Podcaster Jake Brennan told a chilling-amazing story in his Dead and Gone podcast about the unusual spate of missing and murdered fans of the Grateful Dead, better known as Deadheads, the Daily Beast reports. Brennan names several out of numerous cases of murders and disappearances, plenty unresolved to his day, and offers a possible explanation - "Grateful Dead... live and preach this super anti-authority lifestyle, even after they became an institution themselves. Being a Deadhead and traveling on the road following the band was all about living outside of the bounds of society, and there's a lawlessness that goes along with that. It's ultimately part of what contributed to this environment of vulnerability where people went missing and lost their lives".

Nike has announced a new line of sneakers in collaboration with Grateful Dead. The Nike SB Dunk Low Grateful Dead cost $110 and come in three different colors - orange, green and yellow, Kicks on Fire reports. The sneakers take their inspiration from the band’s iconic dancing bears, and they feature faux-fur and suede exterior lining, a frayed Nike Swoosh mimicking the bears’ collars, and a circular imagine of the bear on the tongue. Inside the shoes are a bear-adorned slip, a sockliner with the Steal Your Face skull printed on the underside, and a small zipper pouch on the inner tongue for stashing weed.

There are over 14,500 Grateful Dead live concert recordings on Archive.org available for streaming for free. They can be filtered by year, by taper, by type of recording, by date added, or searched for specific songs, albums, venues, recording studios... New recordings are being added every week.

Robert Hunter was a poet and musician who wrote many of the Grateful Dead’s lyrics, has released a couple of solo albums in the mid-’70s and co-wrote two songs for Bob Dylan. In the early 1960s, Hunter met and befriended Jerry Garcia, Hunter composed his first lyrics for the Grateful Dead on acid when he […]