Cathy Richardson: I think this band has always been about great songs and great singing. Even in all the different incarnations, Jefferson Airplane ... And we love all of our Bay Area friends ...

Phil Lesh, a founding member of the Grateful Dead whose electric bass playing came to define the psychedelic San Francisco sound, died Oct. 25.

Recorded just one month after their performance at Woodstock, this newly released archival album finds the band in fine, ...

Joni Mitchell might be a countercultural legend, but this hasn't stopped her from trashing the work and characters of ...

One of the first rock bassists whose instrument regularly took a lead role, he also had a hand in writing some of the band’s best-known songs ... Jack Casady in Jefferson Airplane, a mainstay ...

Bassist Phil Lesh, whose dense, inventive playing powered the Grateful Dead and, following the 1995 death of guitarist Jerry Garcia, many of the San Francisco band’s touring reincarnations, died ...

He was surrounded by his family and full of love. Phil brought immense joy ... travelers Jack Bruce of Cream and Jack Casady of Jefferson Airplane and later Hot Tuna, two other musical explorers ...

a founding member of Jefferson Airplane. After, he came backstage and introduced himself. He said he wanted his current band, Jefferson Starship, to cover two of my band's songs on his future album.

“He was surrounded by his family and full of love. Phil brought immense joy ... along with The Jefferson Airplane, Big Brother and the Holding Company with Janis Joplin, Quicksilver Messenger ...

Marty Balin wrote good love songs; Jorma and Jack were fans of the blues and ... both of which blossom on Jefferson Airplane’s astounding album. “I wrote screwy stuff—’White Rabbit’ and ‘Eskimo Blue ...

Today in Music History for Nov. 12: ...