grateful dead

Back in 1972 the cost of a gallon of gas was 55 cents. Richard Nixon was our nation's president, soon to experience a fall from grace.  The Dallas Cowboys defeated the Miami Dolphins in Super Bowl VI.  "American Pie" by Don McLean was #1 on…

Dark Star Orchestra (DSO), the Grateful Dead tribute band hailing out of Chicago Illinois, will return to the Town Ballroom in Buffalo. Since forming, DSO has played 2,200-plus shows, recreating Grateful Dead concerts in their entirety. To…

A couple years ago, few knew of Holly Bowling. The unassuming Phish fan -- a classically trained pianist with a love of improvisational music -- was just going about her life. And that life would be changed on July 31, 2013, when Phish…

I love the Grateful Dead. American Beauty changed my life when I was 14. I have a multi-colored 13-point lightning bolt encompassing a New York Yankees logo tattooed on my left shoulder. I have spent, now, more than half my life chasing…

Time has flown. It's been half a year since we last spoke with Holly Bowling, who has been traversing the country performing the music of Phish, The Grateful Dead and more through her classical transcriptions of music from the two, and…

On April 8, multi-instrumentalist and one-man jam band Keller Williams, hosted a night of tasteful jams and brought along a fancy new group of amazing musicians to the Westcott Theater in Syracuse. Adding Gibb Droll on acoustic guitar,…

To an interloper who missed opening night, witnessing Joe Russo's Almost Dead at Brooklyn Bowl on Friday, March 25, could have been a bit like waking up on top of Mount Everest without knowing how you got there. Usually concertgoers stay…

Joe Russo's Almost Dead will kick off three sold-out nights at The Brooklyn Bowl on Thursday, March 24 for Freaks Ball XVI. This constitutes the band's fourth run of shows at the venue where the world first heard former Furthur drummer…

David Gans is a man with many talents. After launching a music career in 1970, Gans became a noted and award-winning journalist born, writing for Rolling Stone, Relix and BAM, while also serving as editor at a few different publications.…

On November 16, DSO barreled into the Palace Theatre in Albany, a place guitarist Rob Eaton said is near and dear to the band's heart. There are more Grateful Dead cover bands than I can count in the Albany area alone. These groups keep the…