The live music you feel.
Chills is a place for listeners who love the raw sound of live music, and for anyone with permission to share the performances they care about. We’ve pre-populated it with live recordings already available online as a demonstration. Our aim is an artist-led, community-run home for these sounds, growing through your submissions.
Chills exists because the best version of most songs is not the studio recording. It's the live version — where you hear the crowd, the room, the improvisation, the raw energy that makes the hair on your arms stand up.
Remarkable live performances are scattered across provider catalogues, mixed in with studio recordings, incomplete uploads, and recordings with wildly different quality. Finding the exact version you remember is still much harder than it should be.
Chills is designed around that search. Every track in the release catalogue is checked against its live source, song metadata, permissions and playback availability. Live sessions are labelled separately where audience presence is unknown.
Performances from SoundCloud, Bandcamp, Audius, the Internet Archive, and Phish.in in official players or permitted upstream audio. Relisten helps rank the strongest Archive sources; the original provider remains the source of playback and attribution.
Artists, venues, tapers and listeners upload recordings they have permission to share. After source checks, community votes decide which recordings join the catalogue. You can also suggest song titles and boundaries in full sets. Voting never closes: with more than 50 votes, a recording below 50% approval is unlisted and remains available for review. Rights-holder removals are handled separately.
Most beta catalogue recordings use their provider's official player and link back to the original item. Chills may also host recordings supplied directly by artists, venues, labels, promoters, recordists, or other rights holders under written permission. Directly hosted performances are clearly identified and credited. Relisten-ranked recordings remain hosted by the Internet Archive, and Internet Archive and Phish.in recordings are used only on this free, non-commercial service. Audius recordings stream from the Audius API and retain their artist and original-track attribution. Provider playback, attribution, and rights controls remain intact.
Chills seeks no commercial gain from Grateful Dead or other trade-friendly recordings. Copyrights remain with the performers, writers, publishers, and other rights holders. Read how Relisten works and the Internet Archive's Grateful Dead collection policy. Access is removed or quarantined when an artist, rights holder, uploader, Relisten, or the Archive restricts it.
Every performance page includes direct links to support the artist via Bandcamp, merch stores, upcoming gigs, and tip jars.
Have recordings you would like Chills to host? Start a partner conversation.
If you would like a performance removed, tell us below. We prioritise rights-holder requests and do not require you to make the request public.
Built with love for live music.
The studio recording is the demo. The live performance is the song.