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Kubernik: The Doors 60th Anniversary, Record Store Day Releases
Photo of Jim Morrison by Henry Diltz, Courtesy of Gary Strobl at the Diltz Archive. 

Photo of Harvey Kubernik and Ray Manzarek by Heather Harris. 

All other images courtesy of Rhino. 

   In November, the Doors will kick off the 2025 60th Anniversary with a new anniversary logo, a series of physical releases, and anthology book, and much more to come. 

The Doors 1967-1971 6-LP set will arrive as the latest installment in Rhino’s acclaimed High Fidelity audiophile vinyl series on November 22nd, featuring all six of the band’s original studio albums cut from the original analog master tapes by Kevin Gray at Cohearant Audio. The vinyl was pressed at Optimal Media and the box includes a heavyweight gatefold jacket featuring rare photos and liner notes by Doors archivist David Dutkowski. Only 3,000 copies of the limited-edition set will be available exclusively at thedoors.com and rhino.com.

   Additionally, for Record Store Day’s Black Friday on November 29th, The Doors will release The Doors – Live in Detroit, featuring the band’s performance from the Cobo Arena in Detroit, Michigan on May 8, 1970. This 4-LP set will be available on vinyl for the first time. 

Captured on tape during the band's 1970 US tour, it was one of the band's longest performances. In fact, the band played for an hour past curfew and were then banned from the Cobo Arena on future tours. The fiery set includes a number of Blues covers, including "Back Door Man," Junior Parker's "Mystery Train," and "Crossroads" by Robert Johnson. The Doors also tear through a 17-minute-plus version of "The End," as well as an over 19-minute version of "Light My Fire" and other rare tracks such as "Love Hides." This collection captures the band at their absolute zenith.

   The Doors’ eponymous debut album - which the BBC and Rolling Stone have each hailed as one of the greatest debuts of all time - released in January 1967 and features the chart-topping smash-hit “Light My Fire,” the bluesy, growling “Back Door Man” and seminal live-set showstopper “The End,” with its legendary Oedipal spoken word section. 

   Having cemented their place in the rock pantheon and the psychedelic rock revolution, The Doors returned to the studio resulting in the anticipated follow-up, Strange Days, which went to number three on the US Billboard 200 and featured “Love Me Two Times” and “People Are Strange.”

   In 1968, the band released Waiting for the Sun, their first number one album featuring the chart-topping single “Hello, I Love You,” along with “Love Street” and “Five to One.” 

   The Doors then dove further into uncharted psychedelic territory with 1969’s string and horn-laden album The Soft Parade, which included the Krieger-penned hit “Touch Me.”

   1970’s Morrison Hotel,which boasts fan favorites “Roadhouse Blues” and “Peace Frog,” took the band back to its bluesy roots. 1971’s L.A.Woman, the band’s final album with Morrison and recorded in the band’s rehearsal space, features “Riders on the Storm,” “Love Her Madly” and the title track.

   During their brief time together, The Doors delivered six studio albums before Morrison’s untimely death in Paris in 1971. Their electrifying achievements in the studio and onstage remain unmatched in the annals of rock, and today they remain as one of the best-selling bands of all time with over 100 million records sold worldwide. 

   In 1993 the band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Several years later, the songs “Light My Fire” and “Riders on the Storm” along with The Doors’ debut album were inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. The Library of Congress also recognized the band, selecting their self-titled album for inclusion in the National Recording Registry in 2014. The Doors also received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2007.

Created to commemorate the upcoming 60th anniversary, The Doors’ first-ever complete anthology book Night Divides the Day will illuminate the band’s archives like never before with rare photography, intimate interviews with Robby Krieger and John Densmore, and meticulously sourced archival text from Jim Morrison and Ray Manzarek. With unlimited access granted by the band, Night Divides the Day includes a unique collection of historical ephemera – including childhood photos, song lyrics, poster artwork, movie stills, and much more – which adds context to the wealth of rare photography that documents the band’s musical odyssey.

   Joining Robby and John are a host of contributors, with a foreword by Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic, and afterword by maestro Gustavo Dudamel. The anthology is presented in a limited-edition of only 2,000 numbered box sets, each hand-signed by Densmore and Krieger. Each set includes the 344-page signed edition, a 7” vinyl record with rare demos of “Hello, I Love You” and “Moonlight Drive,” and other assorted historical memorabilia. Available for pre-order now.

I went to a Doors concert at the Fabulous Forum in Inglewood, California, on December 14, 1968.

