With Peter Gabriel’s Encore Series the idea is a simple one, record the shows directly from the soundboard and then professionally master them to produce complete, unedited live recordings. For the first time a selection of the recordings are now available to stream, exclusively on nugs, starting with four shows from the 2003 ‘Growing Up Live’ Tour.
“Last time we had two stages, a male stage and a female stage, and they were representing different things, urban and rural and this time we have moved the axis vertically, and it’s a sky stage and an earth stage. I want to play a lot of new music because not only has there been the ‘UP’ album, but also the ‘OVO’ record. We also asked on our website and there were votes for different songs, so we’re picking out some of the older ones from there. It’s a sort of combination.” – pg
More shows from the Encore archive to follow soon.
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nugs is excited to partner again with the Grateful Dead to celebrate their 60th Anniversary with a highly anticipated return to big screens for the annual theatrical event “Meet-Up At The Movies” – in select territories worldwide on August 14.
For a limited time only, this special cinematic event allows fans to come together and celebrate the enduring legacy of the Grateful Dead. This year, Rhino Entertainment and Trafalgar Releasing present the Dead’s eponymous film THE GRATEFUL DEAD MOVIE. This fan-favorite cult classic follows the legendary band on what at the time was believed to be their final performances, a five-night run at San Francisco’s Winterland Ballroom in October of 1974, the final night billed as “The Last One.” Featuring stellar live performances, mind-bending animation, interviews with band members and crew, the film has a rare focus on the band’s fans and their deep commitment to the Dead Head lifestyle. Be sure to stay till the end for the exclusive theatrical premier of “China Cat Sunflower>I Know You Rider” , a bonus live performance from the October ‘74 Winterland shows not included in the official film release.
New this year, in addition to traditional cinema, THE GRATEFUL DEAD MOVIE will grace IMAX® screens in select territories worldwide! This larger than life presentation has been remastered by IMAX® for sound and picture for an immersive and powerful experience, making this a must-see event. David Lemieux, Grateful Dead archivist and legacy manager, said after experiencing the film in IMAX® – “it was the greatest screening I’ve ever experienced of a film I’ve seen hundreds of times”
Three winners will be chosen: To celebrate the Grateful Dead’s 2025 Meet-Up At The Movies, one lucky nugs subscriber will win four movie passes, and a 6LP ‘The Music Never Stopped’ set! In addition, three more subscribers will each win a set of 4 movie passes to the Meet-Up At The Movies plus the 3CD ‘The Music Never Stopped’ set. Enter here.
For this year’s Meet-Up, join us for a special presentation of The Grateful Dead Movie, premiering for the first time in IMAX and select theatres worldwide on August 14th. Tickets are available at MeetUpAtTheMovies.com
‘The Music Never Stopped’ presents a nearly four hour collection of one song (or two, or three…) from every show in the Dead’s new road tripping boxed set, ‘ENJOYING THE RIDE,’ which brings together music from 20 (21…) of the most essential venues in Grateful Dead and Dead Head history.
Special thanks to Rhino, Dead.net, and Trafalgar for these items.
Each week, nugs.net founder Brad Serling brings his long-standing radio show to SiriusXM Jam On, debuting choice tracks curated from the week in live music. Check out this week’s playlist below, featuring professionally mixed recordings from Trey Anastasio, Billy Strings, Goose, Eggy, and more.
The #WeeklyLiveStash premieres each Friday at 6pm ET on SiriusXM channel 309, with encore airings on Saturday at 11am ET, Sunday at 3pm ET, and Monday at 9pm ET.
nugs subscribers can stream this week’s tracks from the #WeeklyLiveStash in the app (playlist will only open on mobile, but can be saved to your Library for desktop playback). nugs subscribers can also visit their My Account page to check their eligibility for four months of SiriusXM All Access. Offer details apply.
