When the Grateful Dead’s 30-year run ended with the death of guitarist-composer Jerry Garcia, the band had morphed into one of the world’s most popular concert tour attractions. Now they’ve made it to the concert hall. Lee Johnson, the composer behind “Dead Symphony No. 6: An Orchestral Tribute to the Grateful Dead” joins us to talk about the long strange trip.

Listen to the interview with Lee Johnson (mp3)

The music journalist Carolina Gonzales talks about some of the hottest music web sites for Latin Alternative Music from the Latin Alternative Music Conference in New York.

Listen to an introduction to Latin independent music (mp3)

Here are the sites referenced in the WNYC interview:

Batanga.com
Elhood.com
Quepasa.com