Robert Hunter successfully turned a delightful acid trip into a song with “Dark Star”. This is one of Grateful Dead’s deepest songs, and it manages to blend together what an acid experience is like ...

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 ...

Basketball legend Bill Walton's death on Monday sparked instant tributes for the gregarious live he led on the court and at the mic. Outside of basketball, Walton was a major Deadhead. He was probably ...

Tens of thousands of Deadheads descended on San Francisco's Golden Gate Park on Friday night for the first of Dead & Company's three weekend shows celebrating 60 years of the Grateful Dead. The shows ...

People have been listing their ten favorite Grateful Dead songs on Bluesky, following a post from @inthefade, and The Mountain Goats‘ John Darnielle joined in. His list includes “Jack Straw,” “He’s ...

In May 1965, Robert Hunter popped into a pizza parlor in Menlo Park, California, to see his friend Jerry Garcia play in his new electric band, the Warlocks. “They were good, just dandy,” recalls ...

While the pandemic has been hard on working musicians, it’s had its blessings as well. Not to be Pollyannaish about it, but it’s given them time for reflection and introspection that they might not ...