The eighth annual Love Rocks NYC benefit concert for God's Love We Deliver is thrilled to announce Dave Grohl will join the evening’s performance lineup and Martin Short will join for a special guest appearance.
Love Rocks NYC will now also be shown as a livestream event from the historic Beacon Theatre in NYC at 8:00pmET on Thursday, March 7. Fans in NYC and elsewhere can experience this memorable night of music by signing up at loverocksnyc.com to access a livestream link to the concert via Veeps.com.
Veeps All Access subscribers can tune in for free or fans can purchase an individual show ticket for $20 while also helping support the organization as $20 = 2 Meals for New Yorkers living with severe and chronic illness. Additional seats are also being released today and fans can purchase through www.ticketmaster.com.
Executive produced by iconic international fashion designer John Varvatos, NYC...
Love Rocks NYC will now also be shown as a livestream event from the historic Beacon Theatre in NYC at 8:00pmET on Thursday, March 7. Fans in NYC and elsewhere can experience this memorable night of music by signing up at loverocksnyc.com to access a livestream link to the concert via Veeps.com.
Veeps All Access subscribers can tune in for free or fans can purchase an individual show ticket for $20 while also helping support the organization as $20 = 2 Meals for New Yorkers living with severe and chronic illness. Additional seats are also being released today and fans can purchase through www.ticketmaster.com.
Executive produced by iconic international fashion designer John Varvatos, NYC...
- 3/5/2024
- Look to the Stars
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The Grateful Dead have inspired millions of fans around the world with their music, but one accessories brand is drawing inspiration from the band for self-care and recovery as well.
Amazon is selling a Grateful Dead-inspired sobriety chip from Ukodnus, a brand known for their collection of pop culture jewelry, charms and keychains. The sobriety coin retails for $10 and features a design combining Grateful Dead’s famous skull...
The Grateful Dead have inspired millions of fans around the world with their music, but one accessories brand is drawing inspiration from the band for self-care and recovery as well.
Amazon is selling a Grateful Dead-inspired sobriety chip from Ukodnus, a brand known for their collection of pop culture jewelry, charms and keychains. The sobriety coin retails for $10 and features a design combining Grateful Dead’s famous skull...
- 4/3/2023
- by RS Editors
- Rollingstone.com
Rolling Stone‘s interview series King for a Day features long-form conversations between senior writer Andy Greene and singers who had the difficult job of fronting major rock bands after the departure of an iconic vocalist. Some of them stayed in their bands for years, while others lasted just a few months. In the end, however, they all found out that replacement singers can themselves be replaced. This edition features former Furthur singer John Kadlecik.
In the years following Jerry Garcia’s death, the surviving members of the Grateful Dead...
In the years following Jerry Garcia’s death, the surviving members of the Grateful Dead...
- 10/19/2022
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
Philco — the one-off supergroup led by the Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh alongside Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy and Nils Cline, Margo Price, and more — made their debut Friday night at Chicago’s Sacred Rose Festival.
The concert, which coincided with Tweedy’s 54th birthday, saw the Wilco frontman take lead vocals on Dead classics like “Dire Wolf,” “U.S. Blues,” “Franklin’s Tower,” and “Ripple.”
According to Jambase, the Philco lineup was rounded out by Dead and Company keyboardist Jeff Chimenti, guitarists Stu Allen and Grahame Lesh, vocalist Elliott Peck,...
The concert, which coincided with Tweedy’s 54th birthday, saw the Wilco frontman take lead vocals on Dead classics like “Dire Wolf,” “U.S. Blues,” “Franklin’s Tower,” and “Ripple.”
According to Jambase, the Philco lineup was rounded out by Dead and Company keyboardist Jeff Chimenti, guitarists Stu Allen and Grahame Lesh, vocalist Elliott Peck,...
- 8/27/2022
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
To mark the three-year anniversary of Neal Casal’s death, the late singer-songwriter’s foundation has launched a fellowship to provide mental health and wellness resources to musicians and their families.
The Neal Casal Music Foundation — started in 2020 a year after Casal’s death — has teamed with fellow non-profit Backline to fund the Neal Casal Clinical Fellowship. Potential fellows can apply for the position here.
@backline_care & the Neal Casal Music Foundation are proud to announce The Neal Casal Fellowship for 2022-2023.
With the third anniversary of Neal's passing,...
The Neal Casal Music Foundation — started in 2020 a year after Casal’s death — has teamed with fellow non-profit Backline to fund the Neal Casal Clinical Fellowship. Potential fellows can apply for the position here.
@backline_care & the Neal Casal Music Foundation are proud to announce The Neal Casal Fellowship for 2022-2023.
With the third anniversary of Neal's passing,...
- 8/26/2022
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
Dead & Company kicked off their 2022 tour Friday evening with an epic show at L.A.’s Dodger Stadium that was heavy on Dead standards like “Casey Jones,” “China Doll,” “Jack Straw,” and “Scarlet Begonias.” Toward the end of the second set, they broke out a cover of Traffic’s “Dear Mr. Fantasy” that transitioned into an instrumental coda of the Beatles’ “Hey Jude.” Check out the fan-shot video above.
