America's Dead

Five decades after sparking the counterculture movement, the Grateful Dead are more alive than ever, and filmmaker Emmett Malloy wants to find out how. In this limited-run series from Sonos, join Emmett as he unpacks how a band of misfits changed American music, culture and consciousness forever, as told through the eyes of Ezra Koenig (Vampire Weekend), Animal Collective, mycologist Paul Stamets, Lila Downs, Margo Price and many more. What can the Grateful Dead tell us... about us?Produced by work x work for Sonos

Finding Sobriety Through the Dead, with Grateful Don
Sep 15, 2022 – 00:22:52
Branford Marsalis Believes in Deadheads
Sep 15, 2022 – 00:17:06
The Creation of a Visual Language, with ESPO and Online Ceramics
Sep 15, 2022 – 00:15:44
How the Dead Changed Lila Downs’ Life
Sep 15, 2022 – 00:18:39
Mac DeMarco and Animal Collective are Channeling the Dead
Sep 15, 2022 – 00:22:50
Paul Stamets Says Eat Your Mushrooms
Sep 15, 2022 – 00:21:26
Margo Price and Bob Weir in Conversation
Sep 15, 2022 – 00:30:24
The Strange Hippie Default Mechanism, with Sam Cutler
Sep 15, 2022 – 00:20:12
The Dead are Channeling God, with Dr. Varun Soni and Sage
Sep 15, 2022 – 00:21:52
Ezra Koenig, in Defense of the Dead
Sep 15, 2022 – 00:25:20
Start Here
Sep 8, 2022 – 00:02:27

Recent Reviews

Ballatanda

Grateful for this!! 🙏🙏

Outstanding show, when is season 2?
Schooniverse

Very entertaining!

Whether you are a Dead Head or not (I am!) this is a good access point for people. Super interesting content and juxtaposition. Keep up the episodes and I love the personal touch that the host offers up every episode. Thanks for the last episode as I am a sober Dead Head as well. BRAVO!
JAHW Ideaz

Thanks! Coming Out of the Closet

This podcast gets into some really important questions that I too think about… the in-between home space that the GD provides. For a long time, although the GD was the background music of my life story and super front and center in my life, as far as my professional activist life I did it “on the side” and didn’t really mention it. This kind of show encourages me to come out of the closet and say it loud: GD is home and a major part of who I am, and I’m proud.
EveryNockNameIsTaken76

Perfect GenX perspective on the Dead

I totally missed the Dead when Jerry was alive because I was just too punk rock. Hearing these guys talk about these things 30years down the road was like being in a confessional for me. Never thought about the influence Kurt Cobain had on my totally unfounded hate for the Dead. Paid the ultimate price because Jerry is gone & I missed it. Now they are my favorite band. These pod casts are like having conversations with old high school friends. Loved every one.
Mkh918

Gratefully listening

Great podcast. Thanks for this.
LuckyLeopold

Well Done !

The Grateful Dead song book most of which was written by Hunter / Garcia is timeless and their songs will live on through musician who have yet to be born ! ✌️❤️⚡️🐢
bwodon

Very entertaining

I binged this series in an afternoon, and it was enjoyable! The content and topics were very good and interesting. Some of the flow of the interviews felt a little jagged and awkward, likely due to cleaning up the fluff for time constraints. It felt like reading a magazine interview aloud at points, but that’s okay. The content was and the words spoken were still very fun and entertaining. No better band to talk about for hours on end. Thanks, Emmett!!