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The Grateful Dead

  • Blogs

    April 18, 2012

    Live: Furthur Stoke The Embers Of The Grateful Dead's Legacy At The Beacon

    Furthur Beacon Theater Tuesday, April 17 Better than: String Cheese Incident. In the ongoing tussle between Deadheads and straights, the straights seem to have won—definitely this battle, and possibly the War. A handful of vendors, selling pot paraphernalia and Steal Your Face blankets, ling ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 14, 2011

    This Week's Specials: Beer Bars, Extraordinary Cooking Tricks, Neue Cuisine

    And now, a look back at what was on the menu here at Fork in the Road this week. Bottoms up... it's Friday!​ We weighed in on that ever-important question: how much should you tip? We rounded up Our 10 Best Beer Bars in the city. The Extraordinary Cookbook author Stefan Gates explained how ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 10, 2011

    How About Some Steal Your Face Red Blend Wine to Drink With Your Cherry Garcia Ice Cream?

    If you happened to miss the Village Voice-sponsored wine tasting/Grateful Dead cover band event Wine Unplugged at this year's Atlantic City Food & Wine Festival, you can console yourself with the next best thing: a bottle of the just-released Grateful Dead "Steal Your Face Red Blend" wine.

  • Film

    July 13, 2011

    Born Again, Then Turned Against in Mega-Church Satire Salvation Boulevard

    If you happened to miss the Village Voice-sponsored wine tasting/Grateful Dead cover band event Wine Unplugged at this year's Atlantic City Food & Wine Festival, you can console yourself with the next best thing: a bottle of the just-released Grateful Dead "Steal Your Face Red Blend" wine.

  • Voice Choices

    June 29, 2011

    'Celebrate Brooklyn: Los Lobos+Hello Seahorse!+Zigmat'

    If you happened to miss the Village Voice-sponsored wine tasting/Grateful Dead cover band event Wine Unplugged at this year's Atlantic City Food & Wine Festival, you can console yourself with the next best thing: a bottle of the just-released Grateful Dead "Steal Your Face Red Blend" wine.

  • Voice Choices

    June 22, 2011

    Reid Genauer+Jason Crosby

    If you happened to miss the Village Voice-sponsored wine tasting/Grateful Dead cover band event Wine Unplugged at this year's Atlantic City Food & Wine Festival, you can console yourself with the next best thing: a bottle of the just-released Grateful Dead "Steal Your Face Red Blend" wine.

  • Blogs

    May 18, 2011

    Q&A: Rock 'N' Roll High School Director Allan Arkush Looks Back (Plus Exclusive Photos)

    Joey Ramone would have been 60 years old on May 19. This week, in celebration of the birthday of the Queens-born gone-too-soon punk legend, Sound of the City will run a series of features on his life and his legacy. Bruce Frankel/courtesy Allan Arkush​ Allan Arkush has executive produced a bu ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    May 11, 2011

    7 Walkers

    Joey Ramone would have been 60 years old on May 19. This week, in celebration of the birthday of the Queens-born gone-too-soon punk legend, Sound of the City will run a series of features on his life and his legacy. Bruce Frankel/courtesy Allan Arkush​ Allan Arkush has executive produced a bu ... More >>

  • Film

    March 16, 2011

    The Music Never Stopped: Clearly the Product of Too Much Time in Development Hell

    Joey Ramone would have been 60 years old on May 19. This week, in celebration of the birthday of the Queens-born gone-too-soon punk legend, Sound of the City will run a series of features on his life and his legacy. Bruce Frankel/courtesy Allan Arkush​ Allan Arkush has executive produced a bu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 21, 2010

    Why Was the Empire State Building Tie-Dye?

    Via​Last year, in celebration of a Grateful Dead exhibit at the NY Historical Society, the Empire State Building was lit up in tie-dye colors, exciting hippies everywhere. This weekend, the colors went wild again (pictured above) but no one can seem to agree on why. Either it's a "private ligh ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    November 10, 2010

    HERE COMES THE SUN

    Delorean brings Barcelona to NYC

  • Blogs

    October 12, 2010

    Download Built To Spill's Highline Ballroom Set Last Week, Including A Grateful Dead Cover (?)

    ​Hearing the crowd's complex mixture of excitement, bewilderment, and trepidation when Built to Spill frontman Doug Martsch announces "This is a Grateful Dead song" is a wonderful thing, but longtime fans of the spectacularly bearded, voluminously noodle-y indie-guitar giants will hardly be su ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 24, 2010

    In the Wake of Altamont: Who Hired the Hell's Angels?

