A half-dozen charities will be making an appearance at the Dead & Company concerts at Madison Square Garden this weekend, part of the “Participation Row” social action area organized by the non-profit group HeadCount.

It's all green lights from here as we make our way toward the November 20th release of FARE THEE WELL: CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF GRATEFUL DEAD. Take a sneak peek at this rousing rendition of "West L.A. Fadeway" from July 4th, pulled from the Dead.net exclusive Complete version which features full audio and video from all three shows along with behind-the-scenes footage and intermission music by Circles Around The Sun.

FARE THEE WELL: Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Grateful Dead is a fine art, hardcover coffee table photography book by famed rock photographer—and bona fide Deadhead—Jay Blakesberg.

Music and Arts festival The Mad Tea Party Jam, presented by Appalachian Jamwich, has announced the dates for their 5th annual event.  The unique 3-day festival will take place June 16-19, 2016, at a new venue, Four Quarters Interfaith in Artemis, PA.  This premiere venue of the Northeast features shaded camping, showers, flushing toilets, swimming holes, and a beautiful "vibration" built by years of spiritual love and respect for the land.

Bassnectar, the genre-bending artist who once rocked so hard that he sank a stage, has been announced as the first headliner of Euphoria, a four-day music and camping festival returning to Austin, Texas April 7 through 10, 2016.

Joe Marcinek Band is hitting the road this December and will be making stops in Columbus OH, Covington KY, Syracuse NY, Buffalo NY and Cleveland OH. Joe Marcinek Band’s December tour will feature Joe Marcinek on guitar, Reed Mathis (Tea Leaf Green) on bass, Holly Bowling on keys and Pete Koopmans on drums. Jason Hann (String Cheese Incident) will join the Columbus and Covington shows on percussion. Michelangelo Carubba (Turkuaz) will join as percussion for Syracuse, Buffalo and Cleveland shows. Punk-pop electronic duo, ROAR!

Mike returns to the road in January, this time hitting the western half of the U.S. with his band on the heels of a well-received June run. The tour will begin with the band's debut shows in Texas beginning in Austin on January 22 before carving its way west with stops in Flagstaff, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Denver and others.

Always a pleasure guys, thanks for meeting with me to talk about all things Vine Street.  First off let’s talk about the new album you have coming out. Would you care to share any details or inspirations?

In Colorado there is an insatiable hunger for modern music. Bars, clubs and venues are taping into that hunger by offering shows in genres that in years past would have been met with rebuke and dislike. However it is clear that times have changed. TAUK as a band represent those changes.

Ilana J is a British singer songwriter whose critically acclaimed debut EP 'Free Falling From The Ground Up' was inspired by how she feels about her music, which is back in her following a long break; " I am letting the music and the lyrics 'free fall' out of me and am growing everyday from the 'ground up' which is intensely fulfilling on a whole new level".