Manor Downs, Austin, Texas on July 31, 1982 Source: Don’s Pick is from Manor Downs, Austin, Texas on July 31, 1982
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Don’s Pick This Week is from Manor Downs, Austin, Texas on July 31, 1982, Don’s Pick Next Week is from August 1, 1973: Jerry Garcia’s 31st Birthday, Roosevelt Stadium, Jersey City One Night, Two Stages, and a Full Celebration of Bobby Weir: August 29 Is a Date Worth Clearing Your Calendar For There are tribute
Don’s Pick: Roosevelt Stadium, Jersey City, July 18, 1972 Source: Don’s Pick: Roosevelt Stadium, Jersey City, July 18, 1972
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A twenty-CD box set documenting seven complete, previously unreleased concerts from the band’s 1985 summer tour The Grateful Dead’s archival project has been operating at full speed for years, producing releases that consistently reveal how deep and how rewarding the vault truly is, but the announcement that arrived this week is something genuinely different in
There is a version of the Grateful Dead’s legacy that lives in archives, in museum exhibitions, in anniversary pressings and archival documentaries and the careful stewardship of estates and foundations. That version matters enormously, and the community rightly celebrates it. But there is another version, less formally institutional and more immediately alive, that lives in
There is a single sentence that explains more about what Phil Lesh and Friends became, and why it mattered so much to everyone who was part of it, than any setlist or lineup announcement or archival recording ever could. Warren Haynes, the guitarist and vocalist who served as one of the most consistent and creatively
This week alone contains a musical reckoning that was fifty-four years in the making There are summers that feel like maintenance years in the life of a musical community, years when the touring is steady but unremarkable, the releases routine, the events predictable. And then there are summers like this one, where it seems like
Planet Drum Circle is Today & The JGB Radio Show is Tonight! The Ace Radio Show is Tomorrow night, The Phil & Friends Radio is Tuesday Night… Jul 05, 2026 The Rhythm at the Center of Everything: Planet Drum Circle, Mickey Hart’s World Mission, and the Science of Why Drumming Heals There is a question
Some concerts end when the house lights come up. Others end when the last musician leaves the stage, when the parking lot clears, when the recording is finally shelved and the tour bus pulls away for the last time. And then there is a third category — a very small one — where the ending
There are musical legacies, and then there are living ecosystems. The Grateful Dead belong to the second category, and in the summer of 2026, the evidence is everywhere at once — in a San Francisco gallery where a scaled Wall of Sound is broadcasting vault tapes to a room full of strangers, in the tour
