NO FOOLIN— The Skull & Roses Bay Area Warm-Up weekend continues on Saturday April 1st as CUBENSIS & THE ALLIGATORS make their way to Hopmonk Sebastopol for the one more Saturday night of good ol’ Grateful Dead to melt your worries away, put a smile on your face and then steal it right off your head.

NorCal Favorites LOVIN' DEAD are back for another round at Toot's Tavern in charming Crockett on the Carquinez on Fri March 10th. Havin' fun and playing live Dead is what Lovin' Dead does best, striving to provide a unique yet familiar musical experience. The fellas are students of the songs, exploring interactive psychedelic jams, smokin' guitar work, soulful three-part vocal harmonies & always Searching for the Sound.

Here is a show worth planning a romantic road trip for! A rare appearance of LIKE A ROSE, performing the music of the Jerry Garcia Band with Heart & Soul! This exciting new supergroup features familiar faces from Melvin Seals & JGB, The Dead 70's, and Lovin' Dead. Like A Rose brings that Gospel sound with three part harmonies to lift your spirits and open your heart. With opening set by red-hot band WOLF JETT that will make you dance, sing and howl.

In just ten days, it’s another Bluegrass & Deadheads mixer with acclaimed young NorCal rising stars CRYING UNCLE BLUEGRASS BAND and an exciting new JGB Tribute, THE ALAMO MISSION BAND at Toot’s Tavern. Crying Uncle is one of the most exciting young bands in acoustic music, plays a unique mix of Bluegrass, Dawg, Jazz and original modern acoustic music. Brothers Miles and Teo Quale are joined by award-winning bassist Jason Howard.

This Friday night at the Ivy, worlds collide when DUSTY GREEN BONES BAND celebrate 9 years together with a barn-burner Jamgrass show in the tradition of Billy Strings and Greensky Bluegrass. This great band features the best banjo-ist around IMO; Isaac Cantor. Opening the show will be a new acoustic take on the Grateful Dead Songbook, TRiPLE featuring members of Lovin’ Dead on the guitar, standup bass, and… an Accordion. FUN!

High Moon Records is proud to announce the first-ever comprehensive anthology from singer-songwriter Laurie Styvers. Gemini Girl: The Complete Hush Recordings arrives on 2XCD and digital download on Friday, February 17.

In a land abundant with Grateful Dead tribute bands, Dark Star Orchestra (DSO) on February 2 in Sacramento, California, strengthened its unofficial claim as the quintessential torch bearers. Flanked by a devoted and euphoric nearly sold-out audience at the 975-capacity Crest Theatre, the band on this night didn’t replicate an actual Grateful Dead show as they are inclined to do.

Arts & Crafts is proud to announce today’s premiere of “The Moment Is A Wild Place,” the latest single from the long-fabled collaboration between Gord Downie, late frontman of legendary Canadian rock band The Tragically Hip, and GRAMMY® Award-winning producer/musician Bob Rock. The epic ballad heralds the upcoming release of Lustre Parfait, the ninth album to bear Downie’s name outside of The Tragically Hip, and the first to bear Rock’s.

Celebrated alt-country band Rusty Truck has announced that Sheryl Crow will join the band for their Grand Ole Opry debut on February 28. RT frontman Mark Seliger, who also happens to be one of the modern era’s preeminent portrait photographers, has captured countless photos of Crow over the past three decades, including her iconic 1996 cover of Rolling Stone and her Be Myself album cover in 2016. Crow is featured on Rusty Truck’s latest single “Find My Way” and will join the band for the first-ever live performance of the song during RT’s Opry debut on February 28.

On Monday, January 23, Backline announced Break The Barriers; a movement that aims to end the stigma around mental health by asking participants to commit to taking care of their own mental health, and take action to address and dismantle the systemic and historical barriers that BIPOC communities face when seeking mental health care.