This month’s Third Man Thursday release comes from nine Jack White shows on his 2025 “No Name” tour. Listen to fresh audio from London, Glasgow, Birmingham, Hiroshima, Osaka, and Tokyo now. Read more about the shows below:
“You’re a thousand points of light / There’s only one Jack White”
This line, lyrically improvised by none other than Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam, is a quintessential encapsulation of how illuminating Jack White’s 2025 tour continues to be. The cover of Neil Young’s “Rockin’ In The Free World” with Vedder’s guest vocals is just one of many highlights in the latest batch of nine new recordings available to listen to now as part of the monthly series Third Man Third Thursday. While songs off “No Name” like “Old Scratch Blues” and “Archbishop Harold Holmes” continue to captivate and evolve and grow into these expressive beasts of primal, blasting energy, new takes on old classics from Jack’s solo career and White Stripes days keep on invigorating the quarter century’s worth of tunes from the man. Further buoyed by left-field surprises like an impromptu mash-up of the inimitable riff to “Peter Gunn” paired with the lyrics to John Lee Hooker’s “Boogie Chillin” to an unpredictable take on “Heartbreak Hotel” through a quick spin of Dale Hawkins’ “Suzie-Q” through a soft, heartfelt rendition of Loretta Lynn’s “Whispering Sea” and a run through of Eddie Cochran’s “Summertime Blues” and what you get is the pure, simple proof that there’s only one Jack White. Listen now on Nugs.net
Newly revitalized and hot off the release of ‘Discipline’ – 29 new shows from King Crimson’s 1981 North American tour are now streaming exclusively on nugs
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With Discipline, King Crimson reinvented itself in the 1980s, blending New Wave, minimalism, and intricate interlocking guitar work. The lineup for this era featured Robert Fripp (guitar), Adrian Belew (guitar, vocals), Tony Levin (bass, Chapman stick), and Bill Bruford (drums). Tracks like “Elephant Talk” and “Frame by Frame” became signature pieces, characterized by their complex rhythms and tightly woven guitar interplay.
“The next step is Discipline,” proclaimed the run-out groove of The League of Gentlemen’s self-titled album, released in February 1981. It partially chronicled the short-lived career of what Robert Fripp described as his “new wave instrumental dance band.” However, the next step took many by surprise. The newly revitalized King Crimson, when it emerged, bore some hallmarks of the League, but also introduced a bold new sound that reflected Fripp’s steady compositional evolution.
Fripp had been developing fast, cyclical guitar lines since the late 1960s, and hints of Discipline’s sound could be found in earlier King Crimson pieces like “Larks’ Tongues in Aspic, Part 1” and “Fracture,” as well as in his collaborations with Talking Heads (“I Zimbra”) and his solo work (“The Zero of the Signified”). Yet, when Discipline was released in September 1981, its taut, streamlined compositions and fresh harmonic ideas felt like a quantum leap from the King Crimson of the past. The shift surprised both fans and critics alike.
“Sure, this is King Crimson,” Fripp told Creem magazine. “But we’re not playing period pieces…It’s a modern rock band playing in 1981.” Initially named Discipline, it became clear to Fripp during rehearsals that the music being created was unmistakably King Crimson. “In the first week of rehearsal, I knew the band I was hearing was King Crimson,” he later reflected.
The new lineup saw Fripp and Bill Bruford joined by American musicians Tony Levin and Adrian Belew, a combination that embraced change and evolution. Fripp had originally assumed that Levin, a prolific session bassist, would be unavailable, but Levin jumped at the opportunity to work with Fripp again. “I had met Robert on the Peter Gabriel recording in 1976, and it was the chance to make music with him that got me to that first Crimson rehearsal,” Levin recalls.
Adrian Belew was the final piece of the puzzle. Fripp first encountered Belew during David Bowie’s Heroes tour and later at a Steve Reich concert. Belew’s distinct guitar work and stage presence allowed Fripp to realize the interlocking guitar parts he had long envisioned, exemplified in tracks like “Frame by Frame.” Belew’s experimental solos and unique vocal style added an entirely new dimension to King Crimson, with standout performances on tracks like “Thela Hun Ginjeet” and “Elephant Talk.”
The album Discipline was not only a departure but also a continuation of Crimson’s evolving sound. “Matte Kudasai,” a ballad with roots in The League of Gentlemen, evokes the poignant lyricism of earlier Crimson, while “The Sheltering Sky” combines ancient-sounding percussion with modern technology, creating an atmospheric, timeless piece.
The album’s title track and “Indiscipline” exemplify the band’s philosophy: independent, fragile musical lines that, when woven together, create something resilient and powerful. Much like the knot-work that adorns the album’s cover, Discipline was about interconnectedness and balance—an ambitious and challenging musical feat that King Crimson achieved effortlessly.
King Crimson debuted this lineup as Discipline on April 30, 1981, at Moles Club in Bath, but by the time they embarked on their October tour, they had reclaimed the King Crimson name. For Adrian Belew, this lineup holds a special place: “I think it was probably the best band in the world at the time! Heavy, light, fun, and dark—it was the perfect combination of things. That first record we did is the proof. It’s still groundbreaking.”
