What can the Grateful Dead tell us... about us? Five decades after sparking the counterculture movement, the Grateful Dead are more alive than ever, and filmmaker Emmett Malloy (Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell, The White Stripes Under Great White Northern Lights) 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. America’s Dead from Sonos, is a podcast about the Grateful Dead – but more than that, it’s about how music has the power to transform identity and create community.