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

All About Jazz — This weekend, benefit shows at the Legendary Golden Bear will celebrate the long-defunct Huntington Beach music club, which once hosted Bob Dylan and the Byrds, among others. For three decades, the club was Orange County's answer to such L.A.-area... more info

All About Jazz — Wolfgang's Vault today announced its plans for an unprecedented online event on November 3: "Cracking the Vault Day, " the largest-ever simultaneous release of live concerts for download. "Cracking The Vault Day" means that on this single occasion, h... more info