FRUIT BATS’ ERIC JOHNSON IS HOMEWARD BOUND ON NEW ALBUM
For Eric Johnson, the singer, songwriter and guitarist behind the long-time indie rock project Fruit Bats, home is a relative idea. On a literal level, after many years spent in many places, it's Los ...
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WE NEED NEPO BABIES. HERE’S WHY.
The pejorative label “Nepo baby” came into sharper focus late last year thanks to an exhaustive New York magazine package that traced the advantageous lineage of entertainers with the academic zeal of...
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DAN KLUG FINDS THE FUNDAMENTAL SOUND OF THE DEAD WITH LO-FI COVERS ALBUM
For Dan Klug's project The Fundamental Sound, it's all about simplicity. On his newly released album, "Lofi Grateful Dead," he played just drums, bass and a Wurlitzer electric piano and kept the produ...
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PROLIFIC DAVID GANS TALKS DAILY LIVESTREAM, UPCOMING GRATEFUL DEAD BOOK AND POST-GARCIA DEAD BANDS
Playing livestreams can be an obstacle for musicians accustomed to immediate, in-person feedback. For David Gans, the singer-songwriter-guitarist, author and radio host, it's been less of a challenge....
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NEVER TRUST A PRANKSTER: KEN BABBS SHARES HIS PSYCHEDELIC ADVENTURES WITH KEN KESEY AND THE DEAD IN ‘CRONIES’
The beatniks and hippies made indelible marks on American life. But what about the unnamed cohort in between, those too young to be contemporaries of Kerouac but too old to be driving the Summer of Lo...
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OWSLEY STANLEY FOUNDATION WORKS TO PRESERVE THE SOUND AND LEGACY OF ‘BEAR’
Owsley "Bear" Stanley, the recording engineer, architect of the Grateful Dead's famed Wall of Sound and renowned LSD chemist, left behind more than 1,300 concert soundboard tapes when he died in 2011....
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FOR SUSANA MILLMAN, GRATEFUL DEAD PHOTOS ARE FAMILY PHOTOS
Musicians, whether they're performing on stage or living their lives off it, often view photographers as intrusive, annoying or a necessary evil of the industry, or some uneasy combination of all thre...
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DAN HORNE OF CIRCLES AROUND THE SUN TAKES A SOLO SPIN ON HIS ‘MOTORCYCLE’
Dan Horne is stepping out, or more accurately, hitting the open road on his proverbial motorcycle. Having focused his career to this point on production for renowned artists like Cass McCombs and ense...
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JERRY GARCIA & THE GRATEFUL DEAD: AN APPRECIATION
My earliest memories of the Grateful Dead are me being confused as to why people loved them so much. I didn't understand why, when I walked into a record store in Old Forge, Pa., on Aug. 9, 1995, the ...
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‘SPIRIT’ TAKES JERRY GARCIA’S GOSPEL TUNES TO CHURCH
One of the greatest gifts Jerry Gacria continues to give to generations of music fans is an entry point into music they might not have discovered on their own. Old-timey folk, bluegrass, jazz -- a sim...
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