Tag Archives: Grateful Dead

The Rolling Stones deliver a 1998 concert on CD and Blu-ray. Plus, expanded versions of early albums from the Grateful Dead and Procol Harum.

If 'Blue Mountain' represents a new, more prolific era for this music legend, Weir fans of all stripes have a lot to look forward to. Even if he takes another 16 years to complete another album, listeners can take comfort in the rich tones of this mature work. Now more than ever, the world needs the comforting, self-assured songs of Bob Weir.

On the surface, you might think that limiting the songs of a band that thrived on the interplay between various parts – most importantly the lead and rhythm guitars of Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir – wouldn't work, but you’d be mistaken. There is power and subtlety in these reinterpretations that I think Garcia would have admired, as his own personal tastes seemed to range to the more subdued and authentic soul of acoustic performances.

'Art Chantry Speaks: A Heretic's History of 20th Century Graphic Design' is a graphic designer's archaeological “dig” through the left-over detritus of the 20th century.

Chris Robinson Brotherhood serves up a second helping of 'Betty's Blends,' and it's delicious.

The Dead played their first documented concert at Magoo's Pizza Parlor on May 5, 1965.

Stanley's memoir chronicles her life working in the Acid King's lab, and as the third angle in a love triangle, and later under the care of the Grateful Dead.

This release is a great opportunity to see what all the fuss was about and for fans to revisit the live concert experience.

Another chapter in The Grateful Dead's musical journey is reissued as a three CD set.

This is an interesting, high quality live Grateful Dead compilation, recently reissued on 180-gram vinyl.