“Dear Mr. Fantasy” was a regular part of the Grateful Dead’s live repertoire from 1984 to 1990, but this was the first...
“Dear Mr. Fantasy” was a regular part of the Grateful Dead’s live repertoire from 1984 to 1990, but this was the first...
- 6/13/2022
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
Update: Sources close to Dead and Company initially claimed that 2022 will be the last year the band tours together. However, after guitarist Bob Weir tweeted his surprise about Dead and Company suspending touring, the same sources changed their tune and say discussions continue about the fate of the band. The band itself said in a statement: “Dead & Company has made no official decision as to this being their final tour.”
“Whew,” drummer Bill Kreutzmann tweeted to Weir. “I thought you knew something that I didn’t! “#themusicneverstops #wewillsurvive.”
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Dead and...
“Whew,” drummer Bill Kreutzmann tweeted to Weir. “I thought you knew something that I didn’t! “#themusicneverstops #wewillsurvive.”
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Dead and...
- 4/8/2022
- by Ethan Millman
- Rollingstone.com
Jonah Hill and Martin Scorsese are to team up for a biopic feature of the band Grateful Dead.
Jonah Hill is on board to play the group’s frontman, Jerry Garcia, while Scorsese will direct and produce the untitled biopic. Hill will also produce through his Strong Baby banner along with his producing partner Matt Dines.
Sources have said that the band and the group’s management will be participating in the film, Apple has rights to use the group’s musical catalogue for the film.
Also in news – Mel Gibson set to direct ‘Lethal Weapon 5’
‘The People vs. O.J. Simpson’ scribes Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski will be penning the screenplay. The band’s Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann will executive produce along with their late bandmate’s daughter Trixie Garcia, Eric Eisner and Bernie Cahill.
Whether the biopic will cover the whole of...
Jonah Hill is on board to play the group’s frontman, Jerry Garcia, while Scorsese will direct and produce the untitled biopic. Hill will also produce through his Strong Baby banner along with his producing partner Matt Dines.
Sources have said that the band and the group’s management will be participating in the film, Apple has rights to use the group’s musical catalogue for the film.
Also in news – Mel Gibson set to direct ‘Lethal Weapon 5’
‘The People vs. O.J. Simpson’ scribes Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski will be penning the screenplay. The band’s Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann will executive produce along with their late bandmate’s daughter Trixie Garcia, Eric Eisner and Bernie Cahill.
Whether the biopic will cover the whole of...
- 11/19/2021
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
As we wait—probably another year—for Killers of the Flower Moon, Martin Scorsese (79 yesterday!) has not let a long stay in the edit bay get him down. Per Variety, he’ll reunite with Jonah Hill for an as-yet-untitled Jerry Garcia biopic “expected to chronicle the band’s rise amid the ’60s psychedelic counterculture movement.” Scripted by the reliable Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, the project is moving forward with Apple and at the surviving members’ blessing: Bob Weir, Bill Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh, and Mickey Hart are executive producing.
Though it’s early days and this wouldn’t be the first time in my life a Scorsese biopic falls through—anybody remember his attempts at a 3D Sinatra?—the inclusion of deep-pocketed Apple and remaining Dead crew are for sure a sign of upward mobility. And it would not be the master’s first dip in this river: in 2017 he...
Though it’s early days and this wouldn’t be the first time in my life a Scorsese biopic falls through—anybody remember his attempts at a 3D Sinatra?—the inclusion of deep-pocketed Apple and remaining Dead crew are for sure a sign of upward mobility. And it would not be the master’s first dip in this river: in 2017 he...
- 11/18/2021
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
Martin Scorsese has found his next movie for Apple: A biographical drama about the iconic rock band the Grateful Dead in which Jonah Hill will star as frontman and counterculture icon Jerry Garcia. Deadline first reported the project. The movie will reunite Scorsese and Hill, who last teamed for the director’s “The Wolf of Wall Street.” Hill earned an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor thanks to the movie.
According to Deadline: “Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, who have received rave reviews for penning ‘American Crime Story: Impeachment,’ are writing the script with Rick Yorn of Lbi Entertainment joining Hill and Scorsese as producers. Bernie Cahill, Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Trixie Garcia and Eric Eisner will exec produce. Insiders add that with the band and the groups management participating in the film, Apple has rights to use the groups musical catalogue for the film.
According to Deadline: “Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, who have received rave reviews for penning ‘American Crime Story: Impeachment,’ are writing the script with Rick Yorn of Lbi Entertainment joining Hill and Scorsese as producers. Bernie Cahill, Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Trixie Garcia and Eric Eisner will exec produce. Insiders add that with the band and the groups management participating in the film, Apple has rights to use the groups musical catalogue for the film.
- 11/18/2021
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Martin Scorsese is making a musical biopic about the Grateful Dead, with Jonah Hill set to star as the iconic rock band’s frontman Jerry Garcia.
The project reunites Scorsese and Hill, who worked together on “The Wolf of Wall Street.” In addition to directing, Scorsese will serve as a producer alongside Hill.
