A concert honoring the Grateful Dead guitarist showed the durability of the band’s music and culture, even as its members dwindle. A concert honoring the Grateful Dead guitarist showed the durability ...

Like any classic rock band, the Grateful Dead had no shortage of well-loved songs making up their decades-long discography, including such fabled hits as "Truckin'", "Ripple", "Touch of Grey" and so ...

Over the weekend, Grateful Dead fans the world over mourned the loss of an icon: Bob Weir, guitarist and founding member, had died at 78, leaving listeners and collaborators caught off-guard. Since ...

According to legend, back in 1968, Jerry Garcia and Phil Lesh fired Bob Weir and Pigpen from their positions in the Grateful Dead. Or maybe it was that Garcia and Lesh tried to fire Weir and Pig… or ...

Dead & Company took the stage on August 3, 2025, at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. The group had already performed two shows celebrating the legacy of the Grateful Dead and its 60th anniversary.

This story was featured in The Must Read, a newsletter in which our editors recommend one can’t-miss story every weekday. Sign up here to get it in your inbox. The instrumental theme of “Playing in ...

In the summer of 1968, three years into the Grateful Dead’s existence, the band fired singer and rhythm guitarist Bob Weir. Jerry Garcia, the band’s other guitarist and its reluctant leader, and ...

The guitarist, singer and songwriter, who died at 78, cut his own path among his elders in the Grateful Dead, and beyond. By David Browne As the youngest member of the original Grateful Dead, Bob Weir ...

Bob Weir was the everyman at the heart of the Grateful Dead, the one who kept the band’s feet on the ground through their farthest-reaching explorations. In the first 30 years of the band’s existence, ...

Eagle Rock—For some first-time visitors, the primary draw of Kavat Coffee will be that Serj Tankian, lead singer of the hard rock band System of a Down, founded and owns the establishment. But if that ...