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Readers tell us how they became Deadheads (opens the original)
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During this year's Days Between — from Aug. 1 to 9 — NPR Music published a series of stories about what keeps drawing people to the Grateful Dead and how they plan to carry the band's legacy forward. Being a Grateful Dead fan has always been about a shared experience. And yet the reasons people become fans are as different as the number of people you ask. So we asked people to share their stories of how they became Deadheads. We received hundreds of responses. The stories Deadheads shared are te
The keepers of the Grateful Dead's history (opens the original)
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During this year's Days Between — from Aug. 1 to 9 — NPR Music is publishing a series of stories about what keeps drawing people to the Grateful Dead and how they plan to carry the band's legacy forward. Inside a climate-controlled facility located in a redwood forest just a few miles from the picturesque Central California coast sits a visual history of the life and times of the Grateful Dead. In 2008, a little over a decade after the formal, but by no means spiritual, end of the band, truckloa
For Grateful Dead devotees, the 'Days Between' honor the lessons the band taught (opens the original)
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Followers of the Grateful Dead call this week the Days Between - that is, the days between the anniversaries of the birth and death of guitarist Jerry Garcia. Musicians who have played with or followed in the footsteps of the Grateful Dead are among the many who observe. As part of a series from NPR Music about the Dead's legacy, Felix Contreras spoke with some of them. FELIX CONTRERAS, BYLINE: Some people are born Deadheads, and some have to find their way to the band. On paper, you'd assume th
What's next for the Grateful Dead's legacy? (opens the original)
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Death never stopped the Grateful Dead before. Since Jerry Garcia's death in 1995, a sprawling collection of musicians and fans across generations have kept the band's legacy alive in different ways. But without members Phil Lesh and Bob Weir, Deadheads are experiencing their first summer where there's no clear inheritor of the Grateful Dead's mantle. Where does the music, and the community, go from here? NPR Music resident Deadheads Felix Contreras and Isabella Gomez-Sarmiento did what the Dead
The best Latin music entries in the 2026 Tiny Desk Contest (opens the original)
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Thousands of independent artists submitted to this year's Tiny Desk contest with dreams of playing at NPR's office. The contest brought in entries from every genre imaginable. And this week on ALL THINGS CONSIDERED, we're highlighting some of the best. Here to share the best Latin entries is Felix Contreras, host of Tiny Desk and Alt.Latino. Hey, Felix. FELIX CONTRERAS, BYLINE: Hey, Juana. OK, so the first thing I want to talk about is this song called "Última Noche" by the band Thee Almighty Ma
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