The still-untitled film is expected to chronicle the band’s formation in the Bay Area as the ’60s psychedelic counterculture movement started to take off. Known for popularizing the jam-band musical style, the Grateful Dead — whose devoted fans call themselves Deadheads — has remained one of the most influential music groups. Along with Garcia, founding members include Bob Weir, Ron McKernan, Phil Lesh and Bill Kreutzmann. Though Garcia died 25 years ago of a heart attack, some surviving members have continued to go on tour.
The movie is being developed at Apple, where Scorsese is currently working on his...
The project reunites Scorsese and Hill, who worked together on “The Wolf of Wall Street.” In addition to directing, Scorsese will serve as a producer alongside Hill.
The still-untitled film is expected to chronicle the band’s formation in the Bay Area as the ’60s psychedelic counterculture movement started to take off. Known for popularizing the jam-band musical style, the Grateful Dead — whose devoted fans call themselves Deadheads — has remained one of the most influential music groups. Along with Garcia, founding members include Bob Weir, Ron McKernan, Phil Lesh and Bill Kreutzmann. Though Garcia died 25 years ago of a heart attack, some surviving members have continued to go on tour.
The movie is being developed at Apple, where Scorsese is currently working on his...
- 11/18/2021
- by Rebecca Rubin
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: After stepping up as a producer on his next film Killers of the Flower Moon, Apple has found its next Martin Scorsese project, and its subject is a band the Oscar winner knows well. Sources tell Deadline that Scorsese is on board to direct and produce a new untitled biopic on the Grateful Dead with Jonah Hill on board to play the group’s frontman, Jerry Garcia.
Hill will also produce the pic through his Strong Baby banner along with his producing partner Matt Dines.
Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, who received rave reviews for penning American Crime Story: The People vs. O.J. Simpson, are writing the script with Rick Yorn of Lbi Entertainment joining Hill and Scorsese as producers. The Dead’s Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann will executive produce along with their late bandmate’s daughter Trixie Garcia, Eric Eisner and Bernie Cahill.
Hill will also produce the pic through his Strong Baby banner along with his producing partner Matt Dines.
Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, who received rave reviews for penning American Crime Story: The People vs. O.J. Simpson, are writing the script with Rick Yorn of Lbi Entertainment joining Hill and Scorsese as producers. The Dead’s Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann will executive produce along with their late bandmate’s daughter Trixie Garcia, Eric Eisner and Bernie Cahill.
- 11/18/2021
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
A 50th anniversary edition of David Crosby’s 1971 solo debut If I Could Only Remember My Name is being released on October 15th. It features a remastered version of the original LP and a bonus disc packed with previously-released demos, outtakes, and alternate takes from the album sessions. There will also be a 180-gram vinyl edition. Check out the previously-unheard track “Riff 1” right here.
If I Could Only Remember My Name was recorded throughout 1970 and early 1971 as Crosby was dealing with the shocking death of girlfriend Christine Hinton, and the overwhelming success of Csn/Csny.
If I Could Only Remember My Name was recorded throughout 1970 and early 1971 as Crosby was dealing with the shocking death of girlfriend Christine Hinton, and the overwhelming success of Csn/Csny.
- 9/2/2021
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
Bob Weir, Steve Earle, Billy Strings and Marcus King are among those paying tribute to guitarist Neal Casal on an upcoming box set. Highway Butterfly: The Songs of Neal Casal, due November 12th, features a diverse lineup of musicians covering 41 songs by the late guitarist. Casal, who played with everyone from Willie Nelson and Shooter Jennings to Ryan Adams and Phil Lesh, took his own life in 2019.
A version of Casal’s “You Don’t See My Crying” performed by Beachwood Sparks and Gospelbeach premiered with Wednesday’s announcement.
The box set,...
A version of Casal’s “You Don’t See My Crying” performed by Beachwood Sparks and Gospelbeach premiered with Wednesday’s announcement.
The box set,...
- 7/21/2021
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
Elvis Costello will be hitting the road again with his Imposters band this fall, marking his first tour since the Covid-19 pandemic.
The tour kicks off in Memphis, Tennessee, on October 13th at The Soundstage at Graceland, making stops at towns and cities across the United States — including a set at JazzFest in New Orleans — and concluding on November 14th in Oakland, California. See tickets at VividSeats.com.
Costello released his latest album Hey Clockface last year, and later released a Francophone remix EP, La Face de Pendule à Coucou,...
The tour kicks off in Memphis, Tennessee, on October 13th at The Soundstage at Graceland, making stops at towns and cities across the United States — including a set at JazzFest in New Orleans — and concluding on November 14th in Oakland, California. See tickets at VividSeats.com.
Costello released his latest album Hey Clockface last year, and later released a Francophone remix EP, La Face de Pendule à Coucou,...
- 7/20/2021
- by Claire Shaffer
- Rollingstone.com
Way back when, Dylan and the Beatles demonstrated how musicians could evolve dramatically, overhauling their sound on record once or even twice a year. They were hardly alone, but few others shape-shifted during than era like Tim Buckley. By 1968, the L.A.-via-Orange-Country troubadour was moving beyond the keening-balladeer mode of his early work — a mere two years before — and gravitating toward jazz and improvisational music. That exhilarating shift, a key period in his career, is documented in this newly unearthed live tape, recorded that year at the Carousel Ballroom...
