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During his rise to fame in the Eighties, Val Kilmer garnered a reputation among his peers and the media as a brooding young actor who was often petulant on set. His performances, however, were captivating and nuanced, an unmistakable result of his relentless dedication to his craft.

When remembering Kilmer, who died Tuesday at the age of 65, director Oliver Stone reflected on the enigmatic actor’s “contradictory” nature. Stone, who worked with Kilmer on the 1991 rock biopic The Doors and 2004 historical drama Alexander, calls him “brilliant, both as Jim Morrison...

Val Kilmer, who starred in a string of high-profile films such as Batman Forever and The Doors before receding from the silver screen amid health issues, died on Tuesday at the age of 65.

His daughter, Mercedes Kilmer, confirmed the actor’s death to The New York Times, adding the cause was pneumonia. She said Kilmer was diagnosed with throat cancer in 2014 and later recovered.

The actor shot to fame in the Eighties with features in Top Secret!, Real Genius, and the mega blockbuster hit Top Gun playing naval aviator Tom...

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The music world grieved when Jim Morrison passed away in 1971 at the age of 27.

But according to a new documentary, the legendary Doors singer is alive and well and living in Syracuse, New York.

Yes, there have long been rumors that Morrison faked his death. And now, one filmmaker claims to have located the rock icon.

American rock band The Doors arrive at Heathrow Airport for their European Tour starting off at the Roundhouse in London, UK, 5th September 1968. (Photo by Len Trievnor/Daily Express/Getty Images) Jim Morrison is working as a handyman in Syracuse, says Jeff Finn

The AppleTV documentary Before the End has been streaming since January, but the film just went viral over the weekend thanks to some outrageous claims.

According to filmmaker Jeff Finn, after faking his own death, Morrison has spent the past 54 years hiding out in Upstate New York.

(Which,...

Garth Hudson, the majestic keyboard, saxophone and accordion player and last surviving member of The Band, died Tuesday. He was 87.

Hudson died in his sleep at a nursing home in Woodstock, New York, his estate executor told The Toronto Star.

The Canadian musician and his mates Robbie Robertson, Levon Helm, Rick Danko and Richard Manuel backed up Ronnie Hawkins and Bob Dylan before striking out on their own. They perfected a style that combined American roots music, country, blues, R&b, gospel, rockabilly and — courtesy of Hudson — tenor sax and organ dirges.

One of many highlights of a Band concert was the bearded Hudson as mad genius performing an organ solo and a standard improvised introduction to “Chest Fever,” from their seminal 1968 debut album Music From Big Pink. The tune, written by Robertson and echoing Bach with its classical overtones, opened their Woodstock set in 1969.

“Where most rock organists 15 years...

An iconic Los Angeles rock ‘n’ roll landmark went up in flames Thursday.

The former Morrison Hotel was made famous by The Doors’ fifth album, 1970’s Morrison Hotel. In addition to sharing the album’s name, the cover art showed the band with lead singer Jim Morrison perched in the lobby’s window.

The four-story landmark, built in 1914, was heavily damaged in a fire that took more than 100 firefighters to get under control, according to The Associated Press.

The building has officially been considered vacant for at least 10 years, according to the Los Angeles Times, though several people were evacuated from the property without injury during the blaze. The building was purchased in 2022 by the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, which intended to convert the structure into affordable housing. The organization had been struggling to prevent squatters from occupying the former hotel.

“In the fire department, we say there are no vacant...

The Los Angeles Fire Department knocked down a fire Thursday in a vacant downtown building that was formerly the home of the Morrison Hotel, which became famous after it was photographed as the cover art for the 1970 album by seminal L.A. band The Doors.

The structure fire was located on the top floor of the vacant four-story building located at 1246 S Hope St. A total of 17 fire companies and more than 100 firefighters, knocked down the blaze in 1 hour and 37 minutes, the Lafd said. The fire forced the closure of eastbound and westbound traffic on Pico.