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. December 18, 1969, Vol. XIV, No. 62 Viewing the Remains of a Mean Saturday by Grover Lewis SAN FRANCISCO -- On the morning of December 10, a scattering of friends and kin gathered in a foggy cemetery in the bedroom commuter community o ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    August 18, 2010

    'Rockin' the River Cruises Presents Donna the Buffalo'

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. December 18, 1969, Vol. XIV, No. 62 Viewing the Remains of a Mean Saturday by Grover Lewis SAN FRANCISCO -- On the morning of December 10, a scattering of friends and kin gathered in a foggy cemetery in the bedroom commuter community o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 28, 2010

    Bill Graham Fills Central Park with San Francisco Groovy

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. May 9, 1968, Vol. XIII, No. 30 East is West -- A Ritual of Energy by Don McNeill Sunday the San Francisco sound came out in New York. Not that the past performances of the Grateful Dead or the Jefferson Airplane have been in any way a ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    April 20, 2010

    ELVIS IS IN THE PALACE

    What's so funny 'bout bluegrass? Don't answer that.

  • Blogs

    March 13, 2010

    Things to do this weekend for (mostly) free

    ​The National Weather Service says it's pretty much definitely going to rain all weekend, so indoors is good. Go see the Wizard of Oz today and tomorrow at the Film Forum (double feature, with Captains Courageous)

  • Voice Choices

    March 2, 2010

    STILL TRUCKIN'

    The hippies are coming!

  • Blogs

    February 19, 2010

    Hippies, Cops, and Puerto Ricans Battle for Tompkins Square Park

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. June 8, 1967, Vol. XII, No. 34 The Youthquake and The Shook-Up Park By Don McNeill The Ukrainians had had enough. Hare Krishna may be a song of love for the Lord Krishna, but it's a little esoteric for a Ukrainian grandmother who want ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    February 16, 2010

    Furthur

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. June 8, 1967, Vol. XII, No. 34 The Youthquake and The Shook-Up Park By Don McNeill The Ukrainians had had enough. Hare Krishna may be a song of love for the Lord Krishna, but it's a little esoteric for a Ukrainian grandmother who want ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 9, 2010

    The Grateful Dead: Trying to Figure Out this Odd SF Rock Band

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. April 13, 1967, Vol. XII, No. 26 Albumin By Richard Goldstein A good album, like those long lasting cold remedies, is filled with tiny time capsules which burst open at their own speed. Cuts that astound at first fade as subtle ballads ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 16, 2009

    Oh Wow: Empire State Building Goes "Tie-Dye" for Grateful Dead Monday

    ​Well, after they lit it up for Red China, this was bound to follow: To celebrate the charity opening of The Grateful Dead: Now Playing at the New-York Historical Society and the Grateful Dead Archive, the lights of the Empire State Building will go "psychedelic tie-dye" on Monday. We wonder i ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    October 13, 2009

    Yonder Mountain String Band+Railroad Earth+Danny Barnes

    ​Well, after they lit it up for Red China, this was bound to follow: To celebrate the charity opening of The Grateful Dead: Now Playing at the New-York Historical Society and the Grateful Dead Archive, the lights of the Empire State Building will go "psychedelic tie-dye" on Monday. We wonder i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 12, 2009

    Ribs and Aging Rock Stars at Virgil's Tonight

    Neato Coolville/flickr​This evening, Virgil's will be holding Ribstock in conjunction with the Heroes of Woodstock concert taking place at the Nokia Theater. The barbecue restaurant is planning to give away about 200 racks to the general public, as well as the chance to see some of the show's ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 31, 2009

    Frivolous Friday: The Grateful Dead, Encapsulated in One Achewood Panel

    ​We're in Totally Random mode around here today, preparing to embark tonight for the All Points West festivities, and I thus feel emboldened to revisit, apropos of absolutely nothing, the mighty Achewood's unforgettable Grateful Dead cartoon, i.e. the best piece of music criticism in the last ... More >>

  • Music

    April 29, 2009

    More Otherworldly Psych-Rock Investigations with Akron/Family

    ​We're in Totally Random mode around here today, preparing to embark tonight for the All Points West festivities, and I thus feel emboldened to revisit, apropos of absolutely nothing, the mighty Achewood's unforgettable Grateful Dead cartoon, i.e. the best piece of music criticism in the last ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 29, 2009

    SOTC's Favorite Dead Song Is No Dead Songs At All

    David AtlasPerhaps all the angry Grateful Dead crazies who complained so bitterly about SOTC's past Grateful Dead coverage ("I hope you get a vial poured on your head asswipe village scenester dickwad, suck a d bitch!") might instead enjoy Slate's typography of Dead fandom, subhedded "What your favo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 3, 2009

    Week in Review: Boom! Woah, What Was That? You Transcend.

