The Grateful Dead News

A long-running offshoot of 60s psychedelic rock group Jefferson Airplane, Hot Tuna made a stop at the historic Keswick Theatre in Glenside Friday night.

The Ecuadorean embassy's celebrity refugee is used to living in what Assange likens to a space station as he battles extradition Julian Assange's supporters outside the Ecuadorean embassy one year on from the WikiLeaks whistleblower taking refuge there.

The third annual "Grateful Dead Meet Up at the Movies 2013" concert will be shown at Cinemark's Movies 16 at 7:30 p.m. Aug. 1. Originally shot on 16-millimeter film on the grounds of the Oregon County Fair in Veneta, Ore.

The summer season at the Mann Center is under way, and there are classical concerts celebrating everything from Disney, the Grateful Dead to the greatest moments in Philadelphia sports history.

Bonnaroo was in full swing Saturday, with temperatures in Manchester, Tenn., warming into the upper 80s and the festival featuring a lineup that ranged from Dwight Yoakam to Bjork.

The Grateful Dead guitarist made a surprise appearance at Sonoma, California's Huichica Music Festival on Sat., June 15, joining Los Angeles-based psych-rocker Jonathan Wilson for four songs during an afternoon set that included Dead favorite "Dark Star" and the classic "Truckin'."

The outdoor patio at Californos in Westport is a perfect venue for fun acoustic music and it made the perfect Friday night when local bands The Buttermilk Boys and The Dirty Rhythm Band played for a good-sized crowd of fans.

Neil Young, Further featuring former Grateful Dead band members Phil Lesh and Bob Weir, Widespread Panic, The Zac Brown Incident, which is Zac Brown without his normal band, and The String Cheese Incident.

Film historian Ed Rampell details Hollywood's entangled relationship with the CIA and the Pentagon; HOUSES OF THE DEAD: Nancy Kurshan exposes the cruel human rights offenses taking place inside America's vast gulag of Control Unit Prisons; BROTHERHOOD OF SUMMER: David Macaray charts the history of the most powerful union in the US: the Baseball ... (more)

The Grateful Dead's Bob Weir is back in action. Nearly two months after collapsing during a concert in New York, RollingStone.com says the 65-year-old Rock and Roll Hall of Famer made his comeback Wednesday night, hosting a show at Terrapin Crossroads in San Rafael, California as he resumed his "Weir Here" weekly web series.

Once again, Rhino Entertainment has outdone itself with this elegant, limited edition , 14-disc boxed set of five Grateful Dead shows from May 1977 that have achieved "mythical" status among Deadheads.

Soul Doctor: Journey of a Rock-Star Rabbi, which tells the true story of the beloved and controversial father of popular Jewish music, Shlomo Carlebach, will open at Broadway 's Circle in the Square Theatre this summer.

Back in April Bob Weir was unable to finish Furthur's final show of a Capitol Theatre residency and shortly thereafter announced he would be taking a few months off.

While the Blyth Festival's opening night gala, along with the premiere of Beyond The Farm Show, is set for Friday, June 28, the Festival's main stage season starts two weeks early this year with the remount of Dear Johnny Deere.

Hey hey, they're the monks... a group of Tibetan holy men could be bringing Nirvana back to the charts after signing a global record deal.

It is clear that the connection between Tea Leaf Green and the Grateful Dead family is growing.

Atlanta rockers talk "weird red tape" in Lebanon, the ease of playing in Iraq and silence felt in Dubai; Next: Antarctica The last known American rock band to perform in Egypt was The Grateful Dead in 1978a that is, until recently.

Every jam band worth its hemp has covered the Dead at some point. Phish, moe., Umphrey's McGee and others all admit to plucking away Grateful Dead songs in their early days.

John Darnielle and his current version of the Mountain Goats visited famed rock club Maxwell's in Hoboken, NJ last week just a few days after it was announced that the legendary venue will close at the end of July .

I apologize in advance for the smarminess of this column. This is the direct result of almost an entire week of listening to nothing but Grateful Dead bootlegs and The Mental Illness Happy Hour .