Reuters - Feb 11, 2007
Music greats such as Joan Baez, The Doors and The Grateful Dead won lifetime achievement awards on Saturday, although many of those honored did not live long enough to receive them. The National Academy...
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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 - Jun 3, 2006
Vince Welnick, who took over as the Grateful Dead s keyboard player in 1990 after a succession of predecessors met untimely deaths, has died at the age of 55, according to an announcement on his Web site...
More »Reuters - Mar 24, 2006
Warner Music Group is near finalization of a $67.5 million purchase of the Ryko Group, the New York-based parent of indie label Rykodisc, according to sources. Official announcement of the sale...
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 »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 10, 2005
Roots is a term that gets thrown around quite a bit in music, particularly for those bands digging into its most cavernous tradition. In the case of the North Mississippi Allstars, that concept just happens...
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 - Dec 12, 2004
Same Bonnaroo time, same Bonnaroo place. The fourth annual Bonnaroo Music Festival will be held June 10-12, 2005, returning to the 700-acre site in rural Manchester, Tenn., about 60 miles south of Nashville...
More »Reuters - Oct 5, 2004
The Roots, the Dead s Mickey Hart , the Coup, Michelle Shocked and Third Eye Blind are the first acts to sign on for the second We the Planet Music and Activism Festival. The event will take place...
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 - Mar 24, 2004
The Library of Congress has assembled the world s greatest array of American folk music, dance and stories by acquiring the collection of Alan Lomax, adding it to recordings made by his father, John...
More »Reuters - Jan 16, 2004
Rykodisc, recognized as one of the world s foremost independent labels, will celebrate its 20-year-anniversay with a double-album compilation CD due Feb. 3. Ryko issued the first music on CD by Jimi...
More »AP - Nov 20, 2003
For the last 25 years, all an aging Grateful Dead fan had to do to win the instant admiration of a Gen-X or Gen-Y counterpart was to utter these eight words: I was there the night they closed Winterland...
More »USRN - Jul 22, 1999
(7/21/99, 4 p.m. PDT) - With his longtime pet project of indigenous Balinese recordings finally reaching store shelves a few weeks ago, former Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart is now looking ahead to...
More »USRN - Apr 20, 1999
(4/20/99, 1 a.m. PDT) - Only days after they wrapped their own festival of sorts with the 3rd Annual Haitian Benefit Concert, Wyclef Jean & his Refugee Allstars are among the latest acts to be added to...
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