The same line-up released two more albums – Beat in 1982, from which the single Heartbeat was taken, and Three of a Perfect Pair in 1984, from which the single Sleepless was taken. Their final live show was in Montreal on 11th July 1984, and was released as the album “Absent Lovers”. A ‘missing fourth album’ of recordings from an abandoned session in Champaign-Urbana in 1983 were released in 2002 as part of the King Crimson Collectors Club series.
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Under the red and white banner of Coca-Cola, the band from Southwest Detroit kick off the Get Behind Me Satan tour in Northeast Mexico, their first show in over 8 months. As it turns out, the venue was apparently only half-full, due to the two local soccer teams both having important games on this day. Something poetic about the sport that had co-opted the band’s music from the last tour, turning “Seven Nation Army” into an anthem, now also co-opting their audience at the start of the new one. After the pre-show sounds of the local crowd speaking Spanish, the band take the stage with the sound of Jack doing a quick check on the strings. The brief chord he strikes sounds eerily similar to the famous opening chord of the Beatles’ “A Hard Day’s Night”, like an unintentionally symbolic start to the first show of what would be their most expansive world tour. After the opener of “Dead Leaves”, Jack gives a warm greeting of “Hermanos y Hermanas!”, and it’s into “Black Math.” And just as you think how familiar it all seems, as Math ends with a prolonged wail of feedback, you suddenly hear the sound of the Electro-Harmonix POG pedal being switched on, as if timestamping the exact moment when the Elephant era officially makes way for Get Behind Me Satan, setting up the live debut of “Blue Orchid.” This first performance of the song even starts with a set of pulsing notes mimicking “The Hardest Button To Button”, like a real-time metamorphosis from one phase into the next. In addition to “Blue Orchid”, this show also features the live debuts of “My Doorbell”, “The Nurse”, “The Denial Twist”, “Little Ghost”, “Passive Manipulation” and “I’m Lonely (But I Ain’t That Lonely Yet)” – the selection of songs perfectly highlighting all of the wonderful new instruments that the band had added to the stage, from the Steinway grand piano and the Rhodes piano bass, to the pair of vintage acoustic guitars (a white Gibson J-160e used on “Hotel Yorba”, and a Gibson L-1 on “We’re Going to Be Friends”), a vintage Gibson F-4 mandolin, and of course the marimba and timpani – complete with triangle. This is also the first show to feature the Rob Jones-designed backdrop featuring a garden of eden setting with a giant white apple in the center, which could be turned from white to red depending on the lighting. And just as the new set design would remain for the entirety of the tour, so too would Jack’s updated stage look, complete with cordobes-style hat. And yet, even with how deliberate the stage design and visual presentation of the new tour was, you can still hear Jack off-mic confirming with Meg before each new song gets played. Still the same spontaneous Stripes, no setlist required. With the new songs having been recorded just weeks before the show, the performance still manages to have an experimental feel to it, even though the songs are played almost exactly as they sound on the soon-to-be-released record. And even with the expected adjustments that come with the debut of new music after having been off the road for so long, the band sound confident and refreshed here, making the performance a wonderful start to the tour. “Passive Manipulation”, at just 35 seconds long, might be the unexpected highlight of the night, featuring Jack staying on the staccato chords the whole way through, and Meg ending the song with an off-mic “That’s it!” and a quiet laugh. Listen also for the debut of Blind Willie Johnson’s “Lord I Just Can’t Keep From Crying”, performed here as a vocal interlude in “Death Letter” – in the spot normally occupied by “Grinnin’ In Your Face” and “Motherless Children.” By the next performance of the song two shows later in Mexico City, Jack would add a guitar accompaniment and place it at the beginning of “Death Letter” – a format which he would repeat at future dates on the tour. The show also features excellent renditions of the older songs, with the back half of “Fell In Love With A Girl” getting a welcome reprise of the Joss Stone version, “Let’s Build a Home” featuring Jack doing an excellent Cliff Gallup-style rockabilly guitar solo in the middle, and “I Just Don’t Know What To Do With Myself” picking up where the Elephant tour left off, with the audience singing along loud and happy.
This month’s release from Third Man Records continues Jack White’s Winter 2025 tour with a drop of ten shows, starting with three intimate NYC shows before heading to Boston and then across the pond to Paris and Utrecht.
