To mark its tenth yr because the “Official Beer of File Retailer Day,” Dogfish Head has teamed up with the Grateful Useless to launch a particular vinyl compilation, ON A BACK PORCH VOL. 1—a set of stay Grateful Useless tracks curated from the band’s archives by Dogfish Head Founder Sam Calagione and Grateful Useless Archivist David Lemieux. The document will probably be obtainable at independently owned document shops nationwide beginning Saturday, April 12, File Retailer Day.
“Spanning the years 1969, 1973, 1977, 1989, and 1991, ON A BACK PORCH, VOL 1 touches upon all eras of Grateful Useless music, and options classics equivalent to ‘Eyes Of The World,’ ‘Right here Comes Sunshine,’ and rarer cuts together with ‘Straightforward Wind,’ and ‘Large Railroad Blues,’” stated Lemieux. “Mastered by GRAMMY® Award-winning engineer, David Glasser at Airshow Mastering, ON A BACK PORCH VOL. 1 will get you within the temper for sipping your favourite Dogfish Head beer on a again porch in July, or any of the opposite 11 months of the yr.”
Designed to enrich back-porch beer-sipping, ON A BACK PORCH VOL 1 finest pairs with Dogfish Head and Grateful Useless’s newest collaborative beer, Grateful Useless Juicy Pale Ale. Clocking in at 5.3% ABV, this year-round providing is a refreshing, light-bodied pale ale brewed with Kernza® perennial grains from The Land Institute*, granola, and heaps of excellent karma. The addition of El Dorado and Azacca hops brings waves of pineapple, mango and fervour fruit notes for a vibrant tapestry of alluring aromas and flavors. Out there from coast-to-coast, on draft and cabinets, in 6pk/12oz cans and single-serve 19.2oz cans. Observe some down utilizing Dogfish Head’s Fish Finder.
“As a self-proclaimed ‘beer geek with a music downside,’ File Retailer Day has at all times been one in every of my favourite days of the yr,” stated Calagione. “And this yr, I get to have a good time one in every of my favourite days by partnering with Grateful Useless on a stupendous beer and with David Lemieux on an exquisite album!”
A extremely anticipated annual vacation, File Retailer Day is a celebration of the tradition of independently owned document shops, and the vital roles these shops play of their respective communities. Understanding File Retailer Day’s connection to constructing neighborhood by analog music, Dogfish Head’s festivities wouldn’t be full with out a host of music-centric occasions at its coastal Delaware properties. Right here’s what to anticipate!
Dogfish Head Chesapeake & Maine (316 Rehoboth Ave., Rehoboth, DE 19971)
To kick off File Retailer Day weekend, music-lovers can cease by Chesapeake & Maine, Dogfish Head’s seafood and cocktail spot, on Friday, April 11, for a particular glad hour that includes interactive crafts benefitting the Growing Artist Collaboration (DAC), an artist-first non-profit centered on profession growth, peer connection and offering artists with bodily areas to create. The DAC will probably be onsite to steer company in acrylic pour artwork, permitting them to customise data, magnets bottle openers and extra.
Dogfish Head Brewings & Eats (320 Rehoboth Ave., Rehoboth, DE 19971)
Dogfish Head’s brewpub and world-class music venue, Brewings & Eats, will get in on the File Retailer Day enjoyable with a Grateful Useless listening get together on Saturday, April 12, from 12-3 p.m. Full with a DJ spinning vinyl tunes, killer giveaways – T-shirts, data, posters and extra – and Dogfish Head x Grateful Useless iron-branded burgers, the listening get together will probably be adopted by a stay music efficiency from LoveLight, an electrical, high-energy Grateful Useless tribute band. The band takes the stage from September 11 p.m. No tickets wanted!
Dogfish Head’s Milton Brewery (6 Cannery Village Heart, Milton, DE 19968)
The goodness persists at Dogfish Head’s Milton Brewery, on Sunday, April 13, from 11 a.m. to six p.m., with a particular File Retailer Day “Shakedown Road” Market that includes a number of native distributors. The staff from Prolonged Play by Gidgets Devices, a neighborhood independently owned document retailer, will probably be on web site with some unique File Retailer Day releases; To Dye For, a regional tie dye skilled, will probably be serving to of us customise their very own Dogfish Head x Grateful Useless tie dye shirts; and from 1-3 p.m., DJ Driod and Dogfish Head Founder & Brewer, Sam Calagione, will probably be spinning some fan-favorite data. To not point out, Dogfish Head’s onsite kitchen will function quite a lot of Shakedown Road-inspired meals specials, whereas provides final.
