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The Doors are set to celebrate the 50th anniversary of their 1970 LP Morrison Hotel with a reissue packed with unreleased takes from the album’s studio sessions.

The two-cd/LP deluxe edition of the Morrison Hotel: 50th Anniversary reissue, due out October 9th, will feature the original album newly remastered by the Doors’ longtime engineer and mixer Bruce Botnick on both CD and vinyl, plus a bonus disc containing 19 studio outtakes.

Botnick said in a statement: “There are many takes, different arrangements, false starts and insightful studio conversations between the...

As protesters and activists around the country are continuing the fight against racial injustice and police brutality, domestic violence activist Sil Lai Abrams knows it can be challenging to “hold space” for an “equally large” issue: sexual violence against black women.

“As a black woman, I can’t separate racism from sexism,” said Abrams, who appears in the new HBO Max documentary “On the Record” in which she and other women detail their accusations of sexual assault by music impresario Russell Simmons. (He has denied the accusations.) “One of the challenges that happens within the movement for black lives is that far too often, the experiences of black women are pushed to the side in favor of the dominant narrative around our race. And I understand why we do this, because it is through racial solidarity that we make advances as the people. At the same time, it is through...