Remembering Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay, ‘first lady of the Grateful Dead’
Known as “the first lady of the Grateful Dead,” she died of cancer on Nov. 2 in hospice care in Nashville at age 78.
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Inside the iconic Sweetwater Music Hall’s new life as a nonprofit arts organization
"We have the freedom to present artists that normally won’t get a show in this area."
Mill Valley Film Festival: Metallica fans get personal in new documentary
The film focuses on fans from around the world who embrace Metallica’s hard rock anthems and bombastic concerts as a kind of group therapy, an adrenaline-fueled communal experience that gives...
Famed drummer’s work in music, law inspires Bay Area-set rock novel
The protagonist of Greg Anton’s tale is Woody Harper, a gifted guitarist and songwriter who can’t seem to get out of his own way as he struggles.
New photo book captures the Grateful Dead’s formative years
In a word, Jim Marshall once said what it takes to become a successful rock photographer — trust.
Legendary Bay Area musician still creative after all these years
As the drummer for the legacy band Big Brother and the Holding Company, Dave Getz played on one of the greatest rock albums of all time, “Cheap Thrills,” a No....
New book examines what inspired the hippie movement, Summer of Love
“The Last Great Dream: How Bohemians Became Hippies and Created the Sixties,” a new book by Dennis McNally, explores the roots of counterculture that flowered in SF’s Haight-Ashbury in 1967.
Sausalito’s historic Record Plant may rock ‘n’ roll again soon
The legendary Record Plant has been sold to an investment group with plans to preserve and restore it, bringing back a more modern version of its former glory.
Bay Area author shows another side of Yoko Ono in new biography
West Marin author David Sheff has written a new biography.
Grateful Dead’s longtime videographer reflects on his ‘wild ride’ with Jerry Garcia
In “Friend of the Devil: My Wild Ride with Jerry Garcia and Grateful Dead” Len Dell’Amico describes the band’s concerts as “fundamentally a spiritual experience, more like going to church...