Dogfish INN (105 Savannah Rd., Lewes, DE 19958)
And final, however definitely not least – the Dogfish INN, the brewery’s beer-themed, canal-front lodge, will act because the basecamp for beer- and music-lovers’ File Retailer Day adventures. People staying on the INN will probably be handled to a particular File Retailer Day swag bundle of their rooms, and they’ll have the chance to bike from the INN to a neighborhood document retailer on File Retailer Day (Saturday, April 12) with Dogfish Head Founder & Brewer, Sam Calagione. No bike? No downside! The Dogfish INN has bikes for borrowing onsite. To e-book a room or be added to the wait record, please name the INN instantly, at 302-644-8292.
“Nothing fairly says ‘Blissful File Retailer Day’ just like the pairing of Grateful Useless music and an ideal Dogfish Head beer,” stated Michael Kurtz, Co-Founding father of File Retailer Day. “Sam and David’s curated Grateful Useless File Retailer Day album and the Grateful Useless Juicy Pale Ale are each distinctive. It’s thrilling to have all of this come collectively for File Retailer Day, one thing we couldn’t have dreamed of taking place 10 years in the past, however now it’s right here!”
For extra details about Dogfish Head, Grateful Useless and File Retailer Day, go to www.dogfish.com, www.useless.web, and www.recordstoreday.com, respectively.
*The Land Institute is a Kansas-based nonprofit remodeling agriculture with perennial grain crops like Kernza® that improve farmer resilience whereas addressing ecological challenges.
About Dogfish Head
With high quality, creativity and non-conformity at its core, Dogfish Head has been dedicated to brewing distinctive beers with high-caliber culinary components outdoors the Reinheitsgebot because the day it opened practically 30 years in the past. Devoted to exploring goodness of every kind, Dogfish Head later expanded its beverage artistry past simply craft beer to supply award-winning portfolios of full-proof spirits – whiskeys, gins, vodkas, rums and extra – and spirits-based, ready-to-drink canned cocktails. A Boston Beer Firm model and proud supporter of the Impartial Craft Brewing Seal, Dogfish Head is a Delaware-based entity consisting of Dogfish Head Craft Brewery, a manufacturing brewery and tasting room; Dogfish Head Distilling Co., a manufacturing distillery; Brewings & Eats, a brewpub and stay music venue; Chesapeake & Maine, a seafood and cocktail spot; and the Dogfish INN, a beer-themed, canal-front lodge. For extra about Dogfish Head, please go to www.dogfish.com or comply with the model on social media.
In regards to the Grateful Useless
The Grateful Useless is a social and musical phenomenon that grew into a real American treasure. In 1965, a complete era was linked collectively by widespread beliefs, gathering by the tons of and 1000’s. This motion created a seamless connection between the band and its followers. Because the band toured, Useless Heads would comply with. Not as a result of it was part of widespread tradition however as a result of it’s a true counterculture that exists to this very day-one that earnestly believes within the worth of its beliefs. By 1995, the Grateful Useless had attracted essentially the most concertgoers within the historical past of the music enterprise, and immediately stays one of many all-time leaders in live performance ticket gross sales. Ultimately, the caravan advanced right into a neighborhood with numerous artists, craftsmen and entrepreneurs supplying a rising demand for merchandise that related them to the music. At this time, the connection is as sturdy as ever, and their remaining tally of two,318 whole live shows stays a world document. The band was inducted into the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame in 1994 and obtained a Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007. In 2024, the Grateful Useless celebrated their 62nd Prime 40 album on the Billboard chart, a feat no different artist has achieved, and commemorated within the forty seventh class of the Kennedy Heart Honorees. The Grateful Useless have been the 2025 MusiCares Individuals of the 12 months honored on the 67th Annual GRAMMY® Awards.
About Rhino Leisure
Based mostly in Burbank, California, Warner Music Group’s Rhino Leisure was based in 1978 and is the world’s main popular culture label. Emphasizing flawless sound high quality, bonus tracks, informative liner notes, award-winning inventive packaging, an offbeat humorousness, and a robust social conscience, Rhino continues to set the usual for excellence within the reissue enterprise it pioneered in each the bodily and digital worlds. Rhino can also be increasing the definition of what a catalog music firm is, as evidenced by the label’s current identify and likeness illustration cope with Frank Sinatra and its multi-faceted relationship with Grateful Useless. The huge Rhino catalog of greater than 5,000 CDs, movies, and digital unique albums options materials by Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, The Doorways, Chicago, Black Sabbath, John Coltrane, Sure, Alice Cooper, Linda Ronstadt, The Ramones, The Monkees, Carly Simon, Curtis Mayfield, amongst many others.
About File Retailer Day
File Retailer Day is overseen by the Division of File Shops and is organized in collaboration with the Alliance of Impartial Media Shops (AIMS) and the Coalition of Impartial Music Shops (CIMS). The occasion helps unbiased document shops all year long by internet hosting occasions, particular releases, and numerous actions. As a world celebration of document retailer tradition, File Retailer Day takes place yearly, with the 2025 version scheduled for April 12.