     On the bill were Jerry Lee Lewis, Sweetwater, and Tzon Yen Luie, who performed with a Chinese stringed instrument, the pipa. I am still recovering from that rendition of “Celebration of the Lizard,” and the Doors performing with a string and brass section with Curtis Amy.   

    In 1973 I coordinated two accredited upper-division English and music curriculum courses conducted by Dr. James L. Wheeler, assistant professor in the School of Literature at California State University, San Diego. A story in the April 14, 1973, issue of Billboard magazine reported the department’s academic aim as “the world’s first university level rock studies program.”  I placed Jim Morrison’s The Lords and the New Creatures on the required book list.

    Ray Manzarek heard about our classes and was very complimentary about students seriously studying Jim as a poet, along with the musical works of Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones, the Impressions, Leonard Cohen, The Band, Jefferson Airplane, the Beatles, Donovan, and Laura Nyro.

    One evening, Ray and associate Danny Sugerman made arrangements for me to screen the existing print of Jim Morrison’s Feast of Friends movie on campus.

      Ray penned the Foreword to my 2009 book Canyon of Dreams: The Magic and the Music of Laurel Canyon.  

     “I knew Jim was a great poet, Manzarek told me in 20004. "That’s why we put the band together in the first place. It was going to be poetry together with rock ‘n’ roll.  Not like poetry and jazz. Or like it, it was poetry and jazz from the ‘50s, except we were doing poetry and rock ‘n’ roll. And our version of rock ‘n’ roll was whatever you could bring to the table. I loved his poetry. The fact that he was doing ecological poetry. But don’t forget in late 1967, and the potheads were aware. That’s what was so great about marijuana opening the doors of perception. The pot heads were the first mass ecological movement. I hope they continue on and continue it into future because it’s our obligation to save the planet.  We were working in the future space. And many things have come to fruition that Jim Morrison wrote about.” 

       In 2016, I spoke with Robby Krieger.  

       ‘“Wild Child’ from The Soft Parade is one of my favorites because it’s live. That one didn’t need strings or horns.

    “When we did the first Doors’ album Jim was totally un-experienced in the studio as far as recording his vocals. He had a year with his voice playing live every night. He had never done anything in the studio. And I think by the time The Soft Parade came around his voice had matured a lot as far as low notes and range. I don’t think he could have sung ‘Touch Me’ nearly as good if that was on our first album.”

Harvey Kubernik is the author of 20 books, including 2009’s Canyon Of Dreams: The Magic And The Music Of Laurel Canyon, 2014’s Turn Up The Radio! Rock, Pop and Roll In Los Angeles 1956-1972, 2015's Every Body Knows: Leonard Cohen, 2016's Heart of Gold Neil Young and 2017's 1967: A Complete Rock Music History of the Summer of Love.       Sterling/Barnes and Noble in 2018 published Harvey and Kenneth Kubernik’s The Story Of The Band: From Big Pink To The Last Waltz. In2021 the duo wrote Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child for Sterling/Barnes and Noble. 

   Otherworld Cottage Industries in 2020 published Harvey’s Docs That Rock, Music That Matters.

   He is currently writing a book Screen Gems: (Pop Music Documentaries and Rock ‘n’ Roll Television Moments) for 2025 publication.    

        Kubernik is in several book anthologies, most notably, The Rolling Stone Book Of The Beats and Drinking With Bukowski.   Harvey wrote the liner notes to CD re-releases of Carole King’s Tapestry, The Essential Carole King, Allen Ginsberg’s Kaddish, Elvis Presley The ’68 Comeback Special, The Ramones’ End of the Century and Big Brother & the Holding Company Captured Live at The Monterey International Pop Festival.  

  During 2006 Harvey spoke at the special hearings initiated by The Library of Congress held in Hollywood, California, discussing archiving practices and audiotape preservation. In 2017 Kubernik appeared at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio, in their heralded Distinguished Speakers Series.The post Kubernik: The Doors 60th Anniversary, Record Store Day Releases first appeared on Music Connection Magazine.

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PJ Harvey Welcomes L.A. Into Her WorldPhotos by Natalie Somekh

Sometimes a concert is more than a concert. Yes, it's easy to get heavy with the grandiosity at moments like this, to engage in music-critic-bullshittery and word-salad-wankery. But an evening with PJ Harvey really is a very special affair. Not since this writer saw Leonard Cohen over a decade ago has an artist had the ability to fully transport the audience into their artistic vision. No crazy pyro or props; rather, Harvey's methods are musical, enhanced by subtle lighting and smoke. Her words and melodies, movements and musicality, carry us away with her.