No injuries were reported, but crews had to use ground ladders to reach fire escapes and assist unhoused persons that were exiting the vacant structure.

The property had been acquired by the AIDS Healthcare Foundation last year with plans to turn it into 111 units of low-income housing after battling with a developer looking to...

Rhino is celebrating The Doors’ 60th anniversary with a massive release campaign including a vinyl box set, live album, and anthology book.

The 6-lp box set arrives November 22nd and will surely get collectors salivating. As part of the label’s hi-fi audiophile vinyl series, the set will include each of the band’s studio albums spanning 1967 through 1971, all cut from the original master tapes by esteemed cutting engineer Kevin Gray and pressed at Optimal Media in Germany. The box sets are limited to 3,000 worldwide.

Additionally, Rhino will be roll out the The Doors – Live in Detroit as a 4-lp release — the live album’s first-ever vinyl release — for Record Store Day Black Friday on November 29th.

Recorded to tape during the band’s performance at the Cobo Arena in Detroit on May 8th, 1970, the live album captures The Doors at their musical peak, with a set featuring numerous blues...

Even in their earliest days in Los Angeles’s punk scene, X had one eye on rock music’s past. Guitarist Billy Zoom’s twisted riffs made nods to Chuck Berry, while Doors keyboardist Ray Manzarek produced and played organ on the band’s first four albums. On their ninth (and supposedly final) studio album, Smoke & Fiction, X looks back on their own history but fails to recapture what made them such an exhilarating fixture of L.A. punk in the first place.

X’s 1980 debut, Los Angeles, furiously tore down the illusion of the eponymous city’s glitz and glamour, with its bleak songs about bigotry, addiction, and sexual assault performed with an unsettling glee. On Smoke & Fiction, the band reflects on those days with some degree of nostalgia: “We were never just kids, we were pretty young/We did what we did just to get along,” singer-bassist John...

Independent publisher Primary Wave Music announced Monday that it has acquired the rights of guitarist Robby Krieger and late keyboardist Ray Manzarek pertaining to their band, the Doors. It includes the Doors’ music publishing catalog, recordings, trademarks, merchandise rights, and income. The deal does not include the late Jim Morrison entities’ and drummer John Densmore’s interests.

The financial terms of what Primary Wave Music described as a “monumental acquisition” have not been disclosed, but it includes their classic hits such as “Break on Through (to the Other Side),” “Light My Fire,...

Rolling Stone‘s interview series King for a Day features long-form conversations between senior writer Andy Greene and singers who had the difficult job of fronting major rock bands after the departure of an iconic vocalist. Some of them stayed in their bands for years, while others lasted just a few months. In the end, however, they all found out that replacement singers can themselves be replaced. This edition features former Manzarek–Krieger singer Dave Brock.

In the aftermath of Jim Morrison’s death in 1971, the surviving members of the...

When Rolling Stone was a rickety operation run out of a rent-free San Francisco loft, and the music business was still so low-key you could score an interview with the Doors’ Jim Morrison by bumping into him in a friend’s apartment, Ben Fong-Torres was there. Fong-Torres, one of Rolling Stone‘s first star writers, finally gets his own spotlight in the excellent new documentary Like a Rolling Stone: The Life & Times of Ben Fong-Torres, now on Netflix.

And in the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now, he looks...

Let’s face it: the mandatory quarantine put in place by a number of states last year gave us a lot of time on our hands. Even if you were working from home, there was only so much screen-time you could take before your eyes started drooping and your fingers got fidgety.

Being stuck indoors wasn’t ideal, but many people made the most of it — our team of editors included. Here are ten new things we learned from the confines — and comforts — of home. From swapping coffee for Japanese matcha,...

John Densmore vividly remembers the words longtime Doors producer Paul A. Rothchild used to describe “Riders on the Storm”: “cocktail music.” “When he heard it, it was in an early rehearsal and it hadn’t evolved into what it became,” the drummer says of the dramatic track, a cowboy ghost story set to haunting rain and thunder. “But it really is one of our most important songs.”

