Longtime RatDog bassist Robin Sylvester passed away today. The news was first announced by former RatDog guitarist Mark Karan and later confirmed to Relix and Jambands.com. In a post Karan said, “I ...

“I was a Grateful Dead fan before there was a term ‘Deadhead,'” says Mark Karan, longtime lead guitarist of RatDog. “My friends and I used to go see them at Golden Gate Park and Winterland in the late ...

Bob Weir has had quite an eventful 12 months. After an infamous onstage fumble last spring and the surprising news that his primary project Furthur would take a hiatus for most of 2014, the Grateful ...

From young folkie to rock legend, from an important spoke in the Grateful Dead wheel to leader of his own band, vocalist-guitarist Bob Weir continues to follow his often contrarian visions with RatDog ...

The Bob Weir & RatDog concert scheduled for Sunday, August 31, 2014 at Ravinia (Green Bay and Lake-Cook roads, Highland Park) has been canceled. Dwight Yoakam and The Devil Makes Three were also ...

The Grateful Dead retain a cultural legacy because of their fans as much as the band itself. The Dead allowed fans to tape shows. The Dead pioneered the practice of selling concert tickets via mail ...

Groove Grass, the two-day music festival making its debut at Sunlight Mountain Resort in July, may not be intended as a replacement for the defunct Aspen Harmony Festival. But Groove Grass, the ...

This March 16, 2014 file photo shows Grateful Dead alumni Bob Weir and his band, Ratdog, performing in Atlanta. Weir is canceling all of the tour dates he had planned through January 2015. The ...

As the clock struck 10am and Dyson’s first shift in almost exactly twelve months commenced, he at first admitted he was “a little rusty on my lonesome,” referring to the fact that partner-in-crime ...

"It's impossible to know what we're going to be doing on any given night," former Grateful Dead guitarist Bob Weir says about his current band, Ratdog. Some things obviously never change. Like the ...

Bob Weir performs with his group RatDog at the Kirby Center on Tuesday night. Weir is one of the founding members of the Grateful Dead. RatDog continues its tour tonight, performing at the New Jersey ...

Grateful Dead alum Bob Weir pays tribute to his former band’s past and advances his own musical creations with his new ensemble, Ratdog, playing Hartford’s Webster Theatre Wednesday. Weir, a founding ...