    In the week we got ourselves a whole new look, we celebrated by staring David Lynch and Kate Moss directly in their awesome, newly expansive faces. This was a bookish week at SOTC: Brian Evenson soundtracked his novel, Last Days, Jonathan Lethem reintroduced L.J. Davis and his walls of mucus in P ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 6, 2009

    Live: My Morning Jacket at Madison Square Garden, With MP3s

    Download My Morning Jacket's entire New Year's Eve show here. My Morning Jacket Madison Square Garden December 31, 2008 So My Morning Jacket isn't the new Grateful Dead. That was Phish. Except that Phish wasn't half as good as the Grateful Dead and only had about half a dozen great songs ("Wolfm ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 22, 2007

    Provincializm #16: Thank-Rock Playlist

    Download My Morning Jacket's entire New Year's Eve show here. My Morning Jacket Madison Square Garden December 31, 2008 So My Morning Jacket isn't the new Grateful Dead. That was Phish. Except that Phish wasn't half as good as the Grateful Dead and only had about half a dozen great songs ("Wolfm ... More >>

  • Music

    November 20, 2007

    The Old, Weird America Marches Onward

    Another great folk-music box targets everyday people who might even still be alive

  • Blogs

    October 19, 2007

    CMJ: Tee Pee Records Had A Party, 10.18.07

    Another great folk-music box targets everyday people who might even still be alive

  • Music

    July 25, 2006

    Subdued Psych-Rockers Can Still Cause Hearing Loss

    Another great folk-music box targets everyday people who might even still be alive

  • Music

    May 9, 2006

    Anarchy Artifacts

    Crass contemplated revolution, broke up instead

  • Music

    November 29, 2005

    Pavlov's Dogshit

    Buffalo-from jam bland soundtrack teens' night out

  • Music

    July 19, 2005

    Brooklynites Dish Up Fast Food That Sticks to the Ribs

    Buffalo-from jam bland soundtrack teens' night out

  • Music

    April 26, 2005

    Democracy Now

    Annual collaborative fest puts the 'O' back in countronica

  • Music

    April 19, 2005

    The Big Chill

    EZT shuts down, courts lag behind, WMG gets desperate

  • Books

    April 12, 2005

    Dead Bassist Recounts the Surreal Musicality of a Long, Strange Trip

    EZT shuts down, courts lag behind, WMG gets desperate

  • News

    August 17, 2004

    Rebel Yells

    Firing up Tompkins Square's radical roots

  • News

    September 24, 2002

    Jammed for All Time

    The Improvisational Rock Scene Isn't Just for Hippies Anymore

  • Film

    April 24, 2001

    Heads Shot

    The Improvisational Rock Scene Isn't Just for Hippies Anymore

  • Music

    October 17, 2000

    Salmon, String Cheese, and Jam

    Bluegrass Pizza: Like Those Hippies Out in Colorado Do

  • Music

    April 4, 2000

    Bearfoot in the Head

    Bluegrass Pizza: Like Those Hippies Out in Colorado Do

  • Long Island Voice

    November 30, 1999

    Dead is God

    Bluegrass Pizza: Like Those Hippies Out in Colorado Do

  • Long Island Voice

    November 16, 1999

    Dead or alive

    Bluegrass Pizza: Like Those Hippies Out in Colorado Do

  • Dining

    July 13, 1999

    East Village Other

    Bluegrass Pizza: Like Those Hippies Out in Colorado Do

  • News

    March 16, 1999

    Machine Age

    Bluegrass Pizza: Like Those Hippies Out in Colorado Do

  • Books

    December 1, 1998

    Days of the Dead

    Bluegrass Pizza: Like Those Hippies Out in Colorado Do

  • Music

    October 28, 1997

    Look Who Stopped Sucking!

    Bluegrass Pizza: Like Those Hippies Out in Colorado Do

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