“America’s Dead,” a new 10-episode podcast about the enduring legacy of the Grateful Dead and the band’s profound effect on American consciousness, was released today. The limited seri…
The limited series, produced byRadio, is hosted by Grammy-winning filmmaker and producer Emmett Malloy and takes listeners on an improvisational journey through a diverse range of conversations, with the intent of understanding why the Dead is more popular and resonant now than ever.
The podcast features interviews with other musicians like jazz saxophonist Brandford Marsalis , Mac DeMarco, members of the band Animal Collective and Lila Downs, although the series doesn’t focus solely on contemporary musicians and how they were inspired by the Dead’s repertoire.
“This is a podcast about the Grateful Dead – but even more than that, it’s about the community that made the Dead who they are… a truly American experiment,” Malloy says. In another episode, Malloy interviews Paul Stamets, a mycologist with a large following in the psychedelic community. He fell in love with the Grateful Dead’s music when he lived in a remote cabin in the Cascades in Washington state, and says that the Dead were proficient in micro-dosing psychedelic mushrooms before it was a trending topic. During this time in the mountains, Stamets was tripping on LSD and psilocybin and listening to the Dead a great deal.
Malloy also interviews the artist Steve Powers, known as ESPO, about the Dead’s creation of a visual language through symbols and iconography like the “steal your face” logo. The creators of the clothing brand Online Ceramics also speak about their popular graphics based on the preeminent emblems of the Dead that are branded on American fashion and culture. Even Lebron James and Old Navy rep the Dead’s marching bears.
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