Events/Featured: Top of Home Page/Music/Reviews Circles Around the Sun Take Orbit at Terrapin Crossroads By Greg M. Schwartz / 14 August 2017 It’s only the first song of the night, but the band is soon in “the zone” as they go on to deliver a sensational 30-minute opening jam.
Events/Featured: Top of Home Page/Music/Reviews DeadPhish Orchestra Soars Over the Hills and Far Away in the Bay By Greg M. Schwartz / 20 March 2017 There’s only band that actively seeks to mix Phish and the Grateful Dead together like Reese's Pieces and that’s the DeadPhish Orchestra.
Featured: Top of Home Page/Features/Interviews/Music Choose Your Companions: Bill Vitt on Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders By PopMatters Staff / 18 January 2017 "We never rehearsed. That probably helped." Longtime Jerry Garcia drummer Vitt looks back on how it all started and what it meant.
Featured: Top of Home Page/Music/Podcasts/Sound Affects Brace Yourself: An Interview With Allen Thompson By Sloane Spencer / 28 December 2016 Two members of Allen Thompson's band broke their backs last year. Brace yourself for their new sound.
Featured: Top of Home Page/Music/Reviews Bob Weir: Blue Mountain By Chris Ingalls / 30 September 2016 A Grateful Dead founding member collaborates beautifully with Josh Ritter and the National on his first album of all original material in 30 years.
Featured: Top of Home Page/Music/Reviews Grateful Dead: Red Rocks 7/8/78 By PopMatters Staff / 15 July 2016 Jerry Garcia and Co. were capable of unbelievable highs and unfathomable lows. The lows take center stage on a lackluster set from Summer '78.
Featured: Top of Home Page/Music/Reviews Various Artists: Day of the Dead By Chris Ingalls / 13 July 2016 Aaron and Bryce Dessner have masterfully assembled a dizzying array of contemporary artists to reinterpret the songs of the Grateful Dead.
Featured: Top of Home Page/Music/Reviews Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders: Garcia Live Volume Six: July 5, 1973 By PopMatters Staff / 30 June 2016 Their partnership lasted about four years and 250 shows but a new archival record suggests that it was some of the best music either Merl Saunders or Jerry Garcia made at the time. And just who is that mystery trumpeter?
Events/Featured: Top of Home Page/Music/Reviews Moe. Concocts Explosive Recreational Chemistry in Hollywood By Greg M. Schwartz / 17 May 2016 Some mainstream music fans don’t have the patience for such improv, but for the moe.rons, the psychedelic jamming is what it’s all about.
Books/Featured: Top of Home Page/Features/Music The Grateful Dead Are Dead, Long Live the Grateful Dead By PopMatters Staff / 30 June 2015 The Grateful Dead didn’t seem to give a damn about the American dream and yet seems to have lived it—well, parts of it, anyway.
Events/Featured: Top of Home Page/Reviews Mickey Hart Band: 9 September 2013 – San Diego, CA By Greg M. Schwartz / 3 October 2013
Featured: Top of Home Page/Film/Music/PopMatters Picks/Reviews The Dead in Fine Form: ‘Grateful Dead View from the Vault Vol. III and IV’ By PopMatters Staff / 17 July 2013