Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Grateful Dead

‘Biggest band that ever lived’: inside the Grateful Dead art show

As the band celebrate their 60th anniversary, a California exhibition draws attention to the unique psychedelic artwork that has long told their story

The Guardian - US · Dec 4, 2025

The Deadhead who became a $38 billion CEO: What HubSpot cofounder Brian Halligan learned from Jerry Garcia and passed on to his MIT students

The Dead’s business model offers a better guide for founders than half the frameworks taught in business school, according to the venture capitalist.

Fortune · Nov 25, 2025

Review: Charting Jerry Garcia's Enormous Cultural Impact

Here Beside the Rising Tide tells the story of the Grateful Dead and the 1960s counterculture.

Reason · Nov 21, 2025

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

“It’s so hard when you come in to bands like Grateful Dead and the Allman Brothers where the fans actually care who the bass player is”: How Oteil Burbridge set about replacing Phil Lesh to become Dead & Company’s new singing bass hero

Burbridge played with The Allman Brothers and Tedeschi Trucks Band before joining Dead & Company alongside guitarist John Mayer

Guitar World · Nov 7, 2025

Donna Jean Godchaux supplied steel and soul to the Grateful Dead in their prime

Godchaux sang on classics by Elvis and Otis Redding and had a long solo career, but it’s as a member of the Dead’s classic, acid-drenched 70s lineup – and as the band’s only female member – that she will be remembered

The Guardian - UK · Nov 4, 2025

Grateful Dead singer Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay dead at 78

Former Grateful Dead singer Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay - who also performed backing vocals for Elvis Presley - has died at the age of 78.

BANG Premier · Nov 3, 2025

Grateful Dead's Donna Jean Godchaux Dies in Nashville After Cancer Battle

Donna Jean Godchaux, the only woman to perform full-time with the Grateful Dead, has died at 78 after a long battle with cancer. Her career spanned Muscle Shoals soul sessions to psychedelic rock stages.

International Business Times UK · Nov 3, 2025

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

“The next morning, I got an email that had a receipt for a 1957 Gibson Custom goldtop”: Jam band and Southern rock prodigy Bella Rayne was bereft when her Les Paul was stolen – then came an answer to her prayers

Rayne explains how she turned to guitar during the pandemic but found her mojo onstage – and why her fate seams intertwined with the Grateful Dead

Guitar World · Oct 7, 2025

Bryan cranston encouraged to try magic mushrooms by Seth Rogen

Bryan Cranston has detailed trying magic mushrooms for the first time while seeing Dead + Company with Seth Rogen and their co-stars in The Studio.

BANG Premier · Sep 12, 2025

“I said, ‘I can’t accept this. I haven’t earned it.’ He was like, ‘You need to go pick it up’”: How a 17-year-old guitar prodigy ended up with a 1957 Goldtop Reissue from the foundation of a band she once hated – after her Number One Les Paul got stolen

After Bella Rayne had her Number One Les Paul stolen, she was dead grateful that she had got over her dislike of the Grateful Dead

Guitar World · Sep 6, 2025

Mud, mayhem and four-hour Grateful Dead sets: The chaotic story of Weeley and Bickershaw, the early 70s festivals that time forgot

Not every festival could be Woodstock or the Isle Of Wight

Louder · Aug 16, 2025

I've Seen The Grateful Dead Movie Dozens Of Times, So Here Are 3 Reasons I Can't Wait To See The Upcoming IMAX Version

The cult classic from a cult classic is coming back for a limited time!

Cinemablend · Aug 14, 2025

John Mayer hails Dead and Company shows 'the honour of his life'

John Mayer has hailed playing with Dead and Company the "honour of [his] life" as he reflected on the 60th anniversary of the Greatful Dead.

BANG Premier · Aug 6, 2025

Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia has childhood street named for him in San Francisco

Several hundred fans turned out to name a tiny street in San Francisco after celebrated Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia

The Independent UK · Aug 1, 2025

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Guitar World · Aug 1, 2025

“Thought the DIY pedal trend had run its course? Think again”: All the new guitar gear that has caught my eye this week – including a reverb pedal inspired by an abandoned nuclear reactor

A rival for Positive Grid, Walrus Audio's wild take on the looper pedal, an affordable build-it-yourself fuzz pedal and more...

Guitar World · Jul 30, 2025

D’Angelico celebrates Grateful Dead’s 60th anniversary with 3 special-edition guitars – which revive the Lightning Bolt design

Two electrics and an orchestra acoustic from D’Angelico bring back a special-edition Grateful Dead finish that pays homage to the pair’s first collaborative model

The Independent UK · Jul 30, 2025

The Grateful Dead toasts its 60th with concerts at San Francisco's Golden Gate Park

Tens of thousands of Deadheads are pouring into San Francisco for three days of Dead & Company concerts in honor of the Grateful Dead's 60th anniversary

The Guardian - US · Jul 24, 2025

Wear flowers in your hair … and take the bus: San Francisco fetes Grateful Dead concerts with tie-dye

Transit will transport concertgoers at a three-day concert series celebrating 60th anniversary of the band’s formation

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Guitar World · Jun 13, 2025

“He needed nobody; Jerry was his only customer”: Tom Lieber apprenticed to Jerry Garcia's guitar builder Doug Irwin in the ’70s – now he’s raising the ’Dead once again

This is the story of Tom Lieber, the aspiring guitar builder who wouldn’t take no for ananswer and ended up learning how to make some of the rock world’s most prized instruments

Guitar World · Jun 11, 2025

“The catalog proclaimed the instrument to be: ‘For the young artist with a flair for showmanship!’”: Guild Starfires appeared in the hands of The Kinks’ Dave Davies and Jerry Garcia, and shook up the electric guitar scene in the early '60s

By the late '50s, rock ’n’ roll was in full swing – and so for Guild, a ‘jazz guitar’ maker, it was time to catch up. Enter the Starfire electrics…

Guitar World · May 26, 2025

“He was a huge fan. He could identify, ‘No, that’s not ’78 because Jerry’s playing through this pedal’”: John Mayer was a Grateful Dead fanatic – before he landed the Dead & Company gig

Don Was has revealed how he helped connect the dots between John Mayer and Bob Weir

MusicRadar · May 22, 2025

“I sat in this chair here and - ‘cos I’m not the best player, let’s be honest - I recorded one note at a time": Calvin Harris on being inspired by the Grateful Dead and the unconventional way he recorded the guitar riff on new single, Blessings

“I bought this guitar which was the guy’s favourite guitar, apparently,” he says of his recently acquired Martin dreadnought

Guitar World · May 16, 2025

“If Bobby and Mickey want to do it, I want to do it”: Dead & Company’s Sphere residency is drawing to a close – but is new music from John Mayer and Bob Weir on the cards?

The band had originally formed as a live act, but the project could yet live on after the residency wraps this week

BANG Premier · May 13, 2025

Dead and Company set for trio of concerts at San Francisco's iconic Golden Gate Park in August

Dead and Company are to play three concerts at San Francisco's iconic Golden Gate Park this August.

The Guardian - UK · May 12, 2025

‘LSD? Been there, done that’: the Grateful Dead’s 60 years of drugs, epic noodling and obsessive fans

Forget Swifties. The Grateful Dead have the world’s most devoted following. As he heads for Britain, founder Bobby Weir talks Vegas spectaculars, bootleggers and life after Jerry Garcia

1 2 3 4 5

Coverage From

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.