The ten newest shows to drop from the universally heralded “No Name” tour are a clutch of multi-show stands across New York, Boston, Paris and Utrecht. Spirited, heat of the moment takes on “Louie Louie”, the Modern Lovers “Roadrunner” to “Boogie Chillen'” and Iggy Pop’s “The Passenger” delight in addition to no shortage of extended, blistering improvisations and so much more if you just dig in.
Of particular excitement is the February 26th show in Utrecht, home to influential architect and furniture designer Gerrit Rietveld. As one of the pre-eminent members of the De Stijl art movement in the early 20th century, the White Stripes album De Stijl was in part dedicated to him. So not only did Jack White perform part of the show while seated in a replica of Rietveld’s revolutionary Red and Blue Chair, but he also dusted of six songs originally released on De Stijl, some like “Jumble, Jumble” which haven’t been played live in over twenty years! Hear it all now, only on nugs.net.
We’re excited to announce that 30 new Phish concerts from recent years are now streaming on nugs! With ten each from 2022, 2023, and 2024, journey through the nearly innumerable highlights including standout sit-ins from Billy Strings and Derek Trucks!
Get instant access to these freshly-dropped shows along with the entire nugs streaming catalog when you start a 7-day free trial now.
Read on below for some team-favorite shows to get started on your listening!
7/16/22 Bangor, ME: This show features a titanic 30-minute rendition of “Down with Disease,” marking a clear high point of the 2022 summer tour.
12/30/22 New York, NY: With a rare jammed-out “Theme from the Bottom” plus an all-killer second set highlighted by a big “No Men in No Man’s Land” and dissonant “Sand,” this show carries the strong legacy of December 30th Phish.
7/23/23 Syracuse, NY: A 19-minute first-set-closing “Kill Devil Falls” plus an exceptionally rare combination of back-to-back 20-minute jams in “Tweezer” and “Oblivion” highlight this upstate NY stop from summer 2023.
8/26/23 Saratoga Springs, NY: Derek Trucks joins the band for the bulk of the second set and encore for a wildly memorable journey through nonstop energy and blazing hot guitar playing from he and Trey both.
4/21/24 Las Vegas, NV: The closing night of Phish’s debut run at Sphere comes with some of the band’s best jamming of the run in the two-hour second set’s “Down with Disease” and “Light.”
8/6/24 Grand Rapids, MI: Highlighted by Billy Strings’ first time playing with Phish, the augmented band unleashed the longest “The Moma Dance” of their career while giving Strings several showcases for his whirlwind guitar chops.
Exclusive to nugs.net, twenty-eight more hi-res official concert recordings from King Crimson are now available to stream in the nugs app or order online. Courtesy of the prog-rock icons’ archivist, read more about the transformative ‘Double Duo’ North America tour from the turn of the century, featuring the dynamic lineup of Adrian Belew (guitar & vocals), Robert Fripp (guitar), Trey Gunn (touch guitar), and Pat Mastelotto (acoustic and electronic percussion).
In 1999, with Bruford now committed to pursuing his own band Earthworks and Levin signed up for a world tour with the singer Seal, a new King Crimson coalesced around Belew, Fripp, Gunn, and Mastelotto It had taken the best part of three years and over 50 gigs by the ProjeKcts for this particular version to present itself. In a bitter-sweet twist, Levin’s tour with Seal was unexpectedly canceled and Belew lobbied for the bassist’s inclusion when he and Fripp met in Nashville in August 1999. However, Fripp’s instinct was to go with the Double Duo as he now dubbed the group. Levin was sanguine about the new line-up in his online diary. “Robert has wisely decided to go ahead anyway, with the invitation to Bill and me that we can come back for the next incarnation. I agree that it’s time for a Crimson release and tour — if we wait for everyone to be available, it could take years.”
The state of flux typifying this period threatened to engulf Belew who had qualms not only about the amount of time Fripp envisaged the new group should tour but also his own role within the new line-up. In September, as Fripp was packing his bags at his house in Dorset ahead of his return to America he received a call from Crimson’s manager Richard Chadwick with the news that Belew had quit. “Crimson usually breaks up after tours or during rehearsals,” Fripp noted at the time. “The Double Duo is a first in that it has broken up before rehearsing, recording and touring. Even for Crimson, this is an achievement.”
These teething problems were overcome and the new quartet decamped to Belew’s basement studio with the challenge of writing and recording an album’s worth of new material in just eight weeks. They succeeded, in fact, in recording two albums, as they also completed an album of improvisations, under the name “Projekct X”.
