Symphony) Plays Jerry @ Chicago Theater 5/20/14

Rock coupled with the symphony has always made for a curious marriage. This is particularly true for improvisational music, which doesn't lend itself to arrangements for dozens of musicians.For jam fans in Chicago (and really most of the Midwest) we haven't had too much evidence to sway us either way. We've had to sit...

Best Of The Rest: Chicago Shows On Archive Fall 2013

I try to get a bunch of Chicago Shows up on the site in our audio visual section, but every now and then I need to catch up. Here a catch all post for some of the ifne shows posted up on archive from this fall.I guess it was technically still summer, but the...

Two Charts: Why I Don't Listen To The Doors & Mr. Mojo Risin (The Graphical Explanation)

I made this chart in about thirty seconds as a response to a tweet a few weeks ago. Finally getting around to sharing it on the site. Here's the tweet:@TweeterReprise: The further away from high school you get, the less you listen to The Doors My response:Here's an example. I found this...

Symphony Sunday: The Doors Edition

There is something special when the worlds of rock and classical music collide. After months of preparation, the end products are only performed a handful of times, creating something truly unique for the lucky attendees. The Barn will feature a different rock / symphony fusion weekly over the next several weeks in a new feature: Symphony...