Dead Daily

Dead Daily is a free daily music game for Grateful Dead fans. Each day a new clip is drawn from the Internet Archive's Grateful Dead collection — one of the largest live-music archives in the world — and your job is to guess the year it was recorded. You get four guesses with directional hints after each wrong answer.

The Dead performed from 1965 to 1995 and their sound changed dramatically across three decades: the raw psychedelia of the late sixties, the Europe '72 and Wall-of-Sound peaks of the early seventies, the jazz-tinted late seventies, Brent Mydland's bluesier eighties, and the Vince Welnick final years. Learning to hear those differences is the whole game.

After each round you can browse the full show archive — over 1,300 dates with venue details, era notes, and a link to the complete concert recording — or go back and play missed days. New to the band? The how-to-play guide covers the rules and includes era-by-era listening tips.