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

Reuters — BOSTON (Reuters) - Author Dennis McNally accompanied the Grateful Dead as a publicist and historian on the band's “long strange trip,” and he chronicled Jack Kerouac, the Beat Generation author of “On the Road.” more info

Mercury News, California — 'So Many Road: The World in the Grateful Dead' opens Nov. 5 at SJSU. more info

Time — The documentary is set to be released next year, coinciding with the 50th anniversary of band's founding more info

Stereogum — The Grateful Dead turn 50 next year and to celebrate the occasion, they’ll release a career-spanning documentary directed by Amir Bar-Lev, who also had a hand in 2010′s The Tillman Story and 2007′s My Kid Could Paint That. Most notably, the fil... more info

Aquarium Drunkard — With 2013’s Time Off, guitarist Steve Gunn took a leap that often proves disastrous for guitar soli performers: he started singing. His albums had featured vocals before, but Time Off was different. On it, Gunn embraced proper songcraft, echoing th... more info

Mercury News, California — Also, longtime Grateful Dead publicist Dennis McNally releases new book, 'On Highway 61.' more info

Mercury News, California — Dennis McNally, the Grateful Dead's former publicist, will read from 'On Highway 61' Oct. 7 at Diesel bookstore in Oakland. more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — Last weekend The Times published a profile of the sound artist John Oswald, who has just released an LP version of "Grayfolded." The recording, which is a nearly two-hour sound collage of dozens of live versions of the Grateful Dead's "Dark Star," wa... more info