All About Jazz — GRATEFUL DEAD TO BE HONORED OCTOBER 19 IN NEW YORK CITY WITH SPECIAL LIGHTING OF EMPIRE STATE BUILDING IN TIE-DYE COLORS BOB WEIR AND PHIL LESH IN MANHATTAN FOR NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY FUNDRAISER OCTOBER 21 The Grateful Dead The Grateful Dead ... more info

Live Daily — The Grateful Dead will be honored in New York City tonight (10/19) when the Empire State Building is lit up in tie-dye colors to celebrate the appearance of Bob Weir and Phil Lesh at a cocktail reception to benefit an upcoming exhibition at the New Y... more info

Music News Net — MUSIC NEWS - The GRATEFUL DEAD is being honored in New York City today when the Empire State Building will be lit up with special tie-dye colors to celebrate the unveiling of a new exhibit at the NY Historical Sociey.... more info

Rolling Stone — The L.A. Times dropped a reference to the Flaming Lips re-recording Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon into a story last week, and Pitchfork has more details from the band’s MySpace show Q&A. The likely iTunes-only release was recorded with Stard... more info

Starpulse — Happy Birthday to: Grateful Dead / Ratdog founder Bob Weir (1947)[...] Read more! more info

Spinner.com — Levon Helm isn't a guy to ignore the advice from trained medical professionals. Fans at Austin City Limits realized that about half way through the famed drummer's set, when guitarist Larry Campbell clued them in. "You may notice that Levon isn't doi... more info

Pop Tarts Suck Toasted — 20. Peter Bjorn & John - "Young Folks"; Who knew whistling could be this catchy? Maybe if Andrew Bird would have simplified things he would have wound up on this list! Either way there is no denying how great this song was the first time you heard it... more info

Rolling Stone — Photo: Michael Ochs Archive/Getty Wolfgang’s Vault, the digital warehouse of concert bootlegs, recently announced plans to upload roughly 165 previously unreleased Grateful Dead concerts to their site by early November. The fun starts now, as the V... more info

Live Daily — Longtime Grateful Dead bandmates Bob Weir and Phil Lesh will take their latest non-Dead project, Furthur [ tickets ], out on the road for a few new dates in December. The band, which made its inaugural live appearances during a three-night run in ... more info

Star Online, Malaysia — John Dawson, who died in July, was one of the country-rock pioneers who founded New Riders of the Purple Sage, a splinter group of the Grateful Dead. more info