ContactMusic — Grateful Dead star Bob Weir thrilled fans at the Outside Lands festival in San Francisco California on Saturday 11Aug12 when he joined Norah Jones onstage for a rendition of his classic bands hit It Must Have Been The Roses... more info

Guardian Music — Leader of the Grateful Dead passes away of natural causes in a drug and alcohol rehabilitation centreJerry Garcia, leader of The Grateful Dead, the ultimate San Francisco hippie band, was found dead yesterday in a drug and alcohol rehabilitation cent... more info

Mercury News, California — As testament to Jerry Garcia's undying influence on the music and culture of rock n roll, generations of Deadheads, musicians and family members came together last Friday night for a worldwide webcast celebrated what would have been the 70th birthday... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Inside The Cap Forty years ago, in its heyday, the Capitol Theater here was known as a rock stage with great acoustics, a crumbling space where the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, Santana and Pink Floyd played memorable concerts. So when... more info

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