Music
A weeklong Sotheby’s auction of Grateful Dead artifacts includes everything from musical instruments to t-shirts to a MacGyvered nitrous oxide kit.
Oct. 7, 2021
Pop & Hiss
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Jan. 19, 2011
Books
No group has ever been as mythologized, idolized and memorialized as the Dead. This new book is an ode to the tapers who were there to capture it all.
Oct. 31, 2022
A new lineup. A new label. A new studio: Following the death of Ron ‘Pigpen’ McKernan, Jerry Garcia and the Dead reinvented themselves on ‘Wake of the Flood.’
Oct. 3, 2023
At 74, the Grateful Dead’s Weir remains a musical adventurer, from his trio Wolf Bros to collaborating with orchestras to reimagining the Dead’s legacy.
Feb. 10, 2022
Bruce Hornsby has spent a lot of time since his last album in 1990 on outside projects--from playing keyboards for a year and a half with the Grateful Dead to appearing on records by Bonnie Raitt and Stevie Nicks, among others.
May 9, 1993
The only time the Grateful Dead are mentioned in Calendar is when another musician mentions them, such as Lone Justice member Ryan Hedgecock did (“When You Wish Upon a Star,” by Robert Hilburn, April 7).
April 14, 1985
Movies
According to the old bumper stickers, “There is nothing like a Grateful Dead concert.”
July 6, 2015
This weekend’s Skull and Roses Festival in Ventura is, on one level, a parallel dimension reversal of the typical pop music festival.
April 6, 2018
West Coast Grateful Dead fans, your miracle ticket may well be on its way.
April 10, 2015