Brief letters: Rock on | Tinned Tories | No Idolatory | Age old debts | Major contribution
June 2023
Pass notes
Rock marathons: why Paul McCartney longs for the days of half hour gigs
In recent years, concerts have grown longer and longer - and McCartney blames Bruce Springsteen. But the Boss isn’t the worst offender …
August 2022
Mo Ostin, US record exec who signed Jimi Hendrix and the Kinks, dies aged 95
Headhunted by Frank Sinatra, the head of Warner/Reprise oversaw classic releases by the likes of Neil Young, Fleetwood Mac and Prince
June 2021
Teenage kicks
Liz Phair’s teenage obsessions: ‘I wanted to be a 6,000-year-old vampire with style’
The singer-songwriter on watching The Hunger 60 times, how EE Cummings inspired her lyrics and discovering magic mushrooms at a Grateful Dead show
June 2020
Letter: Jeremy Marre and the Grateful Dead
Chris Hardman writes: Jeremy Marre made a number of excellent documentaries featuring Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead
May 2020
From the Guardian archive
Disgracing the Grateful Dead - archive, 1970
29 May 1970 A cheapskate sound system ruins the band’s performance at the Finney Green festival in Staffordshire
What I'm really watching
What I'm really watching: The Grateful Dead movie
A new wave of jam bands on YouTube reminds this Deadhead of the film that launched a thousand grooves
Listener's digest
Grateful Dead: where to start in their back catalogue
In Listener’s digest, our writers help you explore the work of great musicians. Next up: the US group who are more than just a jam band
December 2019
Joe Smith obituary
Record company executive who signed the Grateful Dead and Van Morrison, and enjoyed massive success with the Eagles
September 2019
Robert Hunter obituary
Robert Hunter, lyricist for Grateful Dead, dies at 78
August 2019
'Groovy, groovy, groovy': listening to Woodstock 50 years on – all 38 discs
It was a blueprint for Live Aid and every mega-festival since. We survey a new archive box set – in full – to uncover the real story of these ‘three days of peace and music’
March 2019
Brief letters
We’d love Nancy Banks-Smith’s take on Fleabag
Brief letters: Music-making | Women on TV | Toilets | Spring
Don’t speak ill of the Grateful Dead
Letter: Richard Gilyead takes issue with the Dead being referred to as a ‘karaoke band’
The Guardian view on improvisation: in praise of imperfection
Editorial: From the Grateful Dead to André Previn, collective spontaneity makes music dangerous – and alive
September 2018
The Fashion autumn/winter 2018
Model Kaia Gerber: ‘Growing up, I was obsessed with Grateful Dead merch’
The supermodel answers 19 quick-fire questions
June 2018
Heart of gold: Neil Young's online archives are a revolution in fandom
Michael Hann
The ornery singer-songwriter’s new online venture soups up the CD boxset with digital user-friendliness – and points the way to a new kind of music obsession
February 2018
John Perry Barlow obituary
John Perry Barlow: the late internet pioneer who wrote for the Grateful Dead
November 2017
Readers recommend
Readers recommend playlist: songs about redemption
Primal Scream, Grateful Dead and Van Morrison lead the call for atonement and renewal