That's massively because of the first part of the set, which sees Harvey perform last year's I Inside the Old Year Dying album in its entirety. Despite the critical praise that was heaped upon the album, it still feels like to crept under the radar a little, at least in terms of mainstream acceptance. Because the album is a masterpiece. Elements of folk and classical music interweave with prog rock and the '90s alternative rock scene that she emerged from three decades ago. It's a whirly-spin of emotions, Shakespearean in its tail-flick from tragedy to calm.

So her sound has as much to do with Vivaldi, the Fairport Convention and Clannad as it does Tori Amos or any of her other contemporaries. It fully immerses itself in a grounded-yet-fantastical old world that Taylor Swift drove at with Folklore and Evermore, Melanie Martinez with Portals. Harvey's fans may balk at those comparisons, but they shouldn't. Despite Swift's and Martinez's clear desire to stretch limbs and explore these new worlds, there's the nagging feeling that they're still beholden to "pop" -- that something is holding them back. PJ Harvey doesn't have these issues.

Perhaps it's telling that I Inside the Old Year Dying is her first album on an independent label (Partisan) since her Dry debut in '92. She's only answering to herself. Then again, that might be a touch unfair; it's not as if the eight albums she released on Island/Universal felt hampered by corporate influences. She's really always played the game her way anyway.

To pick out tracks from the new album performed in the first part of the set would be a redundant exercise. The whole thing flows so beautifully, orchestrally, peaking and troughing as we find ourselves floating on a carpet of Harvey's words. Surrounded by the trees up at the Greek Theatre, it's hard to imagine a more appropriate venue for this music (maybe Red Rocks in Denver).

The second part of the set began with the folk-stomp of "The Colour of the Earth" from 2011's Let England Shake, Harvey letting her band run through that one without her. She reemerged for "The Glorious Land" and "The Words That Maketh Murder" from the same album, then she pulled out the classic "50ft Queenie" from 1993's sophomore, Steve Albini-produced Rid of Me. That song injected some welcome crunch into the evening, highlighting the dynamics that Harvey is capable of.

We also get "Dress" from Dry, and three songs from 1995's incredible To Bring You My Love. When the end comes, the vibe from the audience is one of waking from a dream. Somehow, we all have to give our heads a shake and find our way home. But this is an experience that will live with us for some time to come.

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FM Transmitter Remotely Controlled Via ESP32Imagine you’ve got an FM transmitter located some place. Wouldn’t it be mighty convenient if you could control that transmitter remotely? That way, you wouldn’t have to physically attend to it every time you had to change some minor parameters! To that end, [Ricardo Lima Caratti] built a rig to do just that.
The build is based around the QN8066—a digital FM transceiver built into a single chip. It’s capable of transmitting and receiving anywhere from 60 MHz to 108 MHz, covering pretty much all global FM stereo radio bands. [Ricardo] paired this chip with an ESP32 for command and control. The ESP32 hosts an HTTP server, allowing the administration of the FM transmitter via a web browser. Parameters like the frequency, audio transmission mode, and Radio Data Service (RDS) information can be controlled in this manner.
It’s a pretty neat little build, and [Ricardo] demonstrates it on video with the radio transmitting some field day content. We’ve seen some other nifty FM transmitters over the years, too. Video after the break.

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Teardowns Show Off Serious Satellite HardwareAs hackers, we’re always pulling stuff apart—sometimes just to see what it’s like inside. Most of us have seen the inside of a computer, television, and phone. These are all common items that we come into contact with every day. Fewer of us have dived inside real spacey satellite hardware, if only for the lack of opportunity. Some good gear has landed on [Don]’s desk over the years though, so he got to pulling it apart and peering inside.
[Don] starts us off with a gorgeous… box… of some sort from Hughes Aircraft. He believes it to be from their Space & Communications group, and it seems to have something to do with satellite communications work. Externally, he gleans that it takes power and data hookups and outputs RF to, something… but he’s not entirely sure. Inside, we get a look at the old 90s electronics — lots of through hole, lots of big chunky components, and plenty of gold plating. [Don] breaks down the circuitry into various chunks and tries to make sense of it, determining that it’s got some high frequency RF generators in the 20 to 40 GHz range.
Scroll through the rest of [Don]’s thread and you’ll find more gems. He pulls apart a microwave transmitter from Space Micro — a much newer unit built somewhere around 2008-2011. Then he dives into a mysterious I/O board from Broad Reach, and a very old Hughes travelling wave tube from the 1970s. The latter even has a loose link to the Ford Motor Company, believe it or not.
Even if you don’t know precisely what you’re looking at, it’s still supremely interesting stuff—and all very satellite-y. We’ve seen some other neat satellite gear pulled apart before, too. Meanwhile, if you’ve been doing your own neat teardowns, don’t hesitate to let us know!

