If told by their music teacher they couldn’t keep a beat, many young drummers might set down their sticks and move on. Bill Kreutzmann, however, kept right on drumming. “That very day I got on my ...

“[Robert] Hunter agreed to write for the ensemble,” said the former Grateful Dead drummer. “When you get Hunter’s attention and he pulls himself away for two or three weeks you do it.” Hunter is the ...

It's been thirteen years since the passing of the iconic Grateful Dead guitarist and vocalist, Jerry Garcia. Since that time, the remaining principal Grateful Dead members have all found the means to ...

For nearly four decades now, percussionist extraordinaire and Rhythm Devils' cofounder Mickey Hart has employed a meter he uses for all his musical endeavors. "Anything that I do has to go into the ...

Grateful Dead drummer and percussionist Mickey Hart will launch a 20 city tour this summer including appearances at many of the nation's premiere music festivals. The outing comes on the heels of the ...

“Never play cards with a guy named Doc, never eat at a place called Mom’s,” Nelson Algren once wrote, but if he had heard the Lafayette Rhythm Devils, he would’ve added “and always dance to an ...