The full story of the track will finally be told in an upcoming, 50th-anniversary box set reissue of L.A. Woman, the...

A-ha detail the evolution of their Eighties smash “Take On Me” in this clip from A-ha: The Movie, a documentary about the Norwegian New Wave band’s formation, success and disintegration set to premiere at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival.

As the band reveal in the clip — and as keyboardist Magne Furuholmen told Rolling Stone in a 2011 interview about the track — “Take On Me” underwent numerous stylistic changes, title changes and false starts before becoming a chart-topping hit and instantly-iconic music video.

Before becoming a Number One hit, “Take On Me...

The Doors’ Ray Manzarek was known as a skilled keyboardist and respected music producer (his credits include seminal albums by X), but he was also a knowledgeable movie buff, having graduated from UCLA’s film program and receiving his Mfa in cinematography in 1965. Forty days after school let out, he met Jim Morrison by chance on Venice Beach and the rest is rock ‘n’ roll history.

The Doors provided musical psychedelia that the youth of 1960s America, staring down a war in Vietnam that proved tragically futile, yearned for. And the four members — Manzarek, Morrison, drummer John Densmore and guitarist Robbie Krieger — did so while espousing the use of mind-altering substances like marijuana, LSD and other hallucinogens. All of which was reason enough to include Manzarek in a book called “Reefer Movie Madness,” which this author co-wrote with Steve Bloom ten years ago to serve as a guide to “more than 420 mind-bending flicks.

Doors drummer John Densmore discusses his musical and personal relationship with the band’s keys maestro Ray Manzarek in this new excerpt from the drummer’s upcoming book, The Seekers: Meetings With Remarkable Musicians (And Other Artists), out November 17th.

The book, as its title suggests, is less a straight memoir or autobiography than an exploration of the creative life and process. Inspired by Greek-Armenian mystic G.I. Gurdjieff’s 1927 book, Meetings With Remarkable Men, Densmore says in the intro to The Seekers that his goal was to assemble “my own...

Before the Doors recorded the first take of “Roadhouse Blues,” the boogieing lead-off to their fifth album, Morrison Hotel, frontman Jim Morrison set the scene for the band by describing a vivid scene with his natural gusto.

“Now the subject of this song is something that all of you have seen at one time or another, it’s an old roadhouse,” he told the band, as heard in the previously unreleased recording premiering on Rolling Stone. “We’re down in the South or in the Midwest or maybe on the way to Bakersfield,...

In March, as the coronavirus pandemic’s impact on the music industry was just coming into focus, the online music platform Bandcamp came up with an innovative way to help artists in need: For one day, the site waived its revenue share on all sales, giving musicians more of the money made off of each record, tape, or T-shirt. Fans responded in huge numbers, spending more than $4 million that Friday. Those results were so encouraging that Bandcamp is now extending this sales holiday to the first Friday of the next three months,...

John Doe doesn’t think often about Los Angeles, the landmark punk record his band X released 40 years ago this month. He estimates he hasn’t even played the LP — which ranks on several Rolling Stone lists, including the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time and the 40 Greatest Punk Albums — in 35 years. “We play all those songs all the time live,” he says. “Recordings are great, but if you’re in the middle of it, playing songs live is better.”

But even though he hasn’t put on the vinyl in decades,...

The Doors: Break On Thru – A Celebration Of Ray Manzarek Screens at Tivoli Theatre February 12th at 7pm. Ticket information can be found Here. A Facebook invite for the event can be found Here

The Doors: Break on Thru – A Celebration of Ray Manzarek is a hybrid concert and documentary capturing a 2016 performance in Los Angeles by surviving Doors members John Densmore and Robby Krieger to honor fellow Doors member Ray Manzarek on what would have been his birthday on February 12. The Doors were born when Ray Manzarek met Jim Morrison on Venice Beach in 1965. Ray became the beating heart of The Doors and the architect of their intoxicating keyboard sound. Manzarek’s evocative playing fused rock, jazz, blues, bossa nova and an array of other styles into something utterly, dazzlingly new. The setlist from the concert consists of Doors songs performed by John and Robby alongside a cast of...