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Viral hit The Spark by Irish youth group has been longlisted for two Grammy AwardsViral drum ‘n’ bass track The Spark, created by an Irish youth group, has been longlisted for two Grammy Awards.
The song was made by a supergroup of children from across Ireland. Created by the Kabin Crew in Cork, it was then completed with help from children from a refugee centre in Clare, known as the Lisdoonvarna Crew. It gained both media attention and virality across TikTok and Instagram since it was released last May.

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The Spark has made the longlist for both Best Dance/Electronic Recording and Song of the Year. The final shortlist for the 2025 Grammy Awards will be announced on 2 November. The ceremony for the awards, which will mark its 67th year, will take place in Los Angeles on 2 February next year.
You can remind yourself of the hit track below, that’s if you’ve ever managed to get it out of your head since it was released:

The Spark was recorded at The Kabin Studio, a youth music space housed in a repurposed metal container in Knocknaheeny, Cork. The studio was set up in 2012 with the support of Music Generation Cork City. The song was originally made as part of its Rhyme Island initiative for the Cruinniú na nÓg festival, an annual event championing young creativity. At the time of writing, it has over six million views on YouTube alone.
Creative director of The Kabin Studio, known as GMCBeats (real name Garry McCarthy), shared their Grammy longlist news on Instagram earlier this October: “What a mad few months this has been! A song that we created for the Rhyme Island initiative with the crew of legendary kids and tutors at The Kabin and in Lisdoonvarna is longlisted for the Grammys,” he wrote. You can check out his post below:

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LANDR Composer is an AI-driven plugin for creating chord progressions, melodies and harmoniesOnline mastering and music creation platform LANDR has acquired Orb Plugins, and quickly put its expertise in AI plugins to use with the all-new LANDR Composer. Driven by AI, the plugin aims to support artists in generating chord progressions, basslines, melodies and harmonies.
Essentially an enhanced version of Orb’s existing Orb Producer Pro plugin, LANDR Composer “integrates the best of Orb’s powerful assistive intelligence algorithms into LANDR’s ecosystem, offering an intuitive, efficient, and refreshing experience for creators at every level”.

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New features brought by LANDR Composer include:

Assistive Chord Generation: Automatically create and tweak complex chord progressions and individual chords.
Assistive MIDI Generation: For generating unique chord, bassline, melody and arpeggio performances.
Scenes and Song Mode: Organise and arrange multiple musical ideas into a full composition.

Chord Progression Guide: Edit, move, and refine chords to perfect your harmonic sequences.

Preset Sounds and MIDI Editing: Use the built-in synthesizer to generate sounds and edit MIDI with a piano roll for precise control.

Performance Modifiers: Using simple controls, you can easily modify musical elements of MIDI-generated patterns, such as polyphony and humanization.

Drag-and-Drop Integration: Easily drag MIDI patterns into your DAW.

“We are thrilled to welcome Orb Plugins products to LANDR and to introduce LANDR Composer as a key part of our suite of creative tools,” says Pascal Pilon, Founder and CEO of LANDR. “Our mission has always been to make music creation accessible to all by providing high-quality, cutting-edge tools. This recent acquisition has allowed us to enhance the unique technology developed and refined by the Orb team over the past decade and add new features that bring even more fun and excitement to the music creation process, all while maintaining complete creative control for artists.”
Adds Richard Portelli, CEO of AI music tool maker Hexachords: “As the CEO of Hexachords, I’m excited about the synergy between Orb’s innovative technology and LANDR’s cutting-edge products. This integration combines our strengths, offering music makers a more seamless and enriched creative experience. With this acquisition, LANDR will be able to push the boundaries of what’s possible, bringing enhanced features and fresh inspiration to artists everywhere.”
You can find out more about LANDR Composer below:

LANDR Composer is available both as part of selected LANDR Studio subscription plans, and individually for $149. For more information, head to LANDR.
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How to Stand Out on Spotify Wrapped 2024: A Musicians GuideSpotify has signaled that its 2024 Wrapped will launch soon. This guide on How to Stand Out on Spotify Wrapped 2024 offers a simple roadmap for every musician to become part of this global music phenomenon.
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