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Jerry Garcia might not strike one as the most likely of priests...but to his fans and generations of listeners, he was indeed ...
Beth Sunflower ’s images of rhythm guitarist Bob Weir in jail is proof of an October 2, 1967, drug bust at 710 Ashbury, where ...
Reflections on family, legacy, and longevity from the GD60 celebrations in San Francisco with Dead & Company, Grahame Lesh, and more.
If a song got dropped from the live repertoire of the Grateful Dead, there was a problem with it. Here, we look back at the ...
Onetime Grateful Dead keyboardist Tom Constanten is facing some medical challenges and is seeking financial help.
The Making of Born to Run,’ writer Peter Ames Carlin interviews Springsteen, his manager Jon Landau, and members of the E ...
The Doug Irwin-certified Dire Wolf Bass inspired by Jerry Garcia's “Wolf” guitar and played by Oteil Burbridge has officially hit the market.
It’s been more than 60 years since a guitar-toting Bob Dylan arrived in Greenwich Village and changed the course of popular ...
How could I “hate” a band when I couldn’t name more than one or two of their songs? With the assistance of my friend Rob Mitchum, I started sampling their voluminous collection of live shows, and to ...
In 1966, the Dead were not political, at least not in the sense in which we are accustomed to considering politics. But these were inherently political days in California. Culture and politics swirled ...
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Today in Music History for Aug. 13: In 1820, engineer and musicologist Sir George Grove, compiler of "Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians," was born in London.
Rapper King Yella fell off his chair after drinking nearly an entire bottle of whiskey during an on-camera interview with Cam ...