- 6/11/2021
- by David Browne
- Rollingstone.com
Today is April 20, also known as the unofficial weed holiday, 420. The roots of this day come from the 70s, when a group of high schoolers would use the code “420” to communicate when they would meet to smoke weed. One of the students worked with Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh as a roadie, […]
The post Celebrities Take To Social Media To Celebrate 4/20 appeared first on uInterview.
The post Celebrities Take To Social Media To Celebrate 4/20 appeared first on uInterview.
- 4/20/2021
- by Sarah Huffman
- Uinterview
In Mexico, native healers known as the curanderos used cannabis, or pipiltzintzintli, in their practice to treat a variety of conditions. The shamans believed there was a correlation between medicinal plants and divine spirits, a notion that didn’t sit well with the Spanish church. “Towards the end of the 17th Century, the Catholic Church caught wind of this and banned cannabis, spreading rumors that people who used it were in communion with the devil and would go crazy,” says Steve DeAngelo, one of the world’s leading cannabis activists...
- 4/19/2021
- by Zoe Wilder
- Rollingstone.com
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For some superfans, collecting every LP and EP isn’t enough. Exclusive music merchandise such as an iconic album’s first pressing, signed records, bobbleheads, and original concert tees from every single tour are just a few ways for nostalgic diehards to go the extra mile and own a piece of their favorite artists (without stepping into stalker territory). These days, you no longer need to scour flea...
For some superfans, collecting every LP and EP isn’t enough. Exclusive music merchandise such as an iconic album’s first pressing, signed records, bobbleheads, and original concert tees from every single tour are just a few ways for nostalgic diehards to go the extra mile and own a piece of their favorite artists (without stepping into stalker territory). These days, you no longer need to scour flea...
- 4/6/2021
- by Danielle Directo-Meston
- Rollingstone.com
Elvis Costello, Sting and Billy Joel are among the stars lending their support to a campaign to save the fabled New York City jazz venue Birdland. The effort includes a virtual concert — which Costello will partake in — airing January 24th at 7 p.m. Et.
Like so many venues across the country, Birdland was hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic, which forced it to shut its doors. Despite the passage of the Save Our Stages Act in last year’s Covid-19 relief bill, which will provide targeted aid to the live entertainment industry,...
Like so many venues across the country, Birdland was hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic, which forced it to shut its doors. Despite the passage of the Save Our Stages Act in last year’s Covid-19 relief bill, which will provide targeted aid to the live entertainment industry,...
- 1/22/2021
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Dating back at least to 1977, when Aretha Franklin, Paul Simon, and Linda Ronstadt performed during Jimmy Carter’s first day on the job — and all the way up to Lady Gaga and Jennifer Lopez at Joe Biden’s swearing-in ceremony — it hasn’t been unusual for rock and pop stars to play presidential inaugurations. Still, there was nothing quite like the sight, 12 years ago tonight, of the Grateful Dead jamming for Barack Obama.
The Dead (then using the shortened name for themselves) hadn’t been randomly invited to perform at...
The Dead (then using the shortened name for themselves) hadn’t been randomly invited to perform at...
- 1/20/2021
- by David Browne
- Rollingstone.com
Fifty years ago this Sunday, the Rolling Stones released Gimme Shelter, the infamous documentary that started as a look at the final days of the British bad boys’ legendary 1969 tour, leading up to the disastrous free concert at Altamont Speedway. It ended up becoming the ultimate rock & roll horror movie. Directors Albert Maysles, David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin’s time capsule is always a trip to revisit, but especially now — after nine months without live music, even Altamont looks tantalizing. It’s tough to watch the film in 2020 without musing,...
- 12/4/2020
- by Rob Sheffield
- Rollingstone.com
To anyone who’s studied Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead, their connection to jazz was unmistakable: From their own onstage improvising to collaborations with Branford Marsalis and Ornette Coleman, the Dead clearly saw jazz musicians as simpatico. But how far back did those bonds go? An upcoming, previously unreleased live set — GarciaLive Vol. 15: Jerry Garcia & Merl Saunders, May 21st, 1971 — provides a few more clues.
Even in the early days of the Grateful Dead, Garcia somehow found the time to engage in a plethora of side projects, one of...
Even in the early days of the Grateful Dead, Garcia somehow found the time to engage in a plethora of side projects, one of...
- 10/21/2020
- by David Browne
- Rollingstone.com
The Lockn’ Festival announced Saturday that its October 2020 event — like every other major music festival during the Covid-19 pandemic — is canceled.
In July, the Arrington, Virginia-based fest announced a series of health measures — including mask requirements, stages that allowed for audience social distancing, cashless transactions and temperature checks — with the hope of continuing as planned during the weekend of October 2nd, 2020. The festival also had lined up performers Phil Lesh, Brandi Carlile, David Crosby and more.
However, with the pandemic nowhere near contained, organizers revealed Sunday that this year’s...
In July, the Arrington, Virginia-based fest announced a series of health measures — including mask requirements, stages that allowed for audience social distancing, cashless transactions and temperature checks — with the hope of continuing as planned during the weekend of October 2nd, 2020. The festival also had lined up performers Phil Lesh, Brandi Carlile, David Crosby and more.
