Robert Hunter successfully turned a delightful acid trip into a song with “Dark Star”. This is one of Grateful Dead’s deepest songs, and it manages to blend together what an acid experience is like ...

LOS ANGELES – By day he was a mild-mannered, buttoned-down reference librarian. By night – and on weekends and during vacations – David Dodd would shed his jacket and tie for tie-dye and morph into a ...

Robert Hunter was a non-performing member of the Grateful Dead, at least as important as anyone else to the group’s musical legacy. A master lyricist, Hunter wrote the words to virtually every Jerry ...

Tom Hamilton has joined SiriusXM’s Grateful Dead family. The guitarist, known for his roles in Joe Russo’s Almost Dead, American Babies, Ghost Light, and ...

After teasing a new video release over the last few days, the Grateful Dead have shared a new animated music video for their classic, Robert Hunter-penned song “Ripple.” “The Grateful Dead’s “Ripple” ...

The Deadhead fandom lives on, if not in an intergenerational obsession with the iconic rock band than in ongoing collaborations and products that celebrate their legacy. The best Grateful Dead merch ...

“What a long, strange trip it’s been.” That’s one of the most recognizable Grateful Dead lyrics, but it also perfectly encapsulates the life of Eric West and the way he and his friends created their ...

Delaware-based Dogfish Head Brewery joins with the Grateful Dead to release a new pale ale that marks their joint anniversaries. The Grateful Dead sing about wine, whiskey, red grenadine and other ...

Don’t fall into the trap of believing that The Grateful Dead were only worth hearing when they played live. We’ll grant you that their live excursions, where they’d take songs off into wild realms ...

Writer and historian Dennis McNally is the Grateful Dead's former publicist and the author of several books, including A Long Strange Trip: The Inside Story of the Grateful Dead, the still-definitive ...

The Dead Again band specializes in jams inspired by Grateful Dead songs. What: David Gans and the Broken Angels, with David Dodd and Dead Again When: 8:30 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 18 Where: Mystic Theatre, ...