Jim Morrison

The Manson Murders

Swelter

Swelter

This Means Lore!

The housewife who saved FDR's life, the ghosts that roam Vizcaya, the sea serpent of Biscayne Bay, and other Miami legends, yarns, and flat-out lies

Swelter

The housewife who saved FDR's life, the ghosts that roam Vizcaya, the sea serpent of Biscayne Bay, and other Miami legends, yarns, and flat-out lies

Kurt Feelings

Oh well, whatever, never mind

Kickin' Brass

You won't cry for Argentina's Los Fabulosos Cadillacs

The Summer After the Summer of Love

It may not get its due, but 1968 helped alter rock's reality.

A Rocker Reborn

Dave Grohl refuses to take death lying down.

The Good Old Grove

A new bar keeps up old traditions

The Saddest Club of All

A new bar keeps up old traditions

Country Comfort

The 18 Wheelers prove you can go down home again

Get Disturbed

At Centro Cultural Español, Hispanic artists go radical on culture

Queen with Paul Rodgers

At Centro Cultural Español, Hispanic artists go radical on culture

The Black Angels

"The Sniper at the Gates of Heaven" (Light in the Attic)

BEST LEATHER

Recycled Blues

THIS JUST IN

Recycled Blues

Adam Green

Gemstones Rough Trade

Night on Fire

On any given weekend, CocoWalk teems with a young and racially diverse party crowd

Plastikman

Closer (Mute/M-nus)

This Week's Day by Day Picks

Closer (Mute/M-nus)

Botox Rules!

Janice Dickinson personified high-fashion shoots and Hollywood trysts. Now modeling's original bad girl explores life beyond the runway.

Strange Trip It's Been

All the rockin' history of Miami you'll ever need to know

Rockin' MAM

Rock & Roll/JAM at MAM

In Defense of the Gods of Grunge

Rock & Roll/JAM at MAM

Door to Doors

Rock & Roll/JAM at MAM

Everybody's a Critic

In Miami Beach, experts are enlisted to commission artworks for public spaces. Too bad city officials refuse to listen to them.

Blond Angel's Death Song

In Miami Beach, experts are enlisted to commission artworks for public spaces. Too bad city officials refuse to listen to them.

Generalissimo Francis

In Miami Beach, experts are enlisted to commission artworks for public spaces. Too bad city officials refuse to listen to them.

Charlie Crist Gives a Little Thought to Jim Morrison's Public Exposure

Forty years ago at the (soon to be demolished) Dinner Key Auditorium in Coconut Grove Jim Morrison, a man who became famous for his music when he wasn't busy be addicted to drugs and alcohol, allegedly attempted to masturbate on stage and got slapped with public exposure charges. He was se ... More >>

Jerry Powers, the man behind Ocean Drive, refuses to surrender

Forty years ago at the (soon to be demolished) Dinner Key Auditorium in Coconut Grove Jim Morrison, a man who became famous for his music when he wasn't busy be addicted to drugs and alcohol, allegedly attempted to masturbate on stage and got slapped with public exposure charges. He was se ... More >>

Who Killed Camilo Cienfuegos?

Photo via Patriagrande.net​Today marks the 50th anniversary of the mysterious disappearance of Camilo Cienfuegos, a Cuban revolutionary who combined the bohemian aura and looks of Jim Morrison (a full decade earlier) with the flowing, catlike moves of a Bruce Lee. (He was said to kill the enemy an ... More >>

Random Venue Review: Pulp Live

CC by 2.0, via stopnlook's FlickrBring plenty of bills to Pulp Live -- performing bands, this means you, too.​This past weekend I made a belated first visit to Pulp Live, the venue on Oakland Park Boulevard that was known previously as the Metal Factory. I went to see friends play, so I won't revi ... More >>

Video: Jim Morrison Interview in Miami, 1970, Talking About The Doors' Miami Incident

Lizard King Jim Morrison, one of the most influential American rock singers ever, was born in Melbourne, Florida on December 8, 1943.He went to UCLA film school, graduated, and hung out on Venice Beach, where he and Ray Manzarek started The Doors.There's a famous incident that took place at Dinne ... More >>

Glimpse the New Doors Doc at the Vagabond April 20

It's not exactly comforting, but the bond between all humans is death. And just like the rest of us, Jim Morrison ended up a fat, flatulent corpse in a Paris bathtub. Unlike most people, however, the Lizard King was a rock star, so he was only 27 when it came time to nod off into non-existence. Mo ... More >>

Castro Death Meter: Fidel is 88% Dead, 79% Insane

​What is up with El Comandante these days? Have Fidel Castro's handlers been slipping amphetamines into his banana pudding? Take a look at the rampage he's been on in the last month or so:

Buju Banton Rides Drug Trial Up the Charts As Fans Demand His Release

​Just ask Tupac, Lil' Wayne, or, hell, even Jim Morrison: sometimes a good stint behind bars is just what the spin doctor ordered for selling a ton of records. You may as well add Buju Banton to that list, because even as the reggae star languishes in a Tampa-area jail awaiting retrial on federal ... More >>