In this lacklustre documentary, surviving members of the Doors reunite on stage to pay tribute to the band’s late keyboard player

Here’s a deeply uncool, almost embarrassingly un-rock’n’roll Doors documentary; it’s unlikely to get toes a-tapping let alone light a fire. It’s essentially a filmed gig, reuniting the two surviving Doors, guitarist Robby Krieger and drummer John Densmore, on stage with assorted members of Foo Fighters, Jane’s Addiction, Stone Temple Pilots and more filling in for Jim Morrison and keyboardist Ray Manzarek. The hits comes thick and fast, tightly arranged and slickly performed, but this lineup of well-preserved mostly male musicians gives the show the bland atmosphere of a celebrity tribute band.

The gig is dedicated to Manzarek, who died in 2013, and director Justin Kreutzmann pads out the gig footage with an interview the keyboardist gave and fresh input from Krieger and Densmore.

Foo Fighters’ Taylor Hawkins fronted the surviving members of the Doors for a bluesy performance of “Love Me Two Times” in 2016. The performance is part of The Doors: Break on Thru, an upcoming concert documentary honoring the late keyboardist Ray Manzarek, who died from cancer in 2013.

In the clip, Hawkins takes Jim Morrison’s lead vocals on the 1967 song, backed by Doors guitarist Robby Krieger and drummer John Densmore. They’re joined by Stone Temple Pilots bassist Robert DeLeo as well as Foo Fighters keyboardist Rami Jaffee, who plays Manzarek’s iconic parts.

Next Thursday, January 23rd, the two surviving members of the Doors — drummer John Densmore and guitarist Robby Krieger — will make a rare appearance together at the Homeward Bound charity concert at the Wiltern in Los Angeles.

It’s been a couple of years since the pair last took the stage together, and one week out, Densmore admits to Rolling Stone that he and Krieger have yet to finalize a setlist — or even rehearse.

“I’m used to it!” Densmore says. “I was the one who did the setlists in the Doors,...

Here’s a partial list of musicians we lost in the 2010s: Aretha Franklin, David Bowie, Chuck Berry, Ornette Coleman, B.B. King, Etta James, Whitney Houston, Lou Reed, Leonard Cohen, Prince, Merle Haggard, Kitty Wells, João Gilberto, Ravi Shankar, Tabu Ley Rochereau, David Mancuso, Amy Winehouse, Abbie Lincoln, Gil Scott Heron, George Jones, George Martin, George Michael, Allen Toussaint, Donna Summer, Phife Dawg, Prodigy, Adam Yauch, Heavy D, Captain Beefheart, Robert Hunter, Gregory Isaacs, Johnny Otis, Big Jay McNeely, Levon Helm, Kate McGarrigle, Guy Clark, Pete Seeger, Ralph Stanley, Gregg Allman,...

In today’s film news roundup, one-night showings of a Ray Manzarek tribute and the season premiere of “Doctor Who” have been set for 2020, and the MPAA hires a copyright expert.

One-night Showings

The Doors and Trafalgar Releasing are teaming on the worldwide Feb. 12 release of “The Doors: Break on Thru – A Celebration of Ray Manzarek.”

The film has been dated on the birthday of Manzarek, co-founder and keyboardist of The Doors. He passed away in 2013.

The concert/documentary was filmed at the Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles and brought surviving members from The Doors, guitarist Robby Krieger and drummer John Densmore, on stage for the first time in 15 years to celebrate Manzarek’s birthday. The film also includes performances from Foo Fighters’ Taylor Hawkins and Rami Jaffee, Stone Temple Pilots’ Robert DeLeo, Paul McCartney’s Brian Ray, X’s Exene and John Doe, Jane’s Addiction’s Stephen Perkins and Gov’t Mule’s Warren Haynes.

