Yahoo! Music - Nov 5, 2007
HeadCount--a nonpartisan voter registration group that works with Dave Matthews, the Allman Brothers Band, and members of Phish and the Grateful Dead--announced that it has hired a former Time Warner...
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Be it on land or sea, if there s one thing Sammy Hagar loves more than shooting tequila and playing rock n roll, it s throwing an unforgettable party for his most dedicated fans. Indeed, after nearly...
More »E! Online - Dec 20, 2006
The quintessential jam band. Opera s most renowned diva. An L.A. quartet whose flame still burns bright 35 years after the death of their frontman. The first lady of folk rock. The...
More »Reuters - Mar 25, 2006
Country-music innovator Buck Owens, who sold more than 16 million albums and popularized country entertainment on television as host of Hee Haw, died on Saturday at age 76. Owens died of heart failure...
More »E! Online - Dec 1, 2005
There s been a huge shakeup on Shakedown Street. A week after some of the surviving members of the Grateful Dead ordered a nonprofit site to remove free downloads of the seminal jam band s concerts...
More »AP - Sep 30, 2005
Bob Weir, a guitar player and singer for the Grateful Dead, will make his first appearance at MerleFest 2006, the annual celebration of Americana music begun by bluegrass legend Doc Watson. Weir will...
More »Reuters - Aug 26, 2005
Former Phish guitarist Trey Anastasio has signed with Columbia Records, having spent his entire career on Elektra. Anastasio s label debut, Shine, will be released November 1 as a DualDisc. The 12-track...
More »AP - Jun 23, 2005
THURSDAY, 5:45 p.m.: The empty expanse of cow pasture that was once Manchester is morphing into Tennessee s third largest city. Meanwhile, somewhere near Centeroo, the first major drum circle has been...
More »AP - May 6, 2005
In 1999, a group of concert promoters claimed to have reinvented Woodstock, resulting in another example of how attempts to replicate the past tend to produce something grotesque in the present. Woodstock...
More »Reuters - Apr 28, 2005
The Grateful Dead experienced a lot of darkness for a band that helped spark the peace-and-love psychedelic era and became one of biggest rock acts in history. Four members, including charismatic lead...
More »E! Online - Apr 13, 2005
To paraphrase the old Chuck Berry tune, bye-bye, Johnnie. Johnnie Johnson, the rhythm-and-blues piano wizard whose pioneering partnership with Berry produced such indelible tracks as Roll over Beethoven...
More »AP - Jan 13, 2005
Spencer Dryden, the drummer for legendary rock band the Jefferson Airplane, has died of cancer. He was 66. Dryden, who died at his home Tuesday, retired from performing 10 years ago, although he hadn...
More »Reuters - Oct 6, 2004
Bob Weir , singer/guitarist of the Dead, has canceled a fall tour by his side-project band Ratdog because of exhaustion. The Ratdog run was scheduled to kick off Thursday (Oct. 7) in Ridgefield, Conn...
More »Reuters - Jun 16, 2004
The Grateful Dead were pioneers in releasing recordings from the band s vast archive of concert tapes, but the vault of side projects by founding guitarist Jerry Garcia is only now opening widely....
More »Reuters - May 30, 2004
Woodstock, Monterey Pop, Altamont and Isle of Wight are famous music festivals of the late 60s/early 70s that have been immortalized on film. But new documentary Festival Express may rank among fans...
More »AP - Apr 29, 2004
It s been more than 40 years since a fateful New Year s Eve encounter connected Bob Weir with Jerry Garcia and started a rock band, the Grateful Dead, that would become the eternal poster child for...
More »USRN - Feb 16, 1999
(2/16/99, 1 p.m. PST) - In one of the strangest pairings in recent history, teen pop trio Hanson made a special guest appearance at Bob Weir s show Saturday night at the Wetlands in New York. The situation...
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