However, with the pandemic nowhere near contained, organizers revealed Sunday that this year’s...
- 8/30/2020
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
Choosing and justifying a list of essential Grateful Dead shows — 20, 200, or even 2,000 — is treacherous work. Passionate challenge from fans, especially hardcore Deadheads and veteran tape traders, is guaranteed. Endless debate over set-list minutiae is inevitable. In fact, there is only one definitive list of the Dead’s greatest concerts — and it includes every show they played, in every lineup, from their pizza-parlor-gig days as the Warlocks in 1965 until guitarist Jerry Garcia‘s death in 1995.
That long, strange trip was a continually unfolding tale of highs and trials, dedicated evolution and surrender to the moment,...
That long, strange trip was a continually unfolding tale of highs and trials, dedicated evolution and surrender to the moment,...
- 8/8/2020
- by David Fricke
- Rollingstone.com
Guitarist Neal Casal was known for his thoughtful, patient playing style with groups like Chris Robinson Brotherhood, Ryan Adams’ Cardinals, and his own Circles Around the Sun. When he died in 2019, he left behind a meticulously organized creative archive. In addition to his work in bands and as a session musician, the New Jersey native released 12 solo albums and curated a collection of more than 25,000 photos.
Both artistic outlets figure prominently into the newly created Neal Casal Music Foundation, a 501c3 nonprofit that aims to put musical instruments, with lessons on how to play them,...
Both artistic outlets figure prominently into the newly created Neal Casal Music Foundation, a 501c3 nonprofit that aims to put musical instruments, with lessons on how to play them,...
- 6/18/2020
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
This is the 12th installment of Rolling Stone’s Music in Crisis series, which looks at how people all across the music industry are coping with the coronavirus pandemic. This edition features Peter Shapiro — renowned concert promoter and owner of Brooklyn Bowl, the Capitol Theatre, and Relix Magazine — who’s doing his best to envision the future of live music.
In the 25 years since he took over New York’s Nineties jam-band haven Wetlands, Peter Shapiro has become known for pulling off impossible stunts. The concert promoter once approached Robert Plant...
In the 25 years since he took over New York’s Nineties jam-band haven Wetlands, Peter Shapiro has become known for pulling off impossible stunts. The concert promoter once approached Robert Plant...
- 5/21/2020
- by Patrick Doyle
- Rollingstone.com
In 1971, somewhere around harvest time in California, a group of San Rafael High School students known as “the Waldos,” because they liked to congregate outside class against a wall, inherited a map. It allegedly led to a crop of abandoned cannabis plants near the Point Reyes Peninsula Coast Guard station, just up the coast from San Francisco. The friends planned to meet after school at 4:20 p.m. to see if the map was real. For weeks, the Waldos gathered at 4:20 and hopped in a ’66 Chevy Impala, smoking joints the whole way out.
- 4/20/2020
- by Zoe Wilder
- Rollingstone.com
David Crosby had a busy 2020 lined up, with three separate tours, major shows with Phil Lesh, Joe Walsh, and Jason Isbell, and a lot of new music to make. At the moment, Crosby has no idea if any of that is going to happen. “I don’t want to be sitting at home, man,” Crosby says on the phone from his Santa Ynez, California, home. “I’m 78. I only got a few years left. You know that. I don’t want to spend them sitting on my butt. I got...
- 4/17/2020
- by Patrick Doyle
- Rollingstone.com
Grateful Dead isn’t just a band. It is a social phenomenon. But as a band, it had one major superpower, the greatest Pa system in the world. It is only fitting Z2 Comics would want to include them in their roster of music-affiliated graphic novels. Their upcoming Grateful Dead Origins chronicles the history of jamband culture.
“Jerry Garcia was an avid comic book enthusiast so it is incredibly fitting to have the Grateful Dead’s origin story told in graphic novel form,” Rhino Entertainment President Mark Pinkus, said in a statement. “Z2’s passion for the band’s music and mythology make them the perfect partner to bring the story to life. It has been inspiring to watch the novel’s artwork evolve over the last year and I’m excited that Dead Heads now get to have a preview.”
The Grateful Dead and Z2 Comics will first make...
“Jerry Garcia was an avid comic book enthusiast so it is incredibly fitting to have the Grateful Dead’s origin story told in graphic novel form,” Rhino Entertainment President Mark Pinkus, said in a statement. “Z2’s passion for the band’s music and mythology make them the perfect partner to bring the story to life. It has been inspiring to watch the novel’s artwork evolve over the last year and I’m excited that Dead Heads now get to have a preview.”
The Grateful Dead and Z2 Comics will first make...
- 4/7/2020
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
In 2009, Anders Osborne found himself at rock bottom. He was bankrupt, his house was in foreclosure, his wife had kicked him out, and he couldn’t see his two young kids. His livelihood was playing gigs, but he couldn’t even do that — he’d often show up too drunk or high to perform. “For close to a year, I’d [either] try to find a friend’s couch to sleep on [or] I lived in the park,” says Osborne, a New Orleans-based singer-songwriter who’s collaborated with everyone from Phil Lesh to Tim McGraw.
