The Grateful Dead

Grateful Dead Fans Rejoice: Phil Lesh Expands Terrapin Crossroads

Back in March, former Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh opened a picturesque restaurant and bar called Terrapin Crossroads in San Rafael. Since then, it's come to be known as a home for Lesh and friends (and, um, Phil Lesh & Friends) to play live whenever the whim strikes. In two weeks, the complex, n ... More >>

Jerry Garcia 70th Birthday Tribute Includes Huge Guest Roster, Will Be Streamed Online

The Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia would have turned 70 this Aug. 1, 2012, and to celebrate, fellow Dead member Bob Weir and a ton of other musicians are throwing Move Me Brightly, a Garcia tribute show that will be live-streamed from Weir's own TRI Studios in San Rafael. The list of musical guests f ... More >>

The Psychic World of Stanley Krippner: A quest to document ESP

The Top 20 Greatest San Francisco Musicians, Nos. 5-1

See also: * The Top 20 Greatest San Francisco Musicians: Honorable Mentions * The Top 20 Greatest San Francisco Musicians, Nos. 20-16 * The Top 20 Greatest San Francisco Musicians, Nos. 15-11 * The Top 20 Greatest San Francisco Musicians, Nos. 10-6 Here it is: After a week-long countdown, we br ... More >>

The Top 20 Greatest San Francisco Musicians: The Complete List

See also: * The Top 20 Greatest San Francisco Musicians: Honorable Mentions Here they are -- the 20 greatest San Francisco musicians ever: 20. Cameron Paul Lists of pioneering American DJs often mention the usual suspects in New York and Chicago, but go back to the '70s and '80s and you'll find ... More >>

Watch: Bob Weir Performs with Members of the National in San Rafael

Former Grateful Dead frontman Bob Weir threw quite a party at his new TRI Studios in San Rafael this weekend: Weir invited a bunch of East Coast musicians, including three members of the National, out for a special in-studio jam called the Bridge Session that was broadcast live over the web. The tw ... More >>

Live Review, 1/25/12: Bob Weir Reunites with RatDog at Tamalpais Research Institute

Bob Weir and RatDog last night in Marin. All photos by Ashley Jordan Gordon.​ RatDog Jan. 25, 2012 Tamalpais Research Institute Better than: The Internet sensations of today. Grateful Dead founding member Bob Weir put the finishing touches on his live HD webcasting venue and studio, San Rafa ... More >>

Grateful Dead Videogame Comes with Rock 'n' Roll, Lacks Sex and Drugs

He wants YOU! to trip balls. Or at least we wish he did.​ If wine, golf balls, snowboards, and a $400, 73-CD box set weren't enough to spend your nostalgia fund on, the folks behind the Grateful Dead's shrewd new merchandising campaign have come up with something else: A videogame. It's calle ... More >>

Wine Clubs Are the Coffin Nails of Rock 'n' Roll

Remember the good old days, when wine clubs were exclusively the pastime of pretentious assholes/your parents? Those days are over: Rolling Stone magazine just announced its own scheme to sell bottles of fermented grape juice to baby boomers with nothing better to blow their pension checks on. So w ... More >>

So There Might Be a New Movie About the Haight-Ashbury in the '60s, Featuring Actual Grateful Dead Songs

A new itch for merchandising, a fanbase now on the side of life that comes with plenty of cash to spend on nostalgia, and a poverty of original ideas coming out of Hollywood: What's a hugely adored band like the Grateful Dead to do? Why, commission an Across the Universe-style film featuring its or ... More >>

Five Things to Know About the Grateful Dead's New Licensing Efforts

The 1960s Grateful Dead, inside their house at 710 Ashbury St., S.F.​ After years of keeping the band's considerable legacy on the down-low in terms of merchandise and licensing, the surviving members of the Grateful Dead are ramping things up. As the L.A. Times explains today, that doesn't me ... More >>

Links: Classical's Cafe Revolution, Bay Bridged's Regional Bias, and the Outside Lands 2011 Poster

​ Classical music moves out of the concert hall and into the cafe. [The Bay Citizen] Local music blog the Bay Bridged, now five years old (!), is holding its annual fundraiser/birthday party this weekend. [The Bay Bridged]

Sen. Tom Coburn, Who Is Not a Deadhead, Thinks the Grateful Dead Archive Is a Waste of Money

Tom Coburn, ungrateful non-head.​Earlier today, one senator from Oklahoma named Tom Coburn released a list of what his tight-fisted self considers the most wasteful federal spending of 2010.Number four on that list is a $615,000 grant given to UC Santa Cruz for a massive archive of Grateful Dead m ... More >>

Kazoo Record Attempt at Tonight's Jerry Garcia-Themed Giants Game

Jerry Garcia says: 'Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.' So root for the Giants.​Sorry folks, the Jerry Garcia bobblehead is no longer available. But fans can keep on truckin' with a Guinness Record attempt for largest kazoo ensemble during tonight's festivities hon ... More >>

Are the Grateful Dead Really the Great American Band?

Jay BlakesbergThe essence of America?​What is the Great American Band?This was a question posed by esteemed rock writer Michael Azerrad over the past July 4th weekend. After due consideration of Fugazi, R.E.M., the Replacements (whom we're obviously fond of/indebted to), and others, Azerrad settle ... More >>

Get on the Air Guitar Guest List

Made famous by Hendrix and The Grateful Dead, it's only appropriate The Fillmore plays host this Saturday to the Annual San Francisco Air Guitar Regional Championships, a celebration of one of the geekiest yet most passionate dance forms. The regional champion will get the chance to compete in the ... More >>

Works by Manson Family pal Bobby BeauSoleil’s Orkustra compiled on double album

Eight (One-Hit) Wonders of The Bay Area

One-hit wonders are often maligned in music, but the truth is it's pretty hard and pretty remarkable to achieve success on the pop charts. As we slowly wrap up December's reflections into music history, behold the eight most awesome one-hit wonders that the Bay Area has produced:8. The Greg Kihn Ban ... More >>

Messrs. Gorgeous

Deadiquette: Common Deadhead courtesies demystified

Bob Weir's cutoffs not going to Grateful Dead archive

Radiohead's 'In Rainbows' Site Killed By Popularity

Rich Unterberger brings rare rock flicks to the Haight

Go for the Jug-ular

Sweet Blossom, Come On

Sixties Flashback

Sounds of the Summer of Love echo through today

The Band

Live at Watkins Glen (Capitol)

Dead Like Me

Attempting to survive 11 straight hours of the Grateful Dead

V/A

World Psychedelic Classics 3: Love's a Real Thing

Party Train

Janis, the Dead, the Band, and others take the happiest trip of their lives

Best Desecration of a City Landmark

Haight-Ashbury Gap

A Jury of Their Peers

We asked two local musicians to sound off on the latest and greatest from their fellow practitioners.

Best Bar With Bottomless Snacks

Seasons Bar

Dog Bites

Dead, But Not Dead Enough; A Click Down Memory Lane

The New Tweedy Brothers

The New Tweedy Bros! (Ridon/Shadoks)

Tool(s) of the Man

Mickey Hart is still pursuing that perfect beat -- in words, sound, and even government service

Apocalypse Then

Altamont slammed the door on rock 'n' roll's dream of peace and love. An insider remembers.

A Minor Forest

So, Were They in Some Sort of Fight?

Riff Raff

Dead Again

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

Slap Shots

Recordings

Night Crawler

SF Weekly Picks

Recordings

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