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Today, with Rhinos surprise release of From The Mars Hotel: The Angels Share, the Grateful Dead vaults have once again been opened. Featuring 16 newly unearthed session recordings, the digital collection brings listeners directly into San Franciscos Coast Recorders during the spring of 1974, revealing the bands real-time process as they crafted such eternal staples as "Scarlet Begonias," "Ship Of Fools," "China Doll," "U.S. Blues," "Unbroken Chain" and mor...

50 years ago, the Grateful Dead were cooking with gas. It was spring 1974, the band had successfully emerged from a series of hectic, harrowing times, and would soon follow their transformative Wake Of The Flood with the second acclaimed album release on their very own Grateful Dead Records: From The Mars Hotel.

Photo Credit: Richie Pechner Trailing success, spring 1974 was a promising time for the Grateful Dead. After interior tribulations, the ensemble emerged

Rosie McGee’s new book has been over five decades in the making. As she writes in My Grateful Dead Photos and How I Came to Take Them, “I first met the

The follow-up to the breakthrough 'The Real Thing.'

American alternative-rock band, The Breeders, was formed in 1989 by Kim Deal of Pixies and Tanya Donelly of Throwing Muses. Thought the years the group changed its lineup, with Kim Deal being the only standard member. Their first album came out in 1990 under the name Pod. It failed to achieve any commercial success

The follow-up to the breakthrough 'The Real Thing.'

The follow-up to the breakthrough 'The Real Thing.'

First-ever vinyl outing for the jazz auteur’s astonishing, originally shelved 1970 album. Review by Kieron Tyler

Every time Hughes got in front of an audience, no matter how small, he sang as if he were...