Stream (For Free!) More Than 40,000 Concerts and Sessions on Moshpit

Between the likes of Paste Studio sessions and the audio archives of Daytrotter alone, it is fair to say that I have personally experienced a lot of amazing music during my long tenure as a Paste Media employee. But these gems are merely scratching the surface of the incredibly deep lineup of streaming music that is now available–totally free–through Paste Media’s newly launched live music streaming site Moshpit, which unites the sprawling, eclectic archives collected under our broader banner. More than 40,000 concerts, sessions and interviews have been painstakingly compiled and are now accessible for free via Moshpit, which is now the largest live-performance music streaming site on the web. We’re talking about concerts from the 1950s through sessions recorded at festivals merely weeks ago, all at the click of a button.

Moshpit was created with the legendary live performance catalogs of Bill Graham, King Biscuit, Silver Eagle Cross Country, Metropolitan, The Record Plant, Starfleet, Dawson Sound, Hewitt, and the Newport Jazz and Folk Festivals, combined with modern sessions recorded by the likes of Daytrotter and Paste Studio. All have been transferred from their original format and restored in the highest digital format possible, with digital transfers that were mixed and mastered, and assembled into tracklists for easy one-track listening. They include concerts from some of the most storied venues in the history of American live music, such as Fillmore West, Fillmore East, Tramps, Great American Music Hall, Winterland and countless others.

A wide variety of bands and performers? Yeah, I’d say Moshpit qualifies on that front as well: I was curious how many band entries there were starting with “A” alone, and the answer is more than 500. This is a staggering collection of music in most any genre you would think to search, from afrobeat to zydeco. That said, vintage classic rock is particularly well represented, with full concerts from the likes of The Rolling Stones, Janis Joplin, Bruce Springsteen, Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, King Crimson, Fleetwood Mac, Elton John and countless others. Hell, you can probably track down individual concerts attended by your parents! Signing up for the Moshpit email newsletter will also supply you with a helpful guide to both new concerts and gems unearthed from the archives.

Personally, I’m looking forward to reliving some in-person musical memories from the last few decades, from first hearing Elle King’s “Ex’s and Oh’s” in a Paste Studio session only weeks before it would become a top 10 Billboard hit and Platinum-selling single, to shows I attended before ever joining up with Paste, such as a particularly raucous Daytrotter Barnstormer show in rural Illinois where I was distinctly afraid the entire venue was about to collapse, because people were stomping so hard. These moments have all been preserved in the amber of my memory, but how thrilling to be able to experience them all over again!

With an unfathomable amount of live musical performance to discover, what will you spool up first at Moshpit?

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