Grateful Dead's legendary Wall of Sound system, which redefined concert audio, is chronicled in Brian Anderson's new book 'Loud and Clear.

How does a band ensure that it sounds like the most pristine version of itself, no matter where the show takes place or where ...

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 ambitious feats of live sound ...

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 ...

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 ...

Pulitzer-winning author Brian Anderson has written a new book, "Loud and Clear: The Grateful Dead's Wall of Sound and the Quest for Audio Perfection." Anderson joined Thursday's WGN Morning News ...

This summer, when the bass drops clean and delay-free at Lollapalooza or some other sweaty festival field, spare a thought for the Grateful Dead. You have them to thank, whether you have a skull and ...

Grateful Dead fandom invites—and thrives on—obsession. Though the Dead’s jam-band sound is undoubtedly groovy, many of its songs concern heavy themes such as life and death.