- 1/21/2020
- by Nicole Frehsee
- Rollingstone.com
David Crosby and Graham Nash are both hitting the road in 2020 — just not together.
Starting on March 4th at the Strand Theatre in York, Pennsylvania, Graham Nash will be touring in support of his 2018 release Over the Years… The set will also include Crosby, Stills & Nash songs along with Nash’s Hollies tunes. The tour will conclude April 1st in St. Louis. Tickets are on sale now.
Meanwhile, Crosby and his Sky Trails Band have announced a late spring/early summer 2020 tour, kicking off May 14th in Santa Barbara. JamBase...
Starting on March 4th at the Strand Theatre in York, Pennsylvania, Graham Nash will be touring in support of his 2018 release Over the Years… The set will also include Crosby, Stills & Nash songs along with Nash’s Hollies tunes. The tour will conclude April 1st in St. Louis. Tickets are on sale now.
Meanwhile, Crosby and his Sky Trails Band have announced a late spring/early summer 2020 tour, kicking off May 14th in Santa Barbara. JamBase...
- 11/20/2019
- by Claire Shaffer
- Rollingstone.com
The Grateful Dead’s craziest video — a 1987 clip for In the Dark track “Hell in a Bucket” — begins in a smoky bar. Bikers greet each other, embracing and clinging to their cold beers while flaunting their bicep tattoos. A woman shoves a dude playing an F-14 Tomcat pinball machine in the corner, knocking him to the ground.
Is that a flannelled Jerry Garcia? What’s he doing here? He isolates himself from the rowdy drinkers, strumming his beloved Tiger in his shades until the camera shifts and introduces us to a dazzling Bob Weir.
Is that a flannelled Jerry Garcia? What’s he doing here? He isolates himself from the rowdy drinkers, strumming his beloved Tiger in his shades until the camera shifts and introduces us to a dazzling Bob Weir.
- 11/6/2019
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
In 1961, a young Jerry Garcia met another struggling artist: writer and musician Robert Hunter. For more than 30 years until Garcia’s death in 1995, the two were friends and songwriting partners; with Garcia supplying the music and Hunter the lyrics, out came most of the Grateful Dead’s most enduring songs: “Dark Star,” “Uncle John’s Band,” “Truckin’,” “Touch of Grey,” “Ripple,” “China Cat Sunflower” and so many more. Hunter also wrote with bandmates Bob Weir (“Sugar Magnolia,” “Playing in the Band”) and Phil Lesh (“Box of Rain”). Hunter died of...
- 10/9/2019
- by David Browne
- Rollingstone.com
A new Grateful Dead LP collects previously unreleased live songs from the early to mid-Nineties that envisioned a potential track list for an unrecorded final studio album.
Band archivist David Lemieux curated the nine-song Ready or Not, which arrives November 22nd on CD, limited-edition double-lp and digital formats. Dead.net will offer an exclusive colored vinyl edition of the 2-lp (with one red and one blue disc), limited to 2,000 copies.
Ready or Not features late-period Grateful Dead songs debuted onstage in 1992 and 1993 by their final lineup: singer-guitarist Jerry Garcia, drummer Mickey Hart,...
Band archivist David Lemieux curated the nine-song Ready or Not, which arrives November 22nd on CD, limited-edition double-lp and digital formats. Dead.net will offer an exclusive colored vinyl edition of the 2-lp (with one red and one blue disc), limited to 2,000 copies.
Ready or Not features late-period Grateful Dead songs debuted onstage in 1992 and 1993 by their final lineup: singer-guitarist Jerry Garcia, drummer Mickey Hart,...
- 10/8/2019
- by Ryan Reed
- Rollingstone.com
Neal Casal performed a blistering guitar solo with his band Circles Around the Sun at Virginia’s Lockn’ Festival last weekend. It was one of the roots guitarist’s final performances before his untimely death at the age of 50, which was announced on his Facebook page Tuesday morning.
The solo in the clip above clocks in at just over four minutes, with Casal settling into a swampy, jam band funk and mesmerizing the crowd with his six-string skills as a disco ball spins and the crowd sways back and forth.
The solo in the clip above clocks in at just over four minutes, with Casal settling into a swampy, jam band funk and mesmerizing the crowd with his six-string skills as a disco ball spins and the crowd sways back and forth.
- 8/27/2019
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
Neal Casal, the influential roots guitarist who played with Willie Nelson, Shooter Jennings, Ryan Adams, Phil Lesh and more, has died at the age of 50. “Neal was a gentle, introspective, deeply soulful human being who lived his life through artistry and kindness,” read the announcement of his death on his Facebook page Tuesday morning.
“I can’t believe I’m having to say goodbye to my friend and my brother. It’s almost too painful,” longtime collaborator Chris Robinson said in a statement. “When I think about the songs we’ve written,...
“I can’t believe I’m having to say goodbye to my friend and my brother. It’s almost too painful,” longtime collaborator Chris Robinson said in a statement. “When I think about the songs we’ve written,...
