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Nugs Launches Play Dead, the Official Hi-Res Home for the Grateful Dead Vault

The new service gives fans a chronological, hi-res path through decades of concerts with weekly additions.

A new app called Play Dead gives Grateful Dead fans the opportunity to stream the band's live vault tracks from their phones.
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Overview

  • The app, which went live Thursday, offers 422 full shows in better-than-CD quality at launch, according to USA TODAY.
  • Play Dead starts with 20 previously unreleased concerts and adds two more unreleased shows every Tuesday, a pace archivist David Lemieux says will bring roughly 100 new vault shows each year.
  • Lemieux curates the releases while engineer David Glasser masters new 24-bit transfers in what nugs CEO Brad Serling calls the largest tape-transfer project in rock and roll.
  • Recordings are organized by performance date for the first time in the Dead’s catalog, helping listeners trace the band’s evolution one show at a time.
  • Built with Grateful Dead Productions and Rhino, the app is available on iOS, Android and the web with a $9.99 monthly standalone plan, add-on and bundle options, plus features like offline downloads and CarPlay/Android Auto.