The Grateful Dead's new release The Warfield immediately becomes another bestseller for the band on a Billboard chart — the group's ninth of 2025.

A Grateful Dead tribute band is bringing Deadheads on a long, strange trip as it debuts at a local bar and art gallery next ...

Lyricist Robert Hunter penned profound poetry – "once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right" -- in the Grateful Dead song "Scarlet Begonias," which ...

The Grateful Dead was so much more than a jam band. Throughout the decades the band was together, they experimented with everything from rock to country to blues to folk and beyond. They also had a ...

Dead on the Creek has outlined the participants for its 20th-anniversary gathering, slated to return on June 11-14, 2026, at ...

Every Thursday, WTTW News newsletter producer Josh Terry highlights his picks for the week’s must-see cultural events.

Sure, there were Grateful Dead songs the band didn’t like much. Jerry Garcia, in particular, had a few words about songs in the band’s earlier catalog, calling “‘Doin That Rag” an “unsuccessful” song, ...

Phil Lesh, a founding member of the Grateful Dead whose electric bass playing came to define the psychedelic San Francisco sound, died Oct. 25 at age 84. The musician’s death was announced on his ...

Two Bay Area benefit concerts for Grateful Dead keyboardist Tom Constanten are highlighting medical struggles among members ...