- 8/27/2019
- by Jonathan Bernstein
- Rollingstone.com
The highlights were many at this weekend’s annual Peach Music Festival at Montage Mountain in Scranton, Pennsylvania. The jam, rock, country, and bluegrass summit featured sets by Marcus King Band, Phil Lesh and Friends, Billy Strings, and Maggie Rose that embodied the spirit of community that distinguishes the Peach. On Sunday afternoon, Warren Haynes and Grace Potter reinforced that sense of musical camaraderie with a collaborative set rich in covers.
With Potter on organ and Haynes on guitar, the duo opened with Fleetwood Mac’s “Gold Dust Woman” and touched on songs by Crosby,...
With Potter on organ and Haynes on guitar, the duo opened with Fleetwood Mac’s “Gold Dust Woman” and touched on songs by Crosby,...
- 7/29/2019
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
The Grateful Dead ceased to exist the minute Jerry Garcia died on August 9th, 1995, but they still had an enormous audience and the remaining members spent the next two decades trying to find ways to keep the music alive on the road. They called themselves everything from the Other Ones to the Dead to Furthur as members of the original band came and went, but the one constant challenge was finding a frontman. Jimmy Herring, Warren Haynes, John Kadlecik, and Trey Anastasio all gave it a shot, but they were all temporary fill-ins.
- 7/9/2019
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
Willie Nelson & Family welcomed the Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh to the stage on Sunday night to sing a set-closing medley of early country-gospel standards “Will the Circle Be Unbroken” and “I’ll Fly Away.” The performance took place at the Xfinity Theatre in Hartford, Connecticut, as part of the multi-artist Outlaw Music Festival Tour, which also included Lesh’s Friends project and Alison Krauss on the bill.
Fittingly on Father’s Day, the guest-heavy finale also featured Nelson’s son Lukas on guitar, as well as Lesh’s son and bandmate Grahame,...
Fittingly on Father’s Day, the guest-heavy finale also featured Nelson’s son Lukas on guitar, as well as Lesh’s son and bandmate Grahame,...
- 6/18/2019
- by Jedd Ferris
- Rollingstone.com
Gov’t Mule will offer select fans a preview of their new live album and concert film, Bring on the Music, at a special meet and greet ahead of their set at Mountain Jam in Bethel, New York this weekend.
The event will be held at the Museum at Bethel Woods — which is on the festival grounds — June 14th between 5:15 and 6:15 p.m. Gov’t Mule will have advanced copies of Bring On the Music, while band members Warren Haynes, Matt Abts, Danny Louis and Jorgen Carlsson will also be on hand.
The event will be held at the Museum at Bethel Woods — which is on the festival grounds — June 14th between 5:15 and 6:15 p.m. Gov’t Mule will have advanced copies of Bring On the Music, while band members Warren Haynes, Matt Abts, Danny Louis and Jorgen Carlsson will also be on hand.
- 6/13/2019
- by Rolling Stone
- Rollingstone.com
Freaks and Geeks told a lot of stories across its 18-episode run, but the central plot line was always Lindsay Weir struggling to find a place to fit in. At the start of the show, Lindsay (played by Linda Cardellini) had left the geeks for the freaks, abandoning the mathletes and Uno nights with her former best friend Millie to go see the Who and host a keg party. But being a burnout wasn’t really her thing, and by the finale she was still trying to find herself in 1981 suburbia.
- 6/3/2019
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
One night not long ago, Willie Nelson wrote some lyrics about mortality and sent them off to his producer-collaborator, Buddy Cannon. “Time, as you pass me by, why did you leave these lines on my face?” Nelson wrote in the new song “Come on Time.” “You sure have put me in my place.”
“Willie wrote part of it one night and emailed it to me and I woke up, had a cup of coffee and wrote the other half for breakfast,” Cannon said later. “It’s a song about realizing...
“Willie wrote part of it one night and emailed it to me and I woke up, had a cup of coffee and wrote the other half for breakfast,” Cannon said later. “It’s a song about realizing...
- 6/3/2019
- by Patrick Doyle
- Rollingstone.com
“Let me play some of it for you,” said Willie Nelson on a recent afternoon at his Texas home. The singer was talking about his new album, Ride Me Back Home, which he announced today, just three days shy of his 86th birthday. The move proves that Nelson is as prolific as ever; just six months ago, he released his Grammy-winning Frank Sinatra tribute album My Way.
The new album’s title track, “Ride Me Back Home,” is out today, while the full album is coming June 21st. The song,...
The new album’s title track, “Ride Me Back Home,” is out today, while the full album is coming June 21st. The song,...
- 4/26/2019
- by Patrick Doyle
- Rollingstone.com
In June, the Chris Robinson Brotherhood will release their sixth studio LP, Servants of the Sun, on the singer’s own label, Silver Arrow Records. On Wednesday, the band previewed the LP by unveiling a new video for the track “Chauffeur’s Daughter.”
In the song, a loping, gently psychedelic roots-rock tune that spotlights the former Black Crowes frontman’s signature vintage-r&B–influenced vocals, Robinson sings of a companion who’s a source of constant comfort: “When the road gets rocky, she’s my easy ride.”
