The fastest way to hear the Grateful Dead's live legacy.
Free for iPhone & CarPlay. No ads, no tracking.
Thousands of Grateful Dead concerts spanning 1965 to 1995, streaming free — every recording drawn from the Internet Archive's Grateful Dead collection, the same tapes traded by Deadheads for decades. Dead Shows just makes them easy to find and beautiful to browse.
Yes, 100% free, with no ads, no tracking, no subscription and no in-app purchases. The recordings come from the Internet Archive, which hosts them for free.
Yes. Browse Today in Grateful Dead History, your Recents and Favorites, Trending shows, or every year of shows, open a setlist and play. Downloaded shows play with no signal.
The Internet Archive's Grateful Dead collection: thousands of soundboard, matrix and audience recordings from 1965 to 1995, shared under the band's longstanding taping policy.
The screen Dead Shows opens to: the shows the Dead played on today's date across the years, so there's something different to hear every day.
Yes. Download any show and it plays without a connection, on your iPhone or in CarPlay.
Archive recordings sometimes go flaky. Dead Shows switches to another recording of the same show and picks up at the same song, after checking the song lengths match so it doesn't land on a mislabeled recording.
Not yet. Dead Shows is iPhone and CarPlay only for now.
A longtime Deadhead who wanted the simplest possible way to hear a fresh show every day, without another subscription.