LOS ANGELES (AP) — Bob Weir, the guitarist and singer who as an essential member of the Grateful Dead helped found the sound of the San Francisco counterculture of the 1960s and kept it alive through ...

On New Year’s Eve 1963, a 16-year-old Bob Weir heard the plucking of a banjo off in the distance. The teenager followed the sound down a Palo Alto street to a music shop where Jerry Garcia was playing ...

Bob Weir, the guitarist and songwriter who was a founding member of the popular and massively influential American rock band the Grateful Dead, has died. According to a statement from his family ...

Bob Weir was the everyman at the heart of the Grateful Dead, the one who kept the band’s feet on the ground through their farthest-reaching explorations. In the first 30 years of the band’s existence, ...

Bob Weir, the guitarist and founding member of the Grateful Dead, has died, according to a statement from his family. He was 78. Weir was diagnosed with cancer in July and began treatment just weeks ...

His songwriting and rhythm guitar playing helped shape the San Francisco band’s sound as it became an American institution. By Ben Sisario and Mark Walker Bob Weir, the guitarist and songwriter who ...

Each episode of the podcast will include guests from the fourth season — banished or “murdered” players from behind the castle walls — who will share insight into the season and what viewers didn’t ...

The legend of the perm. Bob Ross didn’t always have his iconic hairdo, resurfaced photos of the famous painter reveal. The black-and-white images show a clean-shaven Ross with straight hair, years ...

For over a century, Cain’s Ballroom has been more than a music venue. To musicians, historians and fans, it is a living archive of sound — a place where Western swing took flight, Red Dirt music found ...

Willie Nelson, and specifically his life on the road, is the focus of a new opus profile in The New Yorker. The highlights are many, but Bob Dylan’s attempt to explain the appeal of Nelson stands ...

Joe Lonsdale hopes his investment in AI-for-landscaping startup Bobyard could help lower construction costs, a key challenge in the U.S. The San Francisco startup, whose name is a nod to cartoon ...