411 Mania — A classic Grateful Dead set in honor of Jerry's 70th birthday! more info

Starpulse — Happy Birthday to: Grateful Dead guitarist/singer Jerry Garcia (1942; d. 1995) Actress Valery Ortiz (1984) O-Town singer Ashley Parker Angel (1981) Actor Jason Momoa (1979) Musician Dhani Har... more info

Aquarium Drunkard — Rhino Records (who I consult for) asked me to contribute to their upcoming series of posts/playlists centered around what would be Garcia’s 70th birthday, August, 1st. My piece goes live later this week and centers on what, if forced to choose, wou... more info

Topix — What a treasure Dick's Picks Vol. 30 is for Deadheads everywhere. The four CDs catch the Grateful Dead live, which was always the best way to experience them, at the Academy of Music in New York on 3/25/72 for the first CD, and then performing anothe... more info

Topix — The Grateful Dead's Dick's Picks series, named after Dead archivist Dick Latvala ran from 1993-2005, and consisted of 36 multi-disc CD sets. They were taken from a two-track recording device that had been plugged into the main sound board and left ru... more info

Guardian Music — He was once the singer for California's toughest, angriest punk band, Black Flag. Now he's back to his old tricks with his hardcore supergroupTwo men, a decade apart in age, are remembering their early encounters in the Los Angeles punk scene of the ... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — The Grateful Dead Movie collects high points from three 1974 concerts by the band in a concert film directed by Jerry Garcia. For more live music by the band check out Dick's Picks Vol. 30 Academy of Music, New... more info

Mercury News, California — Grateful Dead songs will again be played at San Francisco's legendary Fillmore, which basically means that all will be right in the cosmos -- or, at least, at 1805 Geary Blvd. more info

Topix — To promote his new album "Do Things," Mississippi wunderkind and multi-instrumentalist Dent May takes on the Dead's disco era classic, "Shakedown Street." The music of the Grateful Dead does not discriminate. more info

Gorilla vs. Bear — Dent May drops a faithfully funky, spot on rendition of the Grateful Dead’s Shakedown Street,... Read more » more info