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Featured News
The Doors new documentary and Live at the Aquarius Theatre: The First Performance
By Harvey Kubernik
The Doors’ 60th anniversary celebration continues with the re-release of Tom DiCillo’s Grammy award-winning documentary film When You’re Strange. Remastered in 4 -
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Brian Wilson 1942-2025
By Harvey Kubernik
On June 11, 2025, Brian Douglas Wilson, co-founder of the Beach Boys died.
During February 2024 he had been diagnosed with dementia, and three months later Wilson en -
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Lotti Golden’s Motor-Cycle Reissued by High Moon Records
By Harvey Kubernik I remember in late 1969 when an acquaintance of mine, Heather Harris, an editor at the UCLA Daily Bruin Entertainment pages, received a copy of the Bob Crewe-produced Lotti Golden debut LP Motor-Cycle on Atlantic Records. Harris, and another concert pal of mine, Nancy Rose Retchin at Palisades High School, were big fans of Laura Nyro, and both knew I liked female...
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