Brian Anderson’s ‘Loud and Clear’ captures the strenuous work, psychedelic vision and lasting influence of the band’s most audacious sound-system experiment. By Noah Eckstein When journalist Brian ...

Brian Anderson’s “Loud and Clear: The Grateful Dead’s Wall of Sound and the Quest for Audio Perfection,” which hit shelves last week, offers the first definitive chronicle of one of rock’s most ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. The live experience of the Grateful Dead was ...

When journalist Brian Anderson acquired a crumbling speaker monitor from the Grateful Dead’s legendary 1974 Wall of Sound via a Sotheby’s auction, it wasn’t just memorabilia he was after. The former ...