When journalist Brian Anderson acquired a crumbling speaker monitor from the Grateful Dead’s legendary 1974 Wall of Sound via a Sotheby’s auction, it wasn’t just memorabilia he was after. The former ...

The live experience of the Grateful Dead was essential to everything the legendary band did and to its legions of fans, known as “Deadheads.” In the 1970s, the band developed a massive, advanced ...

As we continue to reflect on the 60 years since the formation of the Grateful Dead, we present this feature which originally ...

The music of the Grateful Dead is featured in an upcoming movie from pro skier and artist Chris Benchetler.Mountains of the ...

Director Chris Benchetler has announced 'Mountains of the Moon', a new action-art film set to the music of the Grateful Dead.

As the Grateful Dead morphed from an eccentric folk-blues group into an eclectic jam juggernaut, the band adopted an idiosyncratic approach to improvisation they would then hone over three decades.

In this epic account, Bancroft Prize–winning historian Beckert (Empire of Cotton) charts the rise of the modern global economic order. Capitalism’s emergence represents “a Continue reading » Every ...

Chris Benchetler, the art-world’s favorite pro skier and the ski-world’s favorite Deadhead, is back with Mountains of the Moon. His new film, which he ...

From elite athlete, filmmaker, artist, and pledged deadhead Chris Benchetler comes a new theatrical experience inspired by ...

In our latest Grateful Dead Retrospective, we look back on the four shows the band played at Richmond Coliseum between 1983 and 1985.

The longest, strangest trip embarked upon by a rock ’n’ roll band ended 30 years ago this week at Soldier Field. On Sunday, July 9, 1995, the Grateful Dead played what would be its final concert with ...

The days of the Dead are coming – Dead & Company, that is. The band, led by Grateful Dead members Bob Weir and Mickey Hart, along with John Mayer, will perform three shows at Golden Gate Park in San ...