Grateful Dead rake in a big week on the Billboard charts, thanks to the reissue of its 1970 album "American Beauty," as well as its latest "Dave’s Picks" archival concert album. By Keith Caulfield ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Chiu is a freelance music writer based in New York. “They had just come off of Aoxomoxoa, which was a very costly record,” ...

San Francisco-based band Grateful Dead released their fifth album “American Beauty” in 1970, kicking off a decade of peasant blouses with protests, bell-bottom pants with bombings and godfathers with ...

CLICK HERE if you are having trouble viewing these photos on a mobile device. The Grateful Dead released two albums in 1970 — “Workingman’s Dead” and “American Beauty” — that changed the band’s ...

If it's true the Grateful Dead epitomize the counter culture of the Sixties, it's also true the iconic group embraced the following decade on its very own terms, at least at the outset of the period.

The Grateful Dead were not, by most people's definition, a band fit for the studio. To condense their songwriting and penchant for free flowing jams into the sort of sterile, structured environment ...

The Grateful Dead will mark the 50th anniversary of their American Beauty by releasing another “Angel’s Share,” a companion collection of never-before-heard demos, alternate mixes and outtakes from ...