Released in 2000, the 12th King Crimson studio album finds a slimmed-down quartet breaking new ground as well as retooling older themes with FraKctured and Lark’s Tongues In Aspic Part IV, both containing some of Fripp’s most terrifyingly complicated lines to date.
Alongside Pat Mastelotto’s arsenal of electronic drums and Trey Gunn’s growling touch guitar, Adrian Belew’s scarily manic soloing and his penchant for surreal lyrics run riot during the roiling, skewed gait of The World’s My Oyster Soup Kitchen Floor Wax Museum. And they even Crimsonise the humble 12-bar with ProzaKc Blues.
2000 saw the band touring in support of the album in Europe, Japan and North America, with the new songs featuring heavily in the set alongside sections of improvisation, old favourites from the 80s and 90s, plus an acoustic solo spot from Adrian, and on many nights an encore of David Bowie’s Heroes.
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This month’s release from Third Man Records highlights four shows to kick off 2025 – a lauded surprise performance in Anaheim plus three electric nights in Toronto including White’s debut at the legendary Massey Hall.
The first four Jack White shows of 2025 are unprecedentedly stellar. While the month-long holiday break would dull the shine of lesser bands, Jack and company came back with discernible fire to start the year, stronger than ever.
Announced only days in advance, the Anaheim performance from January 25th might be the best pure show in terms of sonics and recording quality that White has ever dropped on Nugs. Loud and upfront and in your face. From the Delta-styled slide guitar improvisation “Bugging Out” coupled with a spirited take on Willie Dixon’s “Spoonful” and an improv detailing a trip that day to Roscoe’s Chicken & Waffles (which we’ve titled “Roscoe’s Chicken And Waffles”) and this gig is a rip-snorting barnburner all around.
The following three shows from Toronto are no slouch though. Jack kicked off his first ever appearance at the iconic Massey Hall with a rousing romp through “Rockin’ In The Free World” as a sly nod to Neil Young, the artist most often associated with the legendary venue. Water, gasoline, phonographs, archbishops, buffaloes, licorice, balls, biscuits, orchids and even more gems to find if you dig deep, the 2025 run is already shaping up to rival the intensity and insanity of 2024.
Entering the 60th year of Grateful Dead, bands from across the music scene continue to pay tribute to the original band and their music. Enjoy this curated collection from Goose, Gov’t Mule, Dogs in a Pile, Trampled By Turtles, Railroad Earth, and more via our playlist in the mobile app.
With tons of concerts from across the musical spectrum uploaded to nugs.net in 2024, we crunched the numbers and looked at what YOU listened to the most all year! Explore the top shows below and get access to our full audio and video catalog with a year of All Access – only $99 for a VERY limited time!
We’re excited to bring you another edition of the “Gratefully Deadicated” playlist, a regular compilation to showcase the continued impact and inspiration drawn from the Grateful Dead catalog. Focusing on August 2024, we’re featuring performances from Counting Crows, Greensky Bluegrass, The String Cheese Incident, as they celebrate the legacy of the legendary songbook.
Subscribers can stream this month’s playlist now, or sign up for a free trial to listen. The playlist is only accessible in the nugs mobile app, but you can save it to your library to listen on desktop. Explore the songs and the artists included below, and know that the music never stops!
We’re excited to bring you another edition of the “Gratefully Deadicated” playlist, a regular compilation to showcase the continued impact and inspiration drawn from the Grateful Dead catalog. Focusing on June 2024, we’re featuring performances from Holly Bowling, Orebolo, moe., Counting Crows, and more as they celebrate the legacy of the legendary songbook.
Subscribers can stream this month’s playlist now, or sign up for a free trial to listen. The playlist is only accessible in the nugs mobile app, but you can save it to your library to listen on desktop. Explore the songs and the artists included below, and know that the music never stops!
We’re excited to bring you another edition of the “Gratefully Deadicated” playlist, a regular compilation to showcase the continued impact and inspiration drawn from the Grateful Dead catalog. Focusing on June 2024, we’re featuring performances from Goose, The String Cheese Incident, Counting Crows, and more as they celebrate the legacy of the legendary songbook.
Subscribers can stream this month’s playlist now, or sign up for a free trial to listen. The playlist is only accessible in the nugs mobile app, but you can save it to your library to listen on desktop. Explore the songs and the artists included below, and know that the music never stops!
