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Couch Tour Alert: Melvin Seals & JGB - Tonight!

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Fri, 09/27/2013 - 3:48pm

Tonight Phoncert, a new live music streaming application for iPhones and iOS devices, will broadcast Melvin Seals & JGB performing live from the Beachland Ballroom in Cleavland, OH. Fans can download Phoncert free to their phones and listen from anywhere on the go, or stream online at www.phoncert.com/listen.

Furthur | Red Rocks Ampitheatre | Morrison, CO | 9/21/13 | Review

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Thu, 09/26/2013 - 4:08pm

After kicking off what some are calling the Fare Thee Well Tour with two nights at Red Rocks, it was clear walking up the ramps that there was a sustained energy ready to boil over on Saturday night. After three consecutive late summers on the rocks, Furthur brought out all of the tricks on this run, and finally decided to not only give us the best of, like they had in previous years, but also lots of songs they’d never dusted off in Colorado.

Robert Hunter Interview with Reuters unpublished excerpts

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Tue, 09/24/2013 - 3:02pm

Grateful Dead songwriter Robert Hunter talks about creating songs and performing, remembers Garcia, Dylan, Joplin, and reflects on being a test subject for CIA experiments with psychedelic drugs. This is a full transcript of the interview for Reuters, held Aug. 22, 2013. A link to Reuters story is here: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSBRE98F07720130916

The Dead's Sunshine Daydream is Available Now!

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Tue, 09/17/2013 - 2:10pm

The visual and sonic glory of Sunshine Daydream  hits the small screen and airwaves today. Was it worth the wait? Heck ya!!! There's a 110% chance you will be entranced by Jerry's incredible finger-picking and the mythopoetic imagery that transported those in attendance to "other-worldly" levels. You might even find yourself floating out of your seat, inspired by concert-goers shimmying to the band's elevated boogie.

Grand Point North Festival | Burlington, VT | 9/15/13 | Review

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Tue, 09/17/2013 - 1:22pm

After a summer playing dates with the likes of the Allman Brothers Band and Tedeschi Trucks, Grace Potter & The Nocturnals brought it all back home to Vermont for Grand Point North, the two-day music festival they host at Waterfront Park on the banks of Lake Champlain in downtown Burlington.

Lockn' Festival 2013 | Day 2 in Arrington, VA

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Mon, 09/16/2013 - 1:27pm

A side project of The Infamous Stringdusters, The Founding Fathers, Andy Falco and Chris Pandolfi combine their strings, pedals and whatever instrument is within reach to form as impressive of a duo as is out on the road today.  Their set:

Have A Cigar, Sitting on Top of the World, Ravi Shankar Jam>Listen To The Wind Blow>Ravi Shankar Jam, Fork in the Road, While My Guitar Gently Weeps

Lockn' Festival 2013 | Day 1 in Arrington, VA

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Sun, 09/15/2013 - 7:50am

All the headliners delivered multiple performances that displayed why they were the headliners at Lockn’ Festival and all the up and comers gave performances that ensure that the state of the Jamband genre is in a very good place.  Much of the credit for the scene remaining so strong is due Phil Lesh.

Bruce Hornsby | The Orange Peel | Asheville, NC | 8/9/13 | Review

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Fri, 08/23/2013 - 1:37pm

Bruce Hornsby is an American treasure who continues to be more than obliging when it comes to giving the people what they want.  From 1980’s pop star to worrying some folks at a nearby outdoor venue in 2013 regarding this show drawing “too many Hippies”, his career achievements stretch far and wide.  The collaborations over 30 years are truly impressive, varied and extensive with prime examples being Don Henley,

Anela Lauren | Harpin On The Dead | Review

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Thu, 08/22/2013 - 1:57pm

Grateful Dead music continues to inspire and muse generations of contemporary musicians. When the band played, their music fostered an experience each night that transformed the ordinary bounds of everyday life beyond possibility. A trip into the transcendental. Even if the words and melodies were familiar to followers, something about their approach of spontaneity and improvisation combined with an overarching reworking of Americana made the music familiar and new simultaneously.

Tonight! Dennis McNally speaks about Jerry Garcia and The Dead

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Tue, 08/06/2013 - 3:26pm
Dennis McNally, as a trained historian and biographer, will talk about Jerry Garcia's upbringing and his distinctively San Francisco set of values that help shaped his own life and the Dead.