LargeHeartedBoy — Catfish and the Bottlemen's The Balcony is the only new album I can recommend in a lean music release week. The Grateful Dead's Dick's Picks Vol. 13 - Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, NY 5/6/81 is a solid archival release. What... more info

Mercury News, California — MONTEREY - Rock Scully, a longtime Monterey Peninsula resident best known as the manager of the iconic band, The Grateful Dead, died Tuesday at Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula after a long battle with lung cancer. more info

Reuters — LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Rock Scully, the first manager of psychedelic rock band the Grateful Dead, who helped guide the group from the 1960s to 1980s, has died in northern California. He was 73. more info

Time — Scully managed the seminal psychedelic rock band for 20 years and wrote a tell-all biography more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Sinkane, aka multi-talented Brooklynite Ahmed Gallab, was a busy man this year. He helmed the multi-city William Onyeabor Atomic Bomb tribute concerts, released his fifth album, the underrated Mean Love, and kept an active solo touring schedule. He's... more info

Mercury News, California — Ice-T, Hollies, Afghan Whigs, Joni Mitchell, Ry Cooder collections from Rhino should also prove popular this holiday season. more info

Brooklyn Vegan — As discussed, Animal Collective are on a DJ tour which hits NYC tonight (11/14) at Brooklyn Bowl with Avey Tare, Geologist and Deakin in tow. It also returns to that same venue on December 12 without Avey Tare. Tickets... more info

Mercury News, California — Also, Grateful Dead conference taking place at San Jose State University. more info

Mercury News, California — Owsley Stanley, the Grateful Dead's first sound man and an underground chemist who specialized in LSD, purchased the truck in 1966, the same year the Black Panthers were formed and Ronald Reagan was elected governor of California. more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Andrew Sacher Chris Forsyth and the Solar Motel Band put out their new 5-song LP, Intensity Ghost, this week via No Quarter records. Pulling equally from The Grateful Dead's jams and Television's guitar workouts on Marquee Moon, Chris and... more info