Directed by renowned rock photographer Jay Blakesberg,...
In the song, a loping, gently psychedelic roots-rock tune that spotlights the former Black Crowes frontman’s signature vintage-r&B–influenced vocals, Robinson sings of a companion who’s a source of constant comfort: “When the road gets rocky, she’s my easy ride.”
Directed by renowned rock photographer Jay Blakesberg,...
- 4/24/2019
- by Hank Shteamer
- Rollingstone.com
Willie Nelson’s health-and-wellness brand Willie’s Remedy is expanding its product lineup with new additions as well as increased availability in retail outlets. Joining the company’s hemp-infused coffee, which was introduced in February, will be a new double strength hemp-infused coffee as well as Willie’s Remedy Hemp Oil Tincture.
The coffees, sourced from farms in Colombia and infused with organic hemp oil, deliver doses of Cbd. The regular strength version contains approximately 7 mg of Cbd per 8-ounce cup, and the double strength coffee carries 15 mg in a comparable serving.
The coffees, sourced from farms in Colombia and infused with organic hemp oil, deliver doses of Cbd. The regular strength version contains approximately 7 mg of Cbd per 8-ounce cup, and the double strength coffee carries 15 mg in a comparable serving.
- 4/23/2019
- by Jon Freeman
- Rollingstone.com
Z2 Comics has announced it is teaming up with the Grateful Dead to release a new graphic novel chronicling the band’s early days, Grateful Dead Origins, which will come with an accompanying selection of Dead music, including previously unreleased early-era material that will ship with a deluxe edition of the comic.
Z2—which has previously partnered on projects with The Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach, Japan’s BabyMetal, DJ Paul Oakenfold and more—writes in a press release that Grateful Dead Origins will feature an original story, written by Chris Miskiewicz and illustrated by Noah Van Sciver, that presents “an in-depth and personal look at the formation of one of the most important American rock bands of all time, exploring the early days of Jerry Garcia, Phil Lesh, Bob Weir, Pigpen, Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart…the story of the band’s transformation from a bar band performing as the...
Z2—which has previously partnered on projects with The Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach, Japan’s BabyMetal, DJ Paul Oakenfold and more—writes in a press release that Grateful Dead Origins will feature an original story, written by Chris Miskiewicz and illustrated by Noah Van Sciver, that presents “an in-depth and personal look at the formation of one of the most important American rock bands of all time, exploring the early days of Jerry Garcia, Phil Lesh, Bob Weir, Pigpen, Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart…the story of the band’s transformation from a bar band performing as the...
- 4/18/2019
- by Glenn Hauman
- Comicmix.com
The Grateful Dead will include a set of unreleased music taken from a handful of 1969 shows on the upcoming 50th anniversary reissue of Aoxomoxoa, out June 7th.
The set will feature two versions of Aoxomoxoa: A newly remastered version of the original 1969 LP and a remastered version of the band-produced mix the Dead released in 1971. The reissue’s bonus disc will boast live music recorded January 24th to 26th, 1969 at the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco, California (the recordings were among the first live performances recorded to 16-track tape).
“In 1969, for their third album,...
The set will feature two versions of Aoxomoxoa: A newly remastered version of the original 1969 LP and a remastered version of the band-produced mix the Dead released in 1971. The reissue’s bonus disc will boast live music recorded January 24th to 26th, 1969 at the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco, California (the recordings were among the first live performances recorded to 16-track tape).
“In 1969, for their third album,...
- 3/28/2019
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
The Outlaw Music Festival Tour will return for a summer 2019 leg in June, pulling together an eclectic assortment of performers from country, rock and Americana. Led as usual by Willie Nelson, this year’s lineup will also include Phil Lesh & Friends, the Avett Brothers and Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats.
With dates stretching through July 3rd, the 2019 Outlaw Music Festival Tour will also include performances (on select dates) from Alison Krauss, the Revivalists, Counting Crows, Old Crow Medicine Show, Dawes, Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real, Steve Earle & the Dukes,...
With dates stretching through July 3rd, the 2019 Outlaw Music Festival Tour will also include performances (on select dates) from Alison Krauss, the Revivalists, Counting Crows, Old Crow Medicine Show, Dawes, Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real, Steve Earle & the Dukes,...
- 3/5/2019
- by Jon Freeman
- Rollingstone.com
Luther Dickinson and Sisters of the Strawberry Moon offer an inspirational message in the new video for “Like a Songbird That Has Fallen,” the first single from the group’s debut album Solstice, which will be released on March 22nd via New West Records.
A new project, Sisters of the Strawberry Moon finds Dickinson – a renowned guitarist best known as the co-founder of the North Mississippi Allstars — collaborating with an impressive women-only cast of Americana and folk artists, including Amy Helm, Amy Lavere, Sharde Thomas and the Como Mamas.
In...
A new project, Sisters of the Strawberry Moon finds Dickinson – a renowned guitarist best known as the co-founder of the North Mississippi Allstars — collaborating with an impressive women-only cast of Americana and folk artists, including Amy Helm, Amy Lavere, Sharde Thomas and the Como Mamas.
In...
- 2/13/2019
- by Jedd Ferris
- Rollingstone.com
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