Grateful dead

Plus the Grateful Dead, Altın Gün, Laura Nyro and Sparks

Nirvana, Paul McCartney, Amy Winehouse, Altın Gün, Sly Stone, Grateful Dead, The Jam, Will Sergeant, Rodney Crowell, Sparks, Rodrigo Amarante, Lump, Jakob Dylan and PJ Harvey

He also worked with Harry Nilsson, Carly Simon and the Grateful Dead

Includes Björk, Michael Head, Michael Chapman, Michael Lau, Margo Price, Four Tet, Grateful Dead, Funkadelic and much more

Includes LCD Soundsystem, Grizzly Bear, Deslondes, James Elkington, Grateful Dead, War On Drugs, Floating Points, Jeff Tweedy etc

David Gilmour, Grateful Dead, Bob Dylan, Killing Joke, Led Zeppelin, Fleetwood Mac and more...

James also discusses snorkelling with the Grateful Dead in the new Uncut

The new issue of Uncut (Take 183, dated August 2012) features a ‘first listen’ to Animal Collective’s new album, Centipede Hz – so in this week’s archive feature, we revisit the band in São Paulo in 2009, just after the release of their acclaimed Merriweather Post Pavilion. Stephen Troussé heads to Brazil to talk Christina Aguilera, musique concrète and the Grateful Dead… –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Not quite as long a playlist as usual this week, chiefly because Number Nine here – The Grateful Dead live at “Winterland 1973” – is a box set of nine CDs, and we played the first three, comprising the entire set from November 9, straight through yesterday. November 10 and 11 to come in the next couple of days, if my colleagues will let me get away with it, then there’s a 3CD set from around the time of “Terrapin Station” to have a go at, too.

This week's playlist, then. Still no sign of the complete Bob Dylan album, I'm afraid, though compensation of sorts comes from The Grateful Dead's "Rocking The Cradle", which proves that their 1978 shows by the pyramids in Egypt weren't quite as shabby as myth has suggested. "Fire On The Mountain" and "Shakedown Street", in particular, are strong enough to make me want to re-evaluate that late '70s studio stuff.