Grateful Dead

If you are heading to Chicago this weekend to see the Grateful Dead's final shows, we've got you covered.

The Grateful Dead have added two additional reunion shows amid a frenzy of interest.

The Grateful Dead song "One Thing to Try" cautions listeners "Don't be a collector of more than you need," but that doesn't apply to tickets to the band's 50th anniversary reunion shows, which are fetching absurd prices on the secondary market.

The other day, I posted the instructions for mail-ordering tickets to the Grateful Dead shows this summer at Soldier Field. It's an exact science. You gotta put certain info on the envelope and enclose a properly filled out index card. Think of it like sending in a rebate form...

We wind up a week's worth of Dead on the Brizz Record Bin with a song the band played live every year between 1970 and 1995, the year Jerry Garcia died. "Going Down the Road Feelin' Bad" is a cover song that many different artists have played, but the Dead made their own...

It's day three of our five day Grateful Dead marathon on the Brizz Record Bin in honor of their 50th Anniversary shows at Soldier Field in July, dubbed 'Fare Thee Well.' The phrase comes from their ballad "Brokedown Palace." Today's Record Bin tune is one of my favorite show-openers, "Bertha...

The shows have been announced, hotels are being booked and dye-hard Deadheads are mailing off their ticket requests for their three shows at Soldier Field, July 3 - July 5. I did not do the the mail order thing this time, but I have many times in the past...

It's day 2 of a week's worth of Grateful Dead songs on the Brizz Record Bin. Back in the early days of MTV (remember kids, the 'M' stands for Music), this was the only Grateful Dead video you could see. It comes from the opening sequence of the excellent Grateful Dead Movie, released in 1976...

In 1978, just about every artist dipped their toe into the disco pool. It's present throughout Pink Floyd's epic The Wall (1979). The Rolling Stones played with it on "Miss You." Even the Grateful Dead got funky on Shakedown Street (1978). It was produced by Little Feat's Lowell George and like most Dead studio efforts, the music was better served up live...

The Grateful Dead will celebrate their 50th anniversary next year, and they're marking the occasion with a film executive produced by Martin Scorsese and billed as "their first official career-spanning documentary."