ABOUT NUGS.NET
Music service provider nugs.net enterprises offers a turn-key solution for
online music distribution. The nugs.network currently delivers music downloads
for over 500 artists including Metallica,
Phish, Smashing Pumpkins, The Grateful Dead, Widespread Panic, as well as the nations's premiere festivals like Bonnaroo Music Festival, Austin City Limits Music Festival, and Lollapalooza. Private label
websites within the nugs.network include LivePhish.com, LiveMetallica.com,
LiveWidespreadPanic.com, LiveDownloads.com,
LiveCheese.com, and the free music channel at stash.nugs.net. Moreover, nugs.net offers super distribution through iTunes, Virgin Mobile, Musictoday, and IODA.
To date nugs.net has served over 50 million paid downloads. More than 50,000 users each month listen to nugs.net
Internet radio and download monthly podcasts from
nugs.net live music archives.
Each week nugs.net founder Brad Serling features the latest live music on "The Weekly Live Stash" on SiriusXM's JamOn channel.
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PRIVATE LABEL BAND-TO-FAN CHANNELS
PHISH
Launched in December 2002, the groundbreaking Live Phish Downloads service set
the standard for private label, direct band-to-fan online live music
distribution. No band had ever before offered every note that they play for
download within 48 hours of each performance. Fans flocked to the service
immediately, and Phish responded by offering more shows from the Phish Archives
and from solo projects by Trey Anastasio, Mike Gordon, and Vida Blue. In
another unprecedented turn of events, Phish announced that they would donate
all of the 2004 Phish net profits from Live Phish Downloads to their charity,
The Mockingbird Foundation.
Phish outsourced their entire online music distribution business to nugs.net,
including e-commerce, user registration and authentication, web site hosting,
content delivery, encoding, live concert recording, post-production, customer
support, and royalty reporting.
>>If you are interested in a private label download service like
livephish.com, please contact our staff.
METALLICA
Metallica teamed up with nugs,net, the leader in live concert downloads, to
provide downloads of every concert from their Madly In Anger With The World 2004 tour .Virtually every note the band has performed live since 2004 is available as MP3 and lossless
FLAC downloads. In 2009 nugs.net developed an iPhone App for Live Metallica allowing fans to stream the latest Metallica show for free as well as access every show they've ever purchased on LiveMetallica.com via their iPhones, iPads or iPod Touch. Fans can also purchase downloads of the shows they are at from within the venue on their iPhones.
>>If you are interested in a private label download service like
LiveMetallica.com, please contact our staff.
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DAVE MATTHEWS BAND
Dave Matthews was one of the few major artists who never released his music to
any of the music download services, opting instead to partner with nugs.net to
create his own private label download service. As part of an agreement between
Musictoday and nugs.net, Dave Matthews and many of Musictoday's clients now
offer album and concert downloads via the Musictoday storefront and the nugs.network
digital fulfillment platform.
>>If you are interested in a private label download service like
davematthewsband.com, please contact our staff.
WIDESPREAD PANIC
Upon their return to the road after a 15 month hiatus, Widespread Panic teamed
up with nugs.net to launch LiveWidespreadPanic.com. Nearly every Widespread Panic show since 2005 is available for download as well as on CD.
Panic bass player Dave Schools says, "We have always tried to provide our fans with what they want, so due to the
overwhelming demand for tickets to the Atlanta Fox concerts we thought making
these recordings available for free for a short period of time would be a great
way to satisfy that demand. This also allows us to begin the process of
fulfilling another top priority fan desire which is making high quality
recordings of Panic shows available to everyone quickly and efficiently. We
look forward to a fruitful relationship with nugs.net this spring and, as
always, we count on fan input for positive direction with this service."
>>If you are interested in a private label download service like
LiveWidespreadPanic.com, please contact our staff.
THE STRING CHEESE INCIDENT
A pioneer in direct-to-fan sales of their live concerts, The String Cheese Incident has been releasing every concert they play
since 2002. SCI Fidelity Records partnered with nugs.net to distribute every concert as MP3 and FLAC downloads, as well as custom on demand
CDs. Over 350 String Cheese concerts are available at LiveCheese.com.
