San Francisco-based band Grateful Dead released their fifth album “American Beauty” in 1970, kicking off a decade of peasant blouses with protests, bell-bottom pants with bombings and godfathers with ...

For newcomers, The Grateful Dead's sprawling catalog can be intimidating. But a pair of 1970s releases offer a way in for non-Deadheads.

Five albums into what was shaping up to be a commercially challenged — and progressively more debt-ridden — career, the Grateful Dead finally hit paydirt with 1970's Workingman's Dead, which gave them ...

60 years after the Grateful Dead emerged to the eyes of the world from San Francisco’s countercultural revolution, their legacy lives on through generations of successors carrying their musical mantle ...