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Book Talk: Black music, white culture and a legendary U.S. highway

3725 days ago
ReutersBOSTON (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

Grateful Dead academic conference set for San Jose State University

3726 days ago
Mercury News, California'So Many Road: The World in the Grateful Dead' opens Nov. 5 at SJSU. more info

Martin Scorsese Signs On as Executive Producer of Grateful Dead Documentary

3731 days ago
TimeThe documentary is set to be released next year, coinciding with the 50th anniversary of band's founding more info

The Grateful Dead Announce 50th Anniversary Documentary Prod. By Martin Scorsese

3731 days ago
StereogumThe 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

Catching Up With Steve Gunn :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

3749 days ago
Aquarium DrunkardWith 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

Berkeley Hawaiian Music Festival set for Freight & Salvage

3755 days ago
Mercury News, CaliforniaAlso, longtime Grateful Dead publicist Dennis McNally releases new book, 'On Highway 61.' more info

Today's Music Picks: Grateful Dead biographer now explores 'Highway 61'

3757 days ago
Mercury News, CaliforniaDennis McNally, the Grateful Dead's former publicist, will read from 'On Highway 61' Oct. 7 at Diesel bookstore in Oakland. more info

John Oswald on Plunderphonics, "Grayfolded" and audio collage

3775 days ago
L.A. Times - EntertainmentLast 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

Revisiting the transitive nightfall of John Oswald's 'Grayfolded'

3778 days ago
L.A. Times - EntertainmentIn 1994, John Oswald turned live recordings of the Grateful Dead's 'Dark Star' into an epic sonic collage. 20 hears later, he reworked the early mash-up into an even more-expansive three-LP edition.In 1994, John Oswald turned live recordings of the G... more info

Further (pre-Beachwood Sparks) get best-of compilation (stream it); The Tyde touring with Christopher Owens (dates)

3787 days ago
Brooklyn Veganby Bill Pearis Before they formed Beachwood Sparks and The Tyde, Brent and Darren Rademaker spent a good chunk of the '90s making noise with their band Further. (Not to be confused with Grateful Dead offshoot Furthur.) Having survived life... more info

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