The Doors have announced a new concert documentary to honor the legacy of late keyboardist Ray Manzarek. The Doors: Break on Thru – A Celebration of Ray Manzarek will premiere in theaters around the world in a one-night only event on February 12th, which would have been Manzarek’s birthday. Tickets can be found at TheDoorsFilm.com.

Filmed at the Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles, California, in 2016, the “hybrid concert/documentary” will feature surviving Doors members Robby Krieger and John Densmore — on stage for the first time in 15 years — alongside...

When the Doors’ producer, Paul A. Rothchild, suggested adding orchestral strings and horns to guitarist Robby Krieger’s song “Touch Me,” Krieger was not happy. It was two years after Sgt. Pepper, and he says he was wary of the band being seen as copycats. “I said, ‘Oh, God. Now we’re copying the Beatles,’ and the Stones had just done their version of the orchestra thing,” he recalls. “So it was like we were keeping up with the Joneses or something.” Also, he worried the move might alienate the band’s fan base.

The Doors will include a trove of previously unreleased recordings on the upcoming 50th anniversary deluxe edition of their 1969 album, The Soft Parade, out October 18th.

The band teased the project with one such rarity: An raucous early version of their 1970 track “Roadhouse Blues” — which would appear on the band’s next album, Morrison Hotel — sung by organist Ray Manzarek, who’s cheekily billed as “Screamin’ Ray Daniels.”

The Soft Parade is one of the most controversial albums in the Doors’ catalogue, due to the string and horn arrangements on several tracks (one such song,...

Decades before UCLA’s school of Theater, Film and Television formally became one of the world’s top-ranking drama departments, the Southern California university’s arts program was synonymous with nurturing artists whose iconic work irrevocably transformed entertainment, and media itself, for the better.

Marking the first time a major university combined the three disciplines under one administration, UCLA Tft was established in 1990, simultaneously building on the history of the school’s storied curriculum, bolstering industry connections to reflect its impact and influence, and developing a network of facilities, instructors and experts to help prepare and accommodate students for a constantly changing entertainment landscape.

Even before 14-time Academy Awards telecast producer Gil Cates became its founding dean, UCLA’s fine arts departments were already part of a considerable legacy, with a list of famous alumni that included James Dean, Steve Martin, Paul Schrader, Francis Ford Coppola, Carroll Ballard, Rob Reiner,...

New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is home to an overwhelming collection of historical art objects, including a mummy mask from 60 A.D., Greek bronzes from the 8th century B.C. and the original “Washington Crossing the Delaware” painting. Starting April 8th, it will also welcome a different type of antiques — from the guitar Chuck Berry used to record “Johnny B. Goode” to the knives Keith Emerson would stab into his Hammond organ during the crazier Emerson, Lake & Palmer days.

In these days of GarageBand and samplers, it’s...

Chicago – At Chicago’s Michigan Avenue Magazine 10th Anniversary Issue event on September 11th, 2018, a surprise visitor joined cover celebrity Darren Criss, and his low-key appearance brought a stir of excitement to the room. Actor Kyle MacLachlan, best known for the extraordinary work in “Twin Peaks,” was in the house.

MacLachlan of course was Agent Dale Cooper, in the original run of “Twin Peaks” in 1990-91, the movie prequel “Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me” and the unforgettable 18 episode revisit to Tp by director/creator David Lynch, that played on the Showtime Network in 2017. But that’s not all for the Amazing Mr. MacLachlan. He is a prodigy of David Lynch, having made his debut in the director’s film version of “Dune” in 1984, followed by his godly turn in “Blue Velvet” (1986). He is also memorable in so many other roles, including Ray Manzarek in Oliver Stone’s “The Doors...

“What a great opener, ‘Hello, I love you, tell me your name,'” the Doors‘ drummer John Densmore says. “Like, whoa, Ok. That’s aggressive. You’re in love with me but you don’t know my credentials?”

