The Grateful Dead

Dark Star Orchestra To Bring an Acoustic Grateful Dead Set to MIM

There are an estimated 300 Grateful Dead tribute bands--by one website's account--including the Tempe-based Xtra Ticket. But of all those bands, only Dark Star Orchestra actually play the Dead. Let us be a little clearer. DSO picks a Grateful Dead show from a list of thousands spanning the Dead's 4 ... More >>

David Tyda, What Are You Listening To?

David Tyda Tyda is the owner of EATERAZ.com, Arizona BBQ Festival and Arizona Taco Festival. He invites you to Flavors of the West Sunday, Feburary 17. For more information, go here. When you put your key in the ignition and turn on the radio, what station would play right now? I know it's not m ... More >>

Top Five Phoenix Music Stories of the Week

The news waits for no one -- at least that's what we read somewhere -- so it's perfectly understandable that you, the reader, might have missed out on a musical tidbit, breaking news about your favorite venue, or one of our rants. So enjoy this digest-style sampling of some of our biggest stories f ... More >>

Bob Weir Is Still Painting Cinematic Scenes

Bob Weir of The Grateful Dead: "The Music Is Working Out Just Fine"

In this week's issue, we chat with with former Grateful Dead and current Furthur guitarist Bob Weir. We ended up with more material than we could fit, so please enjoy another installment of Outtakes, where we sweep up all sorts of good stuff that ended up on the cutting room floor. Grateful Dead fo ... More >>

Jesse Malin Links The Clash and The Grateful Dead

See also: Chasers Sold to New Owners and Becomes Pub Rock, A Music Venue With an In-House Radio Broadcasting Studio Jesse Malin has done it all, or most of it at least. In his barely-teens he was fronting Jersey-based hardcore ensemble Heart Attack, then spent the '90s in glam-punk wreckers D-Gen ... More >>

Top Phoenix Music Stories of the Week

The news waits for no one -- at least that's what we read somewhere -- so it's perfectly understandable that you, the reader, might have missed out on a musical tidbit, breaking news about your favorite venue, or one of our rants. So enjoy this digest-style sampling of some of our biggest stories f ... More >>

Happy Birthday Jerry Garcia: Why The Grateful Dead Still Matters

See also: Grateful Dead Drummer Mickey Hart Taps the Cosmos See also: Melvin Seals at JGB Aren't the Jerry Garcia Band -- But That's Okay See also: Dark Star Orchestra at McDowell Mountain Music Festival Switching on the Grateful Dead channel this morning on satellite radio (yes, I have it preprogr ... More >>

Jorma Kaukonen of Hot Tuna Discusses Levon Helm and Music's Original Social Network

Guitarist Jorma Kaukonen and bassist Jack Casady go back. Way back. Before the two joined San Franciscan psychedelic outfit Jefferson Airplane they played together in a group called The Triumphs. After (while Airplane morphed into the subsequently cheesier and cheesier Starship), the two formed Ho ... More >>

Melvin Seals and JGB Aren't the Jerry Garcia Band -- But That's Okay

Dead Winter Carpenters: Not Your Typical Virtuoso Punky Bluegrass Combo

Dead Winter Carpenters are another group of virtuoso musicians toiling in bluegrass obscurity. But it shouldn't--and won't always--be that way? Though it would be easy to write this band off as another Yonder Mountain String Band or Trampled by Turtles knock-off giving a punk spin to tradgrass as t ... More >>

From Print: Blogs Teased in Our April 19 Issue

This week, New Times ran a list in our print publication highlighting some of the most interesting posts published at Up On The Sun over the past week. Here are links to those posts. What are our 10 favorite awkward dance moves at Coachella? How close does Dark Star Orchestra get to The Grateful ... More >>

Dark Star Orchestra at McDowell Mountain Music Festival

See also: A Look at the Creamy Radio Stage at McDowell Mountain Music Festival See also: Galactic's Robert Mercurio on Carnivale Electricos See also: Ozomatli, Galactic, and More at McDowell Mountain Music Festival Dark Star Orchestra McDowell Mountain Music Festival at Compound Grill Saturday, A ... More >>

Arizona Local Fest 2012 @ The Sail Inn

Scottsdale Resident Jerry Lawson of The Persuasions To Perform on NBC's The Sing Off

