And just like their decades of musical output, the Grateful Dead are unbeaten when it comes to merch. From the Stealie skull logo to Bertha to the dancing bears, the Grateful Dead have enough ...

Dead and Company will perform a trio of concerts in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park this August in celebration of the Grateful Dead’s 60th anniversary. “We have some really big news,” San ...

The Grateful Dead will celebrate their 60th anniversary this year not only with a massive 60-disc live collection but also with a just-announced Best Of compilation. Fittingly titled Gratest Hits ...

Filming the Grateful Dead’s MTV-era music video for "Hell in a Bucket" was one long, strange trip. Len Dell’Amico, the band’s "film and video guy," has written a new memoir, "Friend of the ...

But Grateful Dead imagery — the Skulls & Roses, the Dancing Bears, the “Invisible Pimp” of Shakedown Street — now adorns a wide-array of authorized products, all of them appealing choices ...

The first all-new visual to appear in the opening-night show came with the third number, “Bertha,” which featured a wall of dancing cartoon bears — part of the Dead’s traditional animated ...

The band – a Grateful Dead offshoot that includes original ... “Bertha,” when a grid of the band’s colorful Dancing Bears kept zooming in before morphing into multicolor pixels that ...

Dead & Company launched their 2025 Las Vegas Sphere residency last night, carrying over several songs from their 2024 residency while also adding a live debut and new visual tricks to their set.

In typical Grateful Dead fashion, Grateful Dead have compiled 60 hours’ worth of live albums to celebrate their 60th anniversary with a 60xCD box set. Out May 30, Enjoying the Ride comprises ...

As the Grateful Dead morphed from an eccentric folk-blues group into an eclectic jam juggernaut, the band adopted an idiosyncratic approach to improvisation they would then hone over three decades.