He laughs and says that kind of pickup line was not frontman Jim Morrison’s style at all, even if he did write the lyrics. “He was sort of ‘Southern shy,'” the drummer says. “Well, if he got loaded, he got a little more open – a little too open sometimes.” But...

The Asbury Park Music & Film Festival announced today their film submission award winners at a ceremony held at the Asbury Hotel.

Hosted by two-time Gracie Award winner Shelli Sonstein this year’s winners included the Justin Kreutzmann-directed Break On Thru: A Celebration of Ray Manzarek and The Doors for Best Feature Film Award as well as Corinne Gray Ruff for Best Aspiring Female Director Award for The Oyster Farmers and Sarah Galloway winning the Asbury Park Press Award for Bike Riddim.

The Apmff benefits the underserved youth in Asbury Park, one of the most challenged youth communities in the country. Funds raised through the Apmff support music programs for these children. The fest continues to provide music education, instruments and social connection opportunities for children in underserved communities.

Read the complete winners list below.

Asbury Park Press Award

Bike Riddim

Directed by: Sarah Galloway

Rwj Barnabas Health Award

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The Doors' legendary performance at the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival will be available for the first time on DVD and CD February 23rd. The festival is thought to be the last filmed Doors concert. 

A new trailer for The Doors: Live at the Isle of Wight 1970 teases snippets of the Doors' 2 a.m. set and includes shots of them performing "Light My Fire" and "Break on Through." The clip also teases unique footage of the Isle of Wight crowd, a particular fascination of the film's director, Murray Lerner.

Live at...

The Doors' legendary performance at the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival will be available for the first time on DVD and CD February 23rd. The festival is thought to be the last filmed Doors concert. 

A new trailer for The Doors: Live at the Isle of Wight 1970 teases snippets of the Doors' 2 a.m. set and includes shots of them performing "Light My Fire" and "Break on Through." The clip also teases unique footage of the Isle of Wight crowd, a particular fascination of the film's director, Murray Lerner.

Live at...

Showcasing the Best in Independent and World Cinema

Thursday, October 5–15, 2017Acclaimed Festival Films From Around the World And New Offerings from Bay Area Filmmakers Highlight First Slate of Films Announced at 40th Mill Valley Film Festival

The Mill Valley Film Festival (Mvff), presented by the California Film Institute, has announced the first set of films to premiere at the 40th edition of the Festival, returning to Marin County October 5–15, 2017. The Festival will present the Bay Area premiere of many acclaimed films from the 2017 Cannes Film Festival, the 2017 Sundance Film Festival and the 2017 Berlin International Film Festival.

Additionally, Mvff will launch many acclaimed Bay Area filmmakers’ latest films as part of the Festival’s effort to showcase the many established and emerging filmmakers in the Bay Area.

Early Confirmed films from the 2017 Cannes Film Festival at MVFF40:

Ruben Östlund’s Palme d’Or Winner and Swedish Oscar Submission The Square...

Val Kilmer took to his Reddit account to share a video himself and his Doors co-stars rehearsing at L.A.'s legendary Whiskey a Go Go circa 1990. The short one-minute clip shows the actors performing The Doors' classic song "L.A. Woman" in the darkly lit Whiskey. Oliver Stone's The Doors received mixed reviews from critics and fans of the band upon its release in 1991, even the surviving band members were unhappy with the finished product. Doors members Robby Krieger, John Densmore, and Ray Manzarek were brought on as technical advisors on the movie, but claim that Oliver Stone often ignored their input in favor of his own retelling of history. One bright spot that critics and fans could agree upon was Val Kilmer's portrayal of Doors frontman Jim Morrison.

Val Kilmer originally uploaded the rehearsal footage to his YouTube account almost three years ago and shared the...

