Lesh was one of the longest-surviving members of the band that came to define the acid rock sound emanating from San ...

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The Grateful Dead played two massive concerts in northern Vermont in the mid-1990s, drawing more than 150,000 ticket holders ...

JD McPherson will take you on an eclectic sonic journey with 'Nite Owls.' Exploring surf, rockabilly and old time rock 'n' ...

Bob Marley's grandson, Skip Marley, sits down with Cosmopolitan exclusively to discuss his new single, "Close," and how he carries his family's musical legacy.

One of the first rock bassists whose instrument regularly took a lead role, he also had a hand in writing some of the band’s ...

Phil Lesh, a classically trained violinist and jazz trumpeter who found his true calling reinventing the role of rock bass ...

Lesh took violin lessons in third grade, then learned the trumpet, becoming second chair in the Oakland Symphony while still in his teens. But he was driving a mail truck and working as a sound ...

Armed with a cheap four-string instrument his girlfriend bought him, Lesh sat down for a seven-hour lesson with Garcia, ...