Reuters - Apr 27, 2009
The Grateful Dead have a long and illustrious history at New York's Madison Square Garden, and its surviving members more than lived up to it Saturday night. Now performing as the Dead, with original...
More »AP - Apr 17, 2009
He s still got a little work to do on the economy, but already President Barack Obama has accomplished at least one task that had appeared all but impossible just a year ago: He s put The Dead back on...
More »Reuters - Mar 27, 2009
As the Dead prepare for their first tour since 2004, they're determined that an auction of prime seats will raise money for charities as well as put those tickets in the hands of fans, not scalpers...
More »AP - Mar 24, 2009
It was time, says The Dead s Bob Weir, to give charitable causes a boost while directing a kick to the hindquarters of ticket scalpers. So he and his bandmates announced Tuesday they have held back some...
More »Reuters - Mar 16, 2009
The Dead, Bob Dylan, the String Cheese Incident, Willie Nelson & Family, and the Black Crowes are among the top acts set for the second annual Rothbury, a weekend-long music festival in Michigan. The...
More »AP - Mar 16, 2009
Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson and surviving members of the Grateful Dead are scheduled to perform at the Rothbury music festival in Michigan. Organizers of the second annual festival, set for July 2-5 at...
More »E! Online - Jan 2, 2009
The Dead have turned the page on their differences. Mickey Hart, Phil Lesh, Bob Weir and Bill Kreutzmann—original members of pioneering jam band the Grateful Dead—have announced they'...
More »AP - Jan 2, 2009
It looks like the old Dead are gettin on. Surviving members of the Grateful Dead say they ll regroup for a 19-city tour, their first since 2004, beginning April 12 in Greensboro, N.C. The group, which...
More »AP - Oct 14, 2008
Tie-dyed T-shirts and political slogans made for a heady mixture as the four surviving members of the rock band Grateful Dead put on a concert in support of Barack Obama. Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann...
More »E! Online - Oct 2, 2008
First Barack Obama raised the Dead. Now he's healing the sick. Despite a TMZ report that Grateful Dead guitarist Bob Weir was suffering from recently broken ribs, as well as a killer...
More »E! Online - Sep 18, 2008
Barack Obama has a lot to be Grateful for. Surviving Grateful Dead members Phil Lesh, Mickey Hart, Bob Weir and Bill Kreutzmann have signed on to headline a fundraiser for the Democratic presidential...
More »Reuters - Jul 2, 2008
Barack Obama's presidential run might pay dividends for Deadheads this year. Three of the Grateful Dead's surviving members -- Bob Weir, Phil Lesh and Mickey Hart -- reunited for a February...
More »E! Online - Apr 24, 2008
Jerry Garcia can rest assured knowing that this is a match made in heaven. The late Grateful Dead rocker's former bandmates, Bob Weir and Mickey Hart, announced Thursday they will be donating the...
More »AP - Apr 24, 2008
Dancing bears, meet the Banana Slugs. The surviving members of the Grateful Dead are turning over the rock band s archives to the University of California at Santa Cruz. The archive will hold the band...
More »Reuters - Feb 5, 2008
As primary and caucus voters go to the polls in 24 states on Super Tuesday (February 5), a wave of artists as disparate as the Grateful Dead, Will.I.Am, OK Go and members of Pearl Jam are rallying support...
More »Reuters - Feb 4, 2008
Saying Barack Obama embodies political hope absent since Robert Kennedy was slain 40 years ago, three surviving members of the Grateful Dead rock band reunited on Monday for the first time in four years...
More »Reuters - Nov 12, 2007
Supported by dozens of musical acts, including the Dave Matthews Band, Santana and Maroon 5, the nonpartisan group HeadCount plans to register up to 200,000 new voters via street teams deployed at more...
More »AP - Nov 7, 2007
Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart says he and other members of the band never really understood the forces that turned them into a 30-year cultural phenomenon. It was an alchemical thing, Hart said...
More »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...
More »AP - Oct 19, 2007
This steamy city at the mouth of the Amazon river is a haven for pirates the digital kind who copy CDs and DVDs by the thousands for illegal sidewalk sales. Belem is also home to one of Brazil...
More »E! Online - Aug 29, 2007
We always knew the Grateful Dead were a spacey bunch. Gathering the good vibes of Deadheads everywhere, Sirius Satellite Radio is launching a new station devoted to the legendary jam pioneers and their...
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