The Chart Is Terrifying

**Casey Liss** (0:00)
What you can do, John, is you can just hit this one out, because everyone knows that the show is really about Marco and me, and you're just a Klingon. So you can just hit this one out.

**John Siracusa** (0:07)
From Star Trek?

**Casey Liss** (0:08)
No, not that kind of Klingon. Anyway, all right, let's get the show on the road. Hey, Marco, I have incredible, incredible news for you and for me. And I know we briefly talked about this privately, but I wanted to bring it up one more time publicly.
Marco, on nugs.net, which we've talked about a fair bit recently on account of me being freaking obsessed with Goose these days.

**Marco Arment** (0:30)
They're really on a roll too. It's really not helping you.

**Casey Liss** (0:33)
It's not helping at all.
Anyways, nugs is finally one day later, broadcasting or archiving, whatever verb you want to use. They're offering up for listening for streaming Dave Matthews Band's concerts, which is incredible news for your boy, because I have to tell you, the only way I used to be able to get Matthews Band concert was to either trade for it when I was a child, with tapes or CDs, or there's some places where you can find torrents and the idea is that that sticks with the spirit of the band's taping policy, which is that you have to share, because with a torrent, you're sharing, but you're not supposed to go stream it from somewhere or something like that.

**Marco Arment** (1:12)
That's a pretty fine distinction.

**Casey Liss** (1:14)
We're going to move right past that.
But these are all audience recordings. So this is people who bring, it used to be dat tapes, and now it's like mixed pres, like I'm talking to you through right now, and hook them up to microphones on towers. And the quality has gotten way better than it was in 96 when I started listening to Dave Matthews Band, but certainly pretty crappy still in the year 2026

**Marco Arment** (1:37)
Yeah, it's still a microphone in the audience. There's only so good that can be compared to the soundboard.

**Casey Liss** (1:41)
That's exactly it. But these are soundboard recordings from Dave Matthews Band. They have finally joined the ranks of their peer, jam bands, which is going to cruise right on there. Peer jam bands, and they are offering their concert recordings the following day. This is monumental news for me and I'm sure for you.

**Marco Arment** (2:00)
Yes, obviously. What has been missing from my life is a way to get higher quality Dave Matthews Band recordings of all the things I want to listen to from the Dave Matthews Band.

**Casey Liss** (2:11)
Exactly right. So our long national nightmare is over, our long international nightmare is over. And I just wanted to make sure that I called that to your attention, Marco, that you can now stream Dave Matthews Band concerts the following day on NUGZ.

**Marco Arment** (2:23)
Yeah.
And to be to be fair, like even though Dave Matthews Band is not my cup of tea, I have been so much enjoying for many, many years now that Fish and then later Goose would put for sale for about 10 bucks each. Every live show they did, direct masterings from the soundboard with very high quality. And with the same mastering you would get on, like if a band released a live album to iTunes and Spotify, like that same kind of mastering level, like they're doing that every show and they release it the morning after the show or later that night for 10 bucks. Like Fish are doing this years ago and as Goose has gotten popular, they've been doing it. And it is such a joy for like your favorite band to basically release a new set, a new album every night of a tour. So, you know, you get what 20 or 30 a year. Yeah, it's amazing to have that much music coming from a band that you love. And it's and, you know, because these are jam bands, plus Dave Matthews band. They're all the shows are all different. Like, so you get a different performance, like a noticeably, you know, quite different performance, quite different set list every night.
You know, obviously there are some songs you hear a lot, but like you're getting a different a different performance and a different work every time, every night they play. And so you end up just getting a, you know, but by being a fan of these bands, you end up getting a huge amount of new music every year. And it's just, it's just a wonderful thing to be a fan of these bands. So for Dave Matthews to have finally joined that mechanism, I'm happy for the fans like you who get to enjoy that same thing.