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

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