In 1968, the Doors decided to chronicle their life on the road and commissioned a crew to document their in-progress tour. The band would produce the project itself; singer Jim Morrison and keyboardist Ray Manzarek had met at UCLA’s film school, so they reached out to some of their old campus cohorts. “We had some of our film-school buddies follow us around and shoot,” says Doors guitarist Robby Krieger. “The idea was to make a documentary, a cinema verite kind of thing. [Jim and Ray] were all hot on the new kinds of...

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The Doors came onto the Los Angeles scene in the late sixties armed with just a handful of tunes, a limited amount of time spent together as a band and only a residency at the not so trendy London Fog as their splintered rung on the ladder to stardom. From this humble platform, the band performed and experimented and then performed some more, creating lengthy renditions of songs we’ve since come to love. Following a promotion to regular players at the Whisky a Go Go, the buzz around this wildly unpredictable band grew enough for Elektra Records president, Jac Holzman, to slip on his loafers and head on down to see what the fuss was about. What followed was a musical journey like no other.

The great thing about putting together a list focusing on The Doors’ greatest tracks is it reminds you that everything the band did was a group effort.

Happy 4th of July, my fellow Americans! Been a terrific six months for new music. Below are some of my favorite album releases that deserve early kudos at the half-way mark. 

The War on Drugs: Lost in the  Dream (Secretly Canadian)

Six months in and the Philly-based quartet The War on Drugs' third long player -- Lost in the Dream -- is their best and one of the best releases of 2014. Even with Kurt Vile leaving in 2011 for solo frontiers, Adam Granduciel soldiered on with his bandmates and crafted a superb album. Even with most of the songs clocking in over five minutes in length, and even with a rather pedestrian video (above), "Red Eyes" remains one of the catchiest indie rock tunes this side of New Order! The galloping guitar break is just sublime. Pick it up today!

tUnE-yArDs: Nikki Nack (4Ad)

The tribal drum groove is unmistakable and wildly infectious,...

Marilyn Manson will have a recurring role on the upcoming season of FX's hit biker drama, Sons of Anarchy, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The musician will portray a fittingly outrageous character: Ron Tully, a white supremacist who uses his reputation as a prison big shot to help Jax (Charlie Hunnam) expand his power base.

Marilyn Manson and 14 More Rock and Roll Rebels

"Sons has been such a big part of my life, as well as my father's," Manson said in a statement. "So I was determined to make him...

During his Best Actor acceptance speech at this year's Oscars, Matthew McConaughey slipped in a subtle allusion to David Wooderson, the eternal slacker he played in Richard Linklater's 1993 classic Dazed and Confused: After reflecting on the power of being one's own hero, the actor concluded his speech with a triumphant "All right, all right, all right," referencing a classic Wooderson scene (the one where he flirts with red-head Marissa Ribisi in a drive-thru).

Now, thanks to Canadian talk show host George Stroumboulopoulos, McConaughey fans know the true inspiration...

The Doors' Robby Krieger has been working on getting a bunch of musicians together to memorialize fellow band member, Ray Manzarek, who died last year. "We want to bring together those who Ray either idolized or guys who idolized Ray, maybe at the Greek or The Hollywood Bowl for a big concert this summer," he told The Hollywood Reporter. "We've teamed up with Live Nation and they are helping us get it all together. We just want it to be the best it can be." Video: Giorgio Moroder: Daft Punk's Disco Don Reflects on His Remarkable Re-Emergence

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Daft Punk, Lorde, Bruno Mars, Kacey Musgraves and Macklemore & Ryan Lewis were just a few of the big winners during the 56th annual Grammy Awards telecast, hosted by LL Cool J and broadcast live from the Staples Center in Los Angeles. LL declared that "music has the power to bring us together like nothing else in this world" before he urged everyone to "make some beautiful noise!" Read on for the recap!

For the List of Winners Click Here.

The Winners

The Grammys are all about the music, with most awards handed out before the event. During the telecast, Daft Punk's Random Access Memories won Album of the Year, while the Robot Duo's Get Lucky featuring Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers nabbed Record of the Year and Best Pop Duo/Group Performance. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis were named Best New Artist; the 17-year-old Lorde landed Song of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance for Royals; Unorthodox...

