The music digs deep into the Grateful Dead discography with creative re-imaginations infused with the ebullient spirit of New Orleans Second Line, trance-like grooves of Afrobeat, brass-driven ...

Filming the Grateful Dead’s MTV-era music video for "Hell in a Bucket" was one long, strange trip. Len Dell’Amico, the band’s "film and video guy," has written a new memoir, "Friend of the ...

"When Phil's happening, the band's happening," Grateful Dead co-founder, frontman and lead guitarist Garcia, who died in 1995, once said of Lesh's bass playing. The Grateful Dead disbanded in 1995 ...

The Grateful Dead will celebrate their 60th anniversary this year not only with a massive 60-disc live collection but also with a just-announced Best Of compilation. Fittingly titled Gratest Hits ...

Dead and Company – the Grateful Dead offshoot group featuring Bob Weir, Mickey Hart and John Mayer – last played San Francisco in 2023, when they closed their farewell tour with three shows at ...

But how did the Grateful Dead even come to be? How did five young men find each other in San Francisco and start a legacy? That story begins with each individual musician. It’s best to start ...

Deadheads from around the Bay Area and likely well beyond will descend on San Francisco this summer to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Grateful Dead. They’ll turn out to enjoy a three-day ...

The Grateful Dead, this city's iconic band with roots in the psychedelic era, has plans to return to one of its most legendary performance locales to celebrate 60 years since its 1965 founding.

Local officials want to honor the Grateful Dead’s 60th anniversary this year with a trio of Dead & Company concerts at the Polo Field. The proposal, which Mayor Daniel Lurie and The City’s ...

Grateful Dead founding member Bobby Weir is one of the last men standing in his legendary rock band. The thought of mortality has crossed Weir’s mind, as he’s seen many of his band members pass.

What a long strange trip the Grateful Dead has been on for six decades. In 2025, the Dead will celebrate their 60th anniversary, a huge milestone in a career marked with both triumph and tragedy ...