musicradar.com (yeah, me neither) is reporting that a few guys have bought the rights to make a movie about the young Jerry Garcia before the Grateful Dead. No word on timelines and they have no screenwriter attached to the project but I’d be most interested in seeing who will play Garcia. My guess is that [...]

When you reach a certain point in your career, they ask you to do cool stuff like write the score to a volcano eruption; even if that volcano erupts once an hour, every hour, on the Vegas Strip. Such is the life for Mickey Hart and his brother-in-percussion, Zakir Hussain.
The Mirage is currently overhauling their [...]

In preparation for the release of “Rocking The Cradle: Egypt 1978″ DVD of the Dead’s performance at the Great Pyramid in Egypt, dead.net is hosting a great video of “Bertha” from the September 16th show.
The DVD goes on sale September 30 and features 13 songs. They have CDs and shirts and whatnot as package deals. [...]