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From The Vault: Grateful Dead - "Sugar Magnolia"

In their many years together, the Grateful Dead came to mean a lot of things to their thousands of listeners and showgoers. Check out the Grateful Dead's performance of "Sugar Magnolia" at the Oakland Auditorium in Oakland, Calif. on Dec. 31, 1980.  read more

Mickey Hart Forms New Band

Percussionist Mickey Hart, formerly one of the dual drummers in psychedelic rock stalwarts The Grateful Dead, announced Friday that he is forming a new group, The Mickey Hart Band.  read more

The National Plan Grateful Dead Cover Album

The National spoke with Spinner during Coachella about plans for a Grateful Dead covers album for charity....  read more

Beatles' Tennis Shoes Hit The Streets

Recently, The Beatles and Apple Corporation gave French Commes des Garcons and Spring Court permission to create shoes branded with their logos....  read more

Who Should Play Jerry Garcia in A Biopic?

2010 is already shaping up to be a big year for Grateful Dead nostalgia, as fans mark the 15th anniversary of the passing of Jerry Garcia with everything from concerts to stadium nights....  read more

Ten Jam-Band Moments for People Who Hate Jam Bands

There may be no genre more derided than that of the jam band. There also may be no genre less defined. Are any bands who improvise onstage live jam bands? Must their fans smell afoul and have long, unwashed hair? Does incense have to be involved somehow? What about some funky guitar noodling from a white dude with a beard? Regardless of jam-band music having no real boundaries, haters, as they say, gotta hate. But rest assured, Phishophobics, there’s more to jam bands than you think. Here are 10 Jam Band Moments For People Who Hate Jam Bands. Or, if...  read more

Wolfgang's Vault to Release 160 Grateful Dead Concerts, Hundreds More for Digital Download

Wolfgang's Vault, collector of vintage concert recordings, has started to make more of its vast archive for online purchase, starting with the Grateful Dead's May 5, 1970 show at the Fillmore. ...  read more

Twenty Ridiculously Literal Album Covers

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Pearl Jamband: Is Pearl Jam a Modern Grateful Dead?

Pearl Jam has long been linked to flannel, but what about tie-dye? As the band closes in on its second decade making music, Pearl Jam and its follow-them-anywhere fans have slowly become one of the tightest communities in rock ’n’ roll, complete with a vibrant bootleg trade centered around the band’s ever-changing, much-lauded live show that many claim transcends the pomp and circumstance of normal rock shows for something more human. Sound like a mouthful? Sure. Sound like the Grateful Dead? Absolutely....  read more

Nile Songs: My Middle East & North Africa Playlist, Had I Accompanied President Obama to Egypt

President Obama gave a speech at Cairo University yesterday in which he reached out to Muslims, decried extremism and the murder of innocents, and outlined his administration's policies regarding a two-state solution for Israel and Palestine. Regardless of your views on the successes or shortcomings of the president's hotly debated speech, I'd bet us diehard music fans can all agree that there are some pretty amazingly cool songs inspired the Arab and Muslim cultures of the Middle East and North Africa.Had I been able to accompany the president on this historic trip, here are a few songs I would've loaded into...  read more