Police in Southaven, Mississippi apprehended Troy Goode on July 18 outside the BankPlus Amphitheater before the Widespread Panic show there because he allegedly was acting "erratically." Goode was taken to Baptist Memorial Hospital, where he died two hours later.
Summer festival and tour season is going strong. Our list of tours includes the Grateful Dead, Phish, Wiz Khalifa and Fall Out Boy, Willie Nelson, 311, Slightly Stoopid and Dirty Heads, Dave Matthews Band, U2, Widespread Panic and more.
The first episode of Dennis Leary's new series on FX hit the charts with a bullet. In "Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll," Leary plays washed-up musician Johnny Rock. After years of debauchery, he's trying to get his career back on track.
Twenty years later, Bill Clinton has regrets. One of them is backing the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994. “I signed a bill that made the problem worse,” the ex-prez stated at the NAACP convention in Philadelphia.
Former Yankee Joe Pepitone reminisces about the time he turned his '60s teammate Mickey Mantle on to pot.
Twenty years ago, Slightly Stoopid was born out of the ashes of Sublime shortly before frontman Brad Nowell died of a drug overdose in 1996. "The Prophet," a song Nowell worked on with Stoopid's Miles Doughty, has popped up on their new album. Watch the video.
Fare Thee Well - the boisterous three-day celebration of all things Grateful Dead held in Chicago this past weekend - apparently went well for weed smokers. Only one arrest was made and two other tickets were written for possessing less than 15 grams of pot.
While hardcore Deadheads massed in Chicago for the supposed final Grateful Dead shows at Soldier Field this past weekend, the rest of us were home taking in the concerts via simulcast and Sirius radio. A Deadhead is a Deadhead, no matter where you are.
