MOSHPIT is the largest live performance music streaming website in the world. Tens of thousands of performers, hundreds of thousands of tracks and more than 40,000 concerts, sessions and interviews are featured on MOSHPIT. MOSHPIT’s content reaches back to the 1950s and extends into 2026. New content is added weekly from our studios across the United States, MOSHPIT concert recordings at venues and festivals and catalog acquisitions. Every Genre is represented from Rock to Country to Jazz and all their offshoots – plus Blues, Folk, Metal, Bluegrass, Hip-Hop, Indie, and more.
MOSHPIT and its predecessors (Daytrotter and Concert Vault) started with the acquisition in 2002 of legendary concert promoter Bill Graham’s proprietary catalog of live audio and video concert performances, many of which were recorded at the universally known Fillmore Auditorium, Fillmore West, Fillmore East and Winterland venues. In 2004 MOSHPIT added the King Biscuit catalog of nearly 2,000 high-end recordings and interviews from the 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s. Shortly thereafter, MOSHPIT acquired King Biscuit’s sister catalog, Silver Eagle Cross Country, which included nearly 1,000 mostly Country recordings from the 70s, 80s and 90s. In 2006, MOSHPIT added the Daytrotter catalog. From 2005 through 2026 Daytrotter recorded more than 8,000 live performances throughout the United States, Canada and England. Months later, MOSHPIT acquired the Paste Magazine catalog. In 2007 MOSHPIT acquired the massive Newport Jazz catalog, which included Jazz and Blues recordings that went back to the 1950s, and shortly thereafter acquired the Newport Folk catalog. Then, in 2010, MOSHPIT acquired the Metropolitan catalog which included more than 2,200 concert recordings from the late 70s, 80s, 90s and early 2000s which featured performances at the Capitol Theatre, The Ritz and many other east coast venues and festivals. After 2010, MOSHPIT added catalogs from the legendary studio The Record Plant, the mostly blues and folk Hudson Valley catalog, the Starfleet catalog, the Dawson Sound and Hewitt catalogs, Tramps – a seminal New York City venue, the Noise Pop and Heatwave festivals, the historically significant Ash Grove, the Jazz and Blues catalog from the Great American Music Hall and, lastly, the Amazingrace coffeehouse catalog.
As these concert recordings date from the 1950s and are, on average, 46 years old with many over 60 years old, the original source recording media type varies greatly, as does the manner in which the recording was made. MOSHPIT first cleaned and restored, as best as possible, the source media for each recording – for example, many tapes were baked to allow a fair transfer of the original recording. Second, MOSHPIT transferred each recording into the highest digital format possible. Third, the digital transfers were then mixed, if there were multi-track transfers, and then mastered. Fourth, the concerts were cut into tracks and each individual track/song was named. Lastly, the songs were uploaded to the MOSHPIT website.
MOSHPIT continues to acquire other catalogs and there will be several added in the coming months. There are very few performers or genres that are not represented in the MOSHPIT catalog. Please use search or browse the Performer, Catalog, Concert and Sessions and Interview links to find the performance you want to listen to. Or, just peruse the featured Concerts and Interviews noted on the MOSHPIT homepage. The MOSHPIT newsletter will be sent out twice weekly and will highlight new Featured Concerts and Interviews which will be added to the top of the Featured Concerts and Featured Interviews sections on the homepage.