Brooklyn Vegan — photo: Lee Ranaldo w/ Sonic Youth in 2011 (more by Dana (distortion) Yavin) Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo has a few live appearances coming up this year. He's got a Grateful Dead tribute in Chicago with Alex Bleeker, members of Yo... more info

Stereogum — It will never technically be the Grateful Dead without Jerry Garcia, but the surviving members of the band announced a trio of farewell shows to celebrate their 50th birthday. Phish frontman Trey Anastasio will be Garcia’s stand-in, and even if you... more info

Stereogum — Grateful Dead fans with cash to burn will be stoked on the news that they can now purchase an 80-disc box set of the band’s work for $699.98. The box set includes live recordings from 30 of the band’s shows, hence the title Grateful Dead: 30 Trip... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — The Huffington Post shared a list of great road books by women. Bob Weir discussed the Grateful Dead reunion with Rolling Stone. NPR Music is streaming a 100 hour playlist of soulful protest music. Adam Thirlwell shared a reading list... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Bob Weir, Mickey Hart, Jimmy Cliff & friends (via Dave Lipsitz) We're about a month and a half away from the four surviving Grateful Dead members' five 50th anniversary shows (two in California, three in Chicago), ahead of that all... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — As you've probably heard, surviving members of the Grateful Dead are playing 50th anniversary shows in Chicago and California this year. Those are all of course sold out, but there are still other ways to watch. There's the pay-per-view... more info

Time — The union of Grateful Dead and Phish’s Trey Anastasio is rooted in a half century of defiance and acceptance more info

TMZ — Bob Weir might have sipped the electric kool-aid back in the day, but the Grateful Dead guitarist threw some serious frozen shade when asked about Ben & Jerry's ice cream. The legendary jammer was in NYC when he ran… more info

Stereogum — Netflix appears to be diving completely into the music-documentary pool. We’ve already seen the trailer for the forthcoming Nina Simone doc What Happened, Miss Simone?, and now the service has also put together a doc on the Grateful Dead rhythm gui... more info

Time — Some of the band's best shows can easily be heard online more info