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Grateful Dead fans worldwide are invited to come together to celebrate the 60th Anniversary and the enduring legacy of the legendary band, as Rhino Entertainment and Trafalgar Releasing announce the highly anticipated 2025 edition of “Meet-Up At The Movies.”

This year, the annual theatrical event brings the Dead’s eponymous concert film, The Grateful Dead Movie, to cinemas and IMAX in select territories around the world beginning August 14 for a limited time only.

With the 2025 “Meet-Up,” Dead Heads can anticipate a truly special celebration. Adding an exhilarating new dimension this year, The Grateful Dead Movie will grace IMAX screens in the US and select territories worldwide for the first time. IMAX has meticulously remastered this larger-than-life presentation for stunning sound and picture, creating an immersive and powerful experience that truly makes this a must-see event.

Before the August 14 international release date, advanced previews will be held in 60 IMAX locations across North...

A hollow, lifeless conference hall at the Los Angeles Convention Center is just about the last place you would expect to find a Grateful Dead tribute concert on a Friday night. But it was there that MusiCares put on a show for the ages, honoring the band at its Persons of the Year gala with founding members Bob Weir and Mickey Hart in attendance (drummer Bill Kreutzmann could not make the trip and delivered a message by video) and a slew of acolytes who understood the assignment.

Typically, the MusiCares dinner is a polite affair, with guests seated respectfully for most of the performances, save the all-star finale, a staple of the event. And that’s not to say that previous Person of the Year recipients — which include Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Bruce Springsteen, Paul McCartney and Barbra Streisand — didn’t have their own rabid fanbases in attendance. But the Deadheads just do things differently.

Warren Haynes is one of many in the music world grieving after Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh died on Friday at the age of 84. The Gov’t Mule guitarist had a special creative bond with Lesh, playing with him for years onstage for Lesh’s projects Phil Lesh and Friends and the Grateful Dead offshoot The Dead.

Hours after the news of Lesh’s death broke, Haynes spoke with Rolling Stone, reminiscing about Lesh’s artistry, his distinct sound and his ability to let the music take over while he was onstage.

It’s been 50 years since Grateful Dead released Wake of the Flood, and the band is celebrating by reissuing the album in a new deluxe package due out September 29th.

Available on a 2xCD set or a single vinyl, Wake of the Flood (50th Anniversary Deluxe Version) features the album’s original seven songs — as well as previously unreleased demo recordings of “Eyes Of the World” and “Here Comes Sunshine” — on one side, while the other houses a recording of Grateful Dead’s November 1st, 1973 concert at Northwestern University’s McGaw Memorial Hall. A limited edition 12-inch vinyl picture disc, limited edition “coke bottle clear vinyl,” and limited edition “Watermark” custom vinyl will also be available. Pre-orders for the reissue are ongoing.

Wake of the Flood marked Grateful Dead’s first album following the passing of founding member Ron “Pigpen” McKernan, as well as the studio debut of band newcomers Keith and Donna Godchaux.

The Grateful Dead announced a massive box set titled June 1976 on Thursday. They’ve also shared a nine-minute version of “Friend of the Devil,” recorded live at New York’s Beacon Theatre.

Produced by Dead archivist David Lemieux, the 15-cd set contains complete performances from June 1976: Boston Music Hall (June 10th and 11th), the Beacon Theatre (June 14th and 15th) and an evening at New Jersey’s Capitol Theatre (June 19th). Author Jesse Jarnow wrote the liner notes.

June of 1976 marks a pivotal time in Dead history — the band...

Bikers, blow and Belushi: As usual when the Grateful Dead took Manhattan, the band’s five-night stand at the Palladium in April 1977 had them all. Hells Angels rode their hogs right into the dressing rooms, brandishing a knife and demanding they play “Truckin.” John Belushi, in his Saturday Night Live heyday, popped into a dressing room to share some weed. Onstage, though, something different took place in those shows. Dating back to their earliest performances a decade before, the Dead could be loose, sharp, undisciplined, sloppy, fierce – sometimes all during the same night.

The Grateful Dead's May 8th, 1977, gig at Cornell University is widely considered the ne plus ultra of Dead bootlegs. This 14-disc set, packed in a psychedelic sarcophagus, documents five gigs from later that month. It puts the consensus-maker in perspective, occasionally rivals it and, flaws notwithstanding, shows a band on a hell of a hot streak. Compared to the hard-tripping Sixties edition, this is comfort-food Dead, long on unhurried jams and raggedy country harmonies sweetened by their only-ever female band member, Donna Jean Godchaux.

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Last week, founding Grateful Dead member Bob Weir payed homage to his late bandmate, Jerry Garcia, to mark what would've been the iconic guitarist's 70th birthday. Weir led a rotating assemblage of nearly 20 musicians through a four-and-a-half hour marathon set that drew exclusively from the Garcia songbook, touching upon Grateful Dead classics and Garcia solo cuts alike.

The celebratory concert, titled Move Me Brightly, was streamed live from Weir's Tri Studios in San Rafael, just down the road from where the Grateful Dead used to practice. In addition to bringing...

On Friday night, Grateful Dead guitarist Bob Weir hosted a five-hour celebration entitled Move Me Brightly, in honor of what would have been Jerry Garcia's 70th birthday. A stirring 30-minute documentary directed by Justin Kreutzmann, son of Grateful Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann, kicked off the proceedings. Then a rotating group of musicians that numbered nearly 20-deep took turns performing in various configurations, under Weir's stewardship. The event was webcast live from Weir's Tri Studios in San Rafael, California.

Fittingly, Garcia's memory was honored with musical passages that sounded...