The Persuasions in 1972​The idea of Scottsdale resident Jerry Lawson, onetime leader of The Persuasions, one of the most prominent a cappella group of '60s and '70s, competing on NBC's a cappella competition The Sing Off seems crazy. But that's exactly what happened last season, when the ... More >>

Grateful Dead Drummer Mickey Hart Taps the Cosmos

Fugazi: Five "Waiting Room" Listening Essentials

What do Fugazi and The Grateful Dead have in common? The similarities go beyond diehard fans and a few experimental instrumental tracks. These Washington, D.C. post-hardcore juggernauts have joined the ranks of live-oriented acts like The Grateful Dead and Phish by sharing an archive of over 800 li ... More >>

Grateful Dead Movie from 1977 Will Be in Theaters for One Night (4/20, Obvi)

Flashbacks are free, but the popcorn's gonna cost ya.​The creatively-titled The Grateful Dead Movie, directed by Jerry Garcia, will be back in theaters for one night. That night is April 20 -- 4/20 -- which adds to the fun.  The film was shot in 1974 at one of the band's legendary five- ... More >>

Dark Star Orchestra's New Tour Features Grateful Dead Setlists From the Town's DSO's Playing

Yo Gabba Gabba!, Dark Star Orchestra, Brother Ali, and More in This Week's Issue

Yo Gabba Gabba! shows kids the right way to have a good time.​Say no more, elitist parents: Yo Gabba Gabba! isn't just for kids anymore. What other children's show features awesome musical performances by some pretty big names on every episode? Kids love the music and parents like the substantial ... More >>

Grateful Get-Together

Grateful Thursdays at 910 Live

Photo by Spring Eselgroth.Xtra Ticket playing at Grateful Thursdays.​This is part of a series of reviews of bands who play weekly at local bars.The show: Grateful Thursdays at 910 Live. The look: A strip club next to a U-Haul that has been taken over by hippies. The smell: Men's cologne, da club, ... More >>

Getting Grateful

The 10 Best Tribute Bands of All Time

Hippie heroes

Dark Star Orchestra

Over the Weekend: Arizona Fetish Prom, Summer of Sound and Fake Mustaches

“Rock the Vine” at Kokopelli Winery Pays Homage to ‘70s Without the Hustle

That '70s Fest

Yo, that’s bad meanin’ good

Dark Star Orchestra: Reviving the Dead

The set lists remain the same

Sonic Youth

Destroyed Room: B-Sides & Rarities
(Geffen)

Pretty Girls Make Saves

Indie rock teams up with a baseball video game. No, really

Spin City

Groovin' on a Sunday afternoon

Party Train

Janis, the Dead, the Band, and others take the happiest trip of their lives

Dave Matthews Band

Another summer, another tour

BEST PLACE TO DEBUT YOUR DREADLOCKS

Sail Inn

Jerry Meander

Grateful Dawg isn't quite alive enough to be Dead

Best Head Shop

The Headquarters

Best Place To Get Incensed

Hippie Gypsy

Write or Wrong

Our quarterly roundup of music books lets us get lost with Chet Baker, nasty with Bill Monroe and saved by Al Green, while Ted Nugent teaches us that happiness really is a warm gun

Obsessions, Passions, Perversions

New Times music critics reveal their deepest, darkest record-buying secrets

At Long Lost Live?

In search of the historic double live album . . . who started it, and who finally finished it off?

Tune Town

Your guide to H.O.R.D.E. White-boy dreads and a hemp-cloth hacky sack are recommended, but no longer required.

THE DEAD RETURN

. . . DEADHEADS, MARIJUANA SMOKE AND LAWMEN TRAIL IN THE WAKE. BUT THIS TIME MIGHT BE DIFFERENT.

BETTER OFF DEADPHOENIX NATIVE VINCE WELNICK MAKES GOOD ON GRATEFUL EXPECTATIONS

Phish Tale

JERRY'S KIDS

NO MORE SATURDAY NIGHTS? WILL WE SURVIVE?WHAT JERRY GARCIA'S PASSING MEANS TO NON-DEADHEADS, AND A LOOK AT WHO MIGHT REPLACE HIM

HAVE A NICE TRIPDEADHEADS MAKE ONE MORE PILGRIMAGE--TO SAY GOODBYE

JOE ARPAIO'S TENT CITY