Little Hippie Life
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The Other One: The Long Strange Trip of Bob Weir
Bob Weir’s guitar is on thousands of Grateful Dead songs over the last 50 years, and the new documentary “The Other One: The Long Strange Trip of Bob Weir” profiles...
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Jerry Garcia Learned New Realm of Improv from Lenny Bruce
On October 4, 1961, comedian Lenny Bruce was arrested at the Jazz Workshop in San Francisco on obscenity charges for saying what amounted to “two four-letter words and a preposition.”...
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Phil Lesh Learned About Struggling for Art from Composer Charles Ives
You’ve probably heard about what it is to struggle to be an artist. Some have struggled pretty hard, including a music composer named Charles Edward Ives (left), who was largely...
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Grace DeNegre’s cover of Uncle John’s Band for Dead Cover’s Project
Check out Grace DeNegre’s cover of Uncle John’s Band for this year’s Dead Cover’s Project. She did a great job creating her own arrangement and her voice is so sweet....
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Grateful Dead Covers Project featuring Laurie Kammer, Bird Song & Brokedown Palace
Here’s a super special Grateful Dead Covers Project video for you! Our very good friend and long time co-worker Laurie Kammer created this arrangement of Bird Song & Brokedown Palace....
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Last-ever Grateful Dead Show at Alpine Valley on the Big Screen
Get excited to watch a big screen presentation from Fathom Events and Rhino Entertainment who are bringing the Grateful Dead back to the big screen for the fifth annual Meet-Up...
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Laurie Kammer, Creative Contributor, shares her Little Hippie Journey and new Artwork
Creating artwork for Little Hippie has been on my list of ‘cool jobs I’d love’ ever since I bought my first shirt from their booth at Berkfest 2003 in the...
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The Making of Town Mountain’s Dead Session Album Art
In case you haven’t heard, Town Mountain are set to release renditions of two Grateful Dead Tunes to honor the Grateful Dead’s 50th Anniversary. Town Mountain recorded bluegrass versions of two of...
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The Hippie History of Greenwich Village
For the last 42 years, thousands of costumed weirdos have paraded through the bohemian capital of Greenwich Village, New York City – and that’s just what happens on Halloween. We...
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Proto-Hippies and the Introduction of the American Hippie
Here at Little Hippie we’ve been on a mission to dive into the origin story and evolution of the hippie – where did this culture come from, what does it...