the grateful dead
The Next Life of the Grateful Dead
Why a new generation of heads—musicians, visual artists, and other seekers—are turning to the sounds and styles of the world's most freewheeling band.
The Grateful Dead's Grateful Dads
Outside the Dead and Company's two-night run at Madison Square Garden, we interviewed the ultimate Deadheads: Dads.
Fifty Years On, We're Living in the Grateful Dead's Future
Radio Motherboard talks time travel, sound tech, and pre-internet virality with Amir Bar-Lev, director of a new doc about the Dead.
The Story of the Best Grateful Dead Show Ever
'Cornell '77: The Music, the Myth, and the Magnificence of the Grateful Dead's Concert at Barton Hall' explores the show's story.
The Trippy Life of the LSD Manufacturer Who ‘Helped Create the 60s’
Augustus Owsley Stanley III was the LSD chemist and audio maestro who not only created the Grateful Dead's "Wall of Sound" and inspired the band's dancing bear iconography, but also created the drugs that sparked the "spirit of that era."
Bob Weir's Long, Strange Trip West
The iconic member of The Grateful Dead talks his first solo record in over a decade, fascination with the American West, and how he's still, somehow, searching.
The Grateful Dead's Drummer Mickey Hart Paints Using Vibrations
The Dead's legendary drummer wants his paintings to get you high.
Watch Courtney Barnett Cover The Grateful Dead's "New Speedway Boogie" on 'The Tonight Show'
The 'Jimmy Fallon' crowd got to see Barnett's second TV performance in less than a week.
Tim Hecker Doesn't Care About Institutional Acceptance—He Just Wants to Orchestrate Sonic Anarchy
How 15th century chorales and digital narratives inspired the Canadian musician's latest album 'Love Streams.'
The National to Drop Vast Grateful Dead Comp 'Day of the Dead'
The Dessner brothers, in conjunction with HIV organization Red Hot, have spent four years creating this Grateful Dead covers comp alongside some 60-odd awesome artists.
I Got Locked Up for 21 Years for Selling LSD
VICE contributor Seth Ferranti explains how the DEA's early-90s crackdown on LSD landed him behind bars for the first two decades of his adult life.
Ready to Die: Three Days of Drugs and Disintegration with The Grateful Dead
Over the Fourth of July, America's quintessential band said farewell. We spent those days embedded with Deadheads, exploring our dreams and doing acid. This is what happened.