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 ...

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

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 ...

This summer, when the bass drops clean and delay-free at Lollapalooza or some other sweaty festival field, spare a thought for the Grateful Dead. You have them to thank, whether you have a skull and ...

The sonic integrity of a Grateful Dead concert has long been a pull for frequency seekers. During the onset of the psychedelic ‘70s, the band’s fathom audio engineer, Owsley Stanley, recruited John ...

Get ready for Dead & Company’s 60th anniversary concerts at Golden Gate Park. East Bay couple, John and Helen Meyer, have been helping the band perfect their sound for decades. They've worked with ...

In the spring of 1997, Deadheads tuning in to The Grateful Dead Hour, the nationally syndicated radio show, heard a rare if disconcerting treat. Over two installments, host and Dead historian David ...

Brian Anderson’s ‘Loud and Clear’ captures the strenuous work, psychedelic vision and lasting influence of the band’s most audacious sound-system experiment. By Noah Eckstein When journalist Brian ...