So sad. After disappearing on May 26, Cullen’s body was found in the woods in Baldwin, Michigan, police say.

Two days after calling his wife and saying he’s in danger, Cullen Finnerty’s death was confirmed by Lake County Sheriff Robert Hilts at a news conference on May 28. Cullen, a former Grand Valley State quarterback, was 30.

Cullen Finnerty: Dead At 30

“We were walking a good line,” Scott Boyd, who was on the search party that found the body, said to USA Today. “I squatted down. We had seen some trail. And a girl shouted. She walked right up on it. I thought, ‘Oh no.’ I can’t believe it.”

Cullen was found wearing fishing waders and a camouflaged jacket. There were no sings of foul play or any injuries.

“There was nothing obvious to us, to the view, of anything that would have caused his death,” Robert Hilts said.

Tune in alert for Smithsonian Chanel. Commemorating the passing of music legend Ray Manzarek, keyboardist for The Doors, Smithsonian Channel will air encore presentations of The Doors: Mr. Mojo Risin. - The Story of L.A. Woman throughout the next week. From Smithsonian One of the most influential rock bands of the 1960s, the Los Angeles group The Doors personified the turbulent era in America at the time with its raw form of rhythm-and-blues-inspired rock and its charismatic, poetic and unpredictable front man Jim Morrison. The Doors: Mr. Mojo Risin. - The Story Of L.A. Woman will air on Thursday, May 23 at 8pm and 11pm Et/Pt Sunday, May 26 at 10pm and 1am Et/Pt and Tuesday, May 28...

"The Doors" co-founder Ray Manzarek traveled across the world to seek out special world class treatment for his rare form of cancer ... which is why he was in Germany when he died, TMZ has learned.Sources close to Ray's most recent band -- The Manzarek-Rogers Band -- tell us, Ray did tons of research on the best places to get treatment for his bile duct cancer ... and his search led him to the RoMed Clinic in Rosenheim,...

London, May 21: The keyboard player and co-founder of rock band 'The Doors', Ray Manzarek, has died after a long battle with cancer. He was 74.

The veteran, who suffered from bile duct cancer- also known as adenocarcinoma- for several years, was surrounded by his wife Dorothy and brothers in hospital in Rosenheim, Germany, when he passed away, the Independent reported.

The band's guitarist Robby Krieger said in a statement: "I was deeply saddened to hear about the passing of my friend and bandmate Ray Manzarek today. I'm just glad to have been able to have played Doors songs with him for the last decade. Ray was a huge part.

Berlin, May 21: Veteran singer-songwriter Ray Manzarek died Monday night at his home in Rosenheim, Germany. He was suffering from cancer. He was 74.

"He had been fighting bile duct cancer," thesun.co.uk quoted Manzarek's publicist as saying.

Born in Chicago in 1939, Manzarek was the keyboardist with the legendary rock band band The Doors (1965) co-founded by Manzarek and Jim Morrison in Los Angeles.

The band, which also included drummer John Densmore and guitarist Robby Krieger, sold more than 100 million records worldwide.

They have given hits like "The End", "Light My Fire" and "Break On Through".

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Over forty years after his bandmate Jim Morrison died, Ray Manzarek of The Doors passed away on Monday (May 20).

According to his publicist, the 74-year-old keyboardist died in Germany after a long battle with bile duct cancer. He is survived by his two brothers, wife, son, and three grandchildren.

Back in 1965, the legendary group formed when Ray met Jim on Venice Beach, eventually going on to sell 32.5 million records in the United States and over 100 million worldwide.

Founding guitarist Robby Krieger issued a statement upon hearing the news, saying, "I was deeply saddened to hear about the passing of my friend and bandmate Ray Manzarek today. I’m just glad to have been able to have played Doors songs with him for the last decade. Ray was a huge part of my life and I will always miss him.”...