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Honoree Bob Weir of Grateful Dead accepts the 2025 MusiCares Persons of the Year award onstage during the 2025 MusiCares Persons of the Year Honouring the Grateful Dead on January 31, 2025 in Los Angeles, California.
Grateful Dead founding guitarist and singer Bob Weir dead at 78

By Stef Lach Published

Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead has died from underlying lung issues months after cancer battle

Bands & Artists
Leon Bridges, Susan Tedeschi, Maggie Rogers, Dave Matthews and Derek Trucks at the Kennedy Center Honors
Watch Derek Trucks, Susan Tedeschi and Dave Matthews pay musical tribute to the Grateful Dead

By Fraser Lewry Published

The Grateful Dead and Bonnie Raitt were among the Class of 2024 at this year's Kennedy Center Honors

Bands & Artists
Dead & Company onstage at Sphere
Dead & Company announce 10th anniversary shows at Sphere in Las Vegas

By Fraser Lewry Published

Grateful Dead spin-off Dead & Company will be the first band to play a second residency at the revolutionary Las Vegas venue

Concerts & Shows
Jerry Garcia smoking a cigarette
Jerry Garcia's voice can now read you bedtime stories and recipes in 32 languages

By Fraser Lewry Published

AI company ElevenLabs have worked with the Jerry Garcia estate to recreate the Grateful Dead founder's voice

Bands & Artists
Grateful Dead - American Beauty cover art
The Grateful Dead accidentally invent the alt.country movement on American Beauty

By Classic Rock Magazine Published

Having discovered they could harmonise, Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead released what many consider to be their most user-friendly album

Albums
Phil Lesh of The Grateful Dead backstage at a show in 1977
Grateful Dead bassist and co-founder Phil Lesh dies at 84

By Classic Rock Published

Phil Lesh, the bassist with The Grateful Dead, The Other Ones, The Dead and Phil Lesh And Friends has died

Biographies
Dead & Company onstage at The Sphere in Las Vegas
Dead & Company add six more dates to residency at The Sphere in Las Vegas

By Fraser Lewry Published

The remains of the Grateful Dead have now confirmed 30 trips to Sin City

Concerts & Shows
Grateful Dead photographed outside a motel
"We'll embark on a sonic journey through the band's diverse and ever-evolving music": Stanford University is offering a course studying the music and culture of the Grateful Dead

By Fraser Lewry Published

The course is taught by musician and author David Gans, host of the Grateful Dead Hour radio show

Bands & Artists
A model wearing a Grateful Dead-branded Forest Green Rovers t-shirt and hoodie
"It's a perfect match. Forest Green Rovers is a team that really follows Grateful Dead values": The world's greenest, most vegan-friendly football club have launched a range of Deadhead merch

By Fraser Lewry Published

In unexpected partnership news, The Grateful Dead have launched a range of merchandise with English fourth-tier football club Forest Green Rovers

Bands & Artists
Band shot of the Grateful Dead
The Grateful Dead albums you should definitely own

By Max Bell Published

Buying guide The Grateful Dead's best albums are a kaleidoscopic, loose-limbed, ever-adventurous alchemy of psychedelia, country, folk and blues

Buying guide
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