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December 12, 2020 Album Reviews

Music Reviews: Two Releases Celebrate Grateful Dead’s ‘American Beauty,’ Plus Duke Robillard and Jesse Colin Young

To mark the 50th anniversary of a Dead classic, the group’s label has issued a digital-only collection of demos and outtakes and a remastered CD edition that adds a contemporaneous concert.

August 1, 2019 Album Reviews

A Gargantuan Box Set Celebrates 1969’s Legendary Woodstock Festival

Fifty years after rock’s most famous festival, a giant box set delivers just about everything but the mud, rain, and traffic jams.

June 26, 2019 Album Reviews

The Rolling Stones Pull Another One from the Vaults

The Rolling Stones release a 1998 German concert on CD and Blu-ray. Plus, expanded versions of vintage albums from the Grateful Dead and Procol Harum.

May 26, 2017 Album Reviews

Is This the Best Grateful Dead Concert Ever?

Maybe, though it’s taken forever for a remastered soundboard recording to be released.

February 13, 2017 Album Reviews

Revisiting the Dead’s Debut, and More

The rap on the Grateful Dead’s eponymous 1967 debut album—which the group mostly recorded in just four days—is that they

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May 17, 2016 Album Reviews

The Grateful Dead in Their Prime

Notwithstanding reunions by surviving members, the Dead have been dead since 1995, when a heart attack killed guitarist Jerry Garcia.

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