Subject: The Grateful Dead

• A KC Councilman wants $30 million for Kemper Arena. What’s reality got to do with it?

  March 26, 2009

• Dark Wednesday

  April 12, 2006

• Monday Music Junkie: Exclusive Steinski, new Wu-Tang & Ghostface, Springsteen Covers and More

  October 22, 2007

• Concert Review: Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, Blitzen Trapper

  November 6, 2008

• The Top 10 Reissues of 2008

  It's time to rank the best of what went around and came around again. BILLY JOEL The Stranger (Columbia/Legacy) As punk and disco exploded, the Piano Man's deeply unhip 1978 breakthrough proved that top-shelf Broadway/Brill Building songwriting could still sell - and, occasionally, rock. "Scenes From an Italian Restaurant" and "Anthony's Song (Movin' Out)" remain priceless snapshots of Annie Hall-era NYC, the title track bares real teeth, and the Kenny Chesney fave "Only the Good Die Young" -

  December 19, 2008

• Bob Dylan and Phil Lesh

  July 6, 2000

• Black Dice

  September 19, 2002

• Phil Lesh & Friends / Vida Blue

  November 21, 2002

• Wayward Q&A: Crackin' Nuts with Michelle Markowitz of Davey's

  Michelle Markowitz is the owner and proprietor of Davey's Uptown Ramblers Club, a Midtown entertainment institution. From Alejandro Escovedo and Freedy Johnston to goth DJs and burlesque shows, this family-owned operation has continued to host diverse local and touring acts and pour stiff drinks through the digital music explosion, a literal building explosion and the threat of a light rail running past the front door. Yesterday, to the sounds of the Grateful Dead, Michelle and I talked about iP

  February 4, 2009

• Best Comeback

  October 7, 2004

• Gov't Mule

  February 10, 2005

• Concert Review: Blitzen Trapper, Alela Diane

  As the buildings turned Mass Street into a piercing cold wind tunnel, a crowd of Lawrencians took refuge inside the Jackpot Music Hall. Once inside, in the dim red bar light and the sweltering heat, that same crowd found themselves wishing they'd left their coats in the car. Alela Diane came on first, backed by a four-piece band: hairy dude on bass, cute girl singing harmonies, red-headed Greg Oden look-alike on drums, and Alela's dad wailing on mandolin and lead guitar. Alela Diane possesse

  March 11, 2009

• In the Kansas City reggae scene, SeedLove picks up where the Blue Riddim left off.

  January 22, 2009

• Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks

  October 30, 2008

• Blitzen Trapper

  Furr
  (Sub Pop)

  October 16, 2008

• Social Workers

  Lawrence's industrious Ants bring their latest Idea to fruition.

  June 7, 2007

• This Little Piggy

  An artist inks swine.

  November 27, 2003

• Rusted Root

  Monday, July 18, at the Beaumont Club.

  July 14, 2005

• Take a Trip

  Give thanks for Deadheads.

  November 25, 2004

• Trial by Fire

  Was Kafka's unfinished novel prophetic?

  August 5, 2004

• Bruce Hornsby

  Monday, August 2, at the Uptown Theater.

  July 29, 2004

• Grilled Cheese

  The String Cheese Incident refuses to melt under Big Business heat.

  July 29, 2004

• Walk This Way

  This Year's AIDS Walk

  April 29, 2004

• Dark Star Orchestra

  Friday, April 16, at the Blue Note in Columbia.

  April 15, 2004

• This Weeks Day-By-Day Picks

  February 26, 2004

• Secret Santanas

  Holidazed and confused? Consider this your stairway to shopping heaven.

  December 18, 2003

• Various Artists

  Mondo Beat 2: Masters of Percussion (Narada World/Virgin)

  April 24, 2003

• Reverend Horton Heat

  Thursday, May 15, at the Grand Emporium.

  May 15, 2003

• Sound Tribe Sector Nine

  Sunday, February 16, at the Granada.

  February 13, 2003

• Dark Star Orchestra

  Wednesday, February 12, at Liberty Hall.

  February 6, 2003

• Dirty Dozen Brass Band

  Friday, November 22, at the Bottleneck.

  November 21, 2002

• Jam Grass Festival

  Saturday, September 7, at Starlight Theatre.

  September 5, 2002

• Send in the Clones

  Fake Fest's bands trace classic-rock masterpieces.

  May 16, 2002

• Live and Dead

  Taboot and The Mason Chambers resurrect the dancing skeletons of El Torreon's hippie-haven past.

  February 7, 2002

• Rat Race

  Schwamp Rat keeps pace by agreeing to play at any hole in the wall.

  January 31, 2002

• Beachwood Aged

  Beachwood Sparks gives classic sounds a twangy, trippy twist.

  October 11, 2001

• Feat First

  A revitalized Little Feat hopes its new compilation will sell like Hotcakes.

  July 19, 2001

• Purple Reign

  Barney loves you, and kids love his Musical Castle.

  April 26, 2001

• Widespread Panic

  City Market -- Friday, July 14, 2000

  July 13, 2000

• Around Hear

  Beatles Tribute Night, Stand Against the Hand benefit, Tanka Ray, and The Blackwater

  July 13, 2000

• Fleck's appeal

  Jazz/bluegrass pioneer Béla Fleck explains how a musical prodigy immersed in radical styles learned to love the banjo.

  June 8, 2000

• THE DAYBIRDS

  TURNSTYLE

  February 10, 2000

• The Local Music Show, Will Matthews, & The sunshine Vandals

  February 10, 2000

• Back in Time

  May 14, 2009

• Cheech and Steve

  It's less than shocking to say that certain restaurants and foods cater to pot smokers. Without trying, Dorito's, Domino's and Cap'n Crunch have become part of the stereotypical image of getting high. But I'd be willing to bet that no major restaurant chain has courted stoners as actively as Denny's does in this new advertisement:They really don't leave much up to the imagination with "Steve the Unicorn." But just in case there's any doubt, on the Denny's bio page it created for each character,

  May 13, 2009

• Schwagstock 41 is this weekend, dudes.

  photo by Jerry JasparAt Camp Zoe​I remember when the city of Morrison, Colorado, banned Phish from performing in the mountain town for 10 years, thus barring the band from Red Rocks Amphitheater, because of the legions of patchouli-scented, dog-toting, brownie-selling hoards that descended upon the town and its limited resources in 1996.That's why I was surprised to hear that the deputy sheriff of Shannon County, Dewayne Skaggs, has very few negative things to say about Shwagstock, the summer

  July 29, 2009

• The New Familiars

  August 27, 2009

• Led + Dead

  October 15, 2009

• Tomorrow Night: Jonah Smith at Crosstown Station

  When Jonah Smith plays Crosstown Station tomorrow night, he's in a unique position. ​ First of all, he's playing between two cover acts (Jah Wheel and Trampled Under Foot, doing the Grateful Dead and Led Zeppelin, respectively -- although, to be fair, both acts have a slew of originals). Secondly, he's trying to do this whole tour as a fan-funded thing, much like the album in support of which he's touring, Lights On. Now, we've seen this before and considering most acts don't really have

  October 14, 2009

• Wayward Q&A: Interview with George Frayne (Commander Cody)

  Before Commander Cody became a household name for his saloon-stomping, country-rock jams in the '70s, the man behind the moniker had a career in art academia as George Frayne. In the late '60s Frayne was plying his MFA in sculpture toward teaching at the Wisconsin State University in Oshkosh when he decided to move to San Francisco in 1969 with members of his backing band to pursue music full-time. Later that same year, Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen would open for the Grateful Dead

  November 6, 2009