Charlie Crist May Finally Pardon Jim Morrison

​Back in 1969, The Doors came to the Dinner Key theater in Miami and gave one of the more infamous concerts in Rock'n'Roll history. Lead singer Jim Morrison ended up getting arrested for allegedly whipping out his peen, shouting obscenities, performing a simulated beej on a bandmate, and bein ... More >>

Jim Morrison's Junk! Charlie Crist Confirms the Lizard Kings's Candidacy for Pardon

Jimmy Mojo in Dade County Clink.​Really ... Why are boomers so obsessed with cleansing rock stars of their sins? Almost 42 years ago, chubby junkie, Doors mojo master, and FSU dropout Jim Morrison showed up in Coconut Grove's Dinner Key Auditorium, got extremely wasted, tried to sing " ... More >>

Charlie Crist Will Pardon Jim Morrison

After the failed debacle of his Independent senate run Charlie Crist's legacy is in grave danger, so it's no surprise he's decided to become the "guy who finally pardoned Jim Morrison." After indicating he was open to pardoning The Doors frontman of indecency charges stemming from an infamous 1969 M ... More >>

Katherine Fernandez Rundle Won't Fight Jim Morrison Pardon

​Without admitting Jim Morrison was railroaded by Miami-Dade's criminal justice system 40 years ago, Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle says her office won't fight Charlie Crist's pardon of The Doors iconic dead lead singer.The county's top cop claims the recession is the reason ... More >>

Jim Morrison Pardon Coming This Morning, But Local Rockers Ask Crist Not To Stop There (Update: It's Official)

No longer a suspected dong-dangler.​At last, our long national nightmare is over: the long deceased Jim Morrison will no longer have a record for drunkenly dangling his dong at a Miami concert. But while Morrison's pardon -- which should be made official at 9 a.m. -- closes a sordid footnote in ro ... More >>

I Was There: The Doors' Miami Concert was a Mythic Ripoff

So the State of Florida has pardoned Doors front man Jim Morrison. That may be a good thing for artistic freedom and all, but I still want my money back. I was a kid living in Westchester when my friend's parents took the neighborhood gang to see our favorite band at Dinner Key auditorium on that M ... More >>

We were at the Jim Morrison concert, and we want a refund

So the State of Florida has pardoned Doors front man Jim Morrison. That may be a good thing for artistic freedom and all, but I still want my money back. I was a kid living in Westchester when my friend's parents took the neighborhood gang to see our favorite band at Dinner Key auditorium on that M ... More >>

Keeping Score

So the State of Florida has pardoned Doors front man Jim Morrison. That may be a good thing for artistic freedom and all, but I still want my money back. I was a kid living in Westchester when my friend's parents took the neighborhood gang to see our favorite band at Dinner Key auditorium on that M ... More >>

Ice Cream Talks Dessert Food, Being the Satanic Strokes, and the New Split Release With Animal Tropical

Photo by Marta Xochilt Perez​Ice Cream falls somewhere between punk and psychedelia, DWNTWN and the suburbs, children's lullabies and real rock. This young quartet plays curious, kooky music that pairs moaning, Jim Morrison-like incantations with eerie-but-poppy compositions. The band has been a ... More >>

Prunk TV and Holly Hunt's Gavin Perry Talk Guitars, Jim Morrison, and Speaking in Tongues

Photo by Niuvis MartinShredding with Holly Hunt's Gavin Perry.​Have you met Holly Hunt, the fairly new skull-crushing doom metal atmospheric sludge band that's taking Miami by storm? The band's two members -- Gavin Perry and Beatriz Monteavaro -- are both visual artists who live and work in Miami ... More >>

Holly Hunt, Shroud Eater, Ether, Orbweaver, and Slashpine at Churchill's July 21

Photo by Niuvis MartinShredding with Holly Hunt's Gavin Perry.​Have you met Holly Hunt, the fairly new skull-crushing doom metal atmospheric sludge band that's taking Miami by storm? The band's two members -- Gavin Perry and Beatriz Monteavaro -- are both visual artists who live and work in Miami ... More >>

Ten Rock Star Members of the Dead at 27 Club

​Amy Winehouse's death has inspired numerous discursive threads, including speculation about her yet-to-be-revealed cause of death, the paparazzi (and YouTube's) hyperdocumentation of her slow unraveling, and the deep tragedy of the young singer's thorny personal life. In the face of much morbid, ... More >>

Reader mail: "Eminem is the greatest rapper alive"

​Amy Winehouse's death has inspired numerous discursive threads, including speculation about her yet-to-be-revealed cause of death, the paparazzi (and YouTube's) hyperdocumentation of her slow unraveling, and the deep tragedy of the young singer's thorny personal life. In the face of much morbid, ... More >>