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I'm now in my 21st year as the Gater's Music Director/Assistant Program Director and in my 16th year holding down the fort as the Gater's Afternoon Drive Air Talent.

The band formed in 2011 after James and Dan met while touring the festival circuit with their respective bands - Elliot Minor and Go Audio - and decided to set up a new project, The Dead Famous, taking on Ollie Collins and Dave Baker to complete the line-up. Support comes from Echoes Of An Age, an alternative rock band from Hemel Hempstead, and She ... (more)

We all remember specific moments from our first concert experiences, and Thomas Butler recalls two from his first Grateful Dead show at age 9: the "cigarettes" people were passing around and colliding with a woman wearing only a soaking wet white sheet after being tossed over the fence by his dad to skip getting a second ticket.

WASHINGTON D.C. , May 13, 2013 - The Marin County coast beckons with a simplicity and beauty all its own, somehow unscathed by the modern age, and captured forever in the mind from the moment you experience it.

Billy Iuso focuses on songs on his new album, 'Naked.' Hear him and his band, the Restless Natives, at Lafayette Square on Wednesday, May 15, 2013, and at Tipitina's on Saturday, May 18.

Levittown musician Danny DeGennaro was targeted for robbery in 2011 when the crime went awry and he was gunned down by a shotgun blast, a Bucks County prosecutor told a jury Tuesday.

Bruce Hornsby is a self-described proselytizer of good music and he is preaching his gospel one show at a time.

Late last year, Dogfish Head Craft Brewery and Grateful Dead , two pioneers who built their followings by connecting directly with beer lovers and music lovers, asked their supporters to help them craft a pale ale called American Beauty.

Behind the Banner - visualization of what happens in the 150ms when the cabal of data vultures decide which ad to show you.

Mickey Hart, perhaps best known for his rhythmic genius on drums with the rock band Grateful Dead, is now in the process of picking up where he left off in his highly successful Worlds Within Tour.

It was like attending a large Memorial Day cookout in a public park. With live music performed by an ensemble led by a former member of the Grateful Dead, of course.

Dennis McNally's bona fides as an author are a matter of record, thanks to his critically acclaimed books about the Grateful Dead and famed Beat poet Jack Kerouac.

PHIL LESH, JOHN SCOFIELD, JOHN KADLECIK, JOHN MEDESKI AND JOE RUSSO TO PLAY THE CAP AND PENN'S PEAK THIS SUMMER Grateful Dead/Furthur bassist Phil Lesh had been previously announced as a headliner for this summer's Gathering Of The Vibes festival with a version of his Phil Lesh and Friends' outfit.

Last night was a busy night at Terrapin Crossroads, where attendees of an event dubbed "Turtle Rock" were treated to a grand total of four sets of music between 4 p.m. and 11 p.m. in San Rafael, CA.

David Lemieux, the Grateful Dead archivist and the Dave behind "Dave's Picks 6," calls this three-CD set "the lost tapes." That's because they were missing for more than 40 years, surfacing in July when the ex-wife of a former Dead roadie found them when she was packing up her house in North Carolina.

At 7:30pm on Saturday, May 18th The Flying Monkey is honored to bring the legendary Mickey Hart and his band to the Monkey stage.

When Rob Hunt moved to Berks County 20 years ago, he says he found the vistas so beautiful it suggested music to him.

Three hot New England Music Award winners/nominees heat up The Stone Church stage on Saturday, May 17.

The National surprised fans today by debuting a video for their new track "Sea of Love" during their Reddit Ask Me Anything session .

Pete Sears is a lucky man. Almost 40 years after losing his bass during a concert riot in Germany, he has been reunited with his one-of-a kind instrument made by Doug Irwin, the famed luthier who built guitars for Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead .