grateful dead

The Grateful Dead worked with the Dogfish Head Craft Brewery on a new beer called "American Beauty." It's a "bold pale ale," which will include granola. The beer will be available throughout Dogfish Head's 27-state distribution network within a few weeks.

The two incidents may be unrelated, but five days after Bob Weir collapsed onstage during his band Furthur's set in Port Chester, N.Y., the group has canceled its headlining set at the BottleRock Napa Valley Festival in Napa, Calif. They were set to perform on May 9.

It may feel like a struggle to get up off the couch and stand in line for all those sales the day after Thanksgiving -- but the folks behind Record Store Day are working overtime to lure you out to your local music retailer with a bevy of Black Friday exclusives.

If you need a pick-me-up today for a few minutes at your desk, we've got just the thing. Recorded at the El Rey in Los Angeles, Chris Robinson covering "Sugaree". Enjoy!

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Owsley "Bear" Stanley, a 1960s counterculture figure who flooded the flower power scene with LSD and was an early benefactor of the Grateful Dead, died in a car crash in his adopted home country of Australia on Sunday, his family said. He was 76.