>>If you are interested in a private label download and CD service like
LiveCheese.com, please contact our staff.
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MULTI-ARTIST CHANNELS
THE NUGS.NET STASH
One of the most popular outlets for free live music, the nugs.net stash
delivers over 3 million downloads a month to 750,000 users. Moreover, 50,000
users each month listen to nugs.net radio, a 24/7 stream from nugs.net's
extensive archives. Artists featured in the nugs.net stash include The Grateful Dead,
Phish, Widespread Panic, The String Cheese Incident, Bruce Hornsby, and Little
Feat. Over 300 full length concerts are available for free download. From its
inception, nugs.net has been dedicated to the distribution of FREE music. All
of the music on nugs.net is available thanks to the artists who send in tapes
from their archives to be featured on nugs.net, and the community of tapers who
capture and share their recordings of live shows.
LIVEDOWNLOADS.COM
Debuting New Year’s Eve 2003, LiveDownloads.com is a premium channel offering
downloads of live concerts and albums, as well as live CDs from selected artists.
Artists and labels can use the LiveDownloads.com channel's custom suite of
tools and scalable infrastructure to immediately offer music and video
downloads of their choice directly to their fans. LiveDownloads.com currently
features over 4000 concerts and albums from over 500 artists.
>>To distribute your artist or label's music on LiveDownloads.com,
please contact our staff.
LIVEBONNAROO.COM
The Bonnaroo Music Festival, held each year in Manchester, TN, drew 90,000
music lovers from all over the world in June of 2004 and again in 2005. Over 80 artists
performed, ranging from Dave Matthews to Trey Anastasio to The Dead and Bob
Dylan. Bonnaroo partnered with nugs.net and Musictoday to create
LiveBonnaroo.com, a private-label download service offering high quality
downloads of many of the performances from Bonnaroo. Multitrack recordings
culled from six stages were mixed by Third Wave Productions on a 24 hour
production schedule in four live mix rooms backstage throughout the weekend.
Upon final mix approval from each artist, nugs.net mastered and encoded each
performance and published the music for download on LiveBonnaroo.com. Among the
30 participating artists were Dave Matthews & Friends, The Dead, Galactic,
My Morning Jacket, Del McCoury, and the North Mississippi Allstars Hill Country
Review.
>>If you are interested in a private label download service
like livebonnaroo.com, please
contact our staff.
LIVE LOLLAPALOOZA
Capital Sports and Entertainment, producers of the annual Lollapalooza
music festival in Chicago's Grant Park, partnered with nugs.net
to distribute live recordings from each year's festival. Artists
hand-picked the live tracks from their sets and nugs.net distributed
their music through iTunes as well as through the Live Lollapalooza
web site. Nugs.net handles all aspects of the music distribution
from the festival, from aggregating the live recordings to mastering,
encoding, uploading to third party download stores like iTunes,
and managing all royalty administration from music publishing
to artist and label payments.
>>If you are interested in a private label download service
like livelollapalooza.com, please
contact our staff.
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NUGS.NET SERVICES
• Direct band-to-fan music distribution
• Highly focused live music channel sales through LiveDownloads.com
• Super Distribution through iTunes and other DSPs
• iPhone App development
• On demand CD production and fulfillment services
• Private label music channels (for example, http://www.livephish.com)
• Consulting services
• Music and video encoding
• Video On Demand and Pay-Per-View streams and downloads
• Custom Digital Rights Management (DRM) solutions
• Subscription services for content on demand channels
• Internet radio development and deployment
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NUGS.NET IN THE PRESS
VIDEO PODCAST
• NOTMTV.COM June 2006 Interview with Brad Serling (70MB Quicktime)
ARTICLES
• Rolling Stone
12/20/02
• Wired 1/25/03
• The New York Times
8/7/03
• USA Today 8/5/03
• Rolling Stone
11/7/03
• Boston Globe
11/30/03
• The New York Times
1/22/04
• Forbes 5/24/04
• The Philadelphia
Inquirer 9/21/06
• Pitchfork
9/28/06
• The Absolute
Sound 2/1/07
• Rolling Stone 2/20/07
• Hittin' The Note July 2010 (see http://www.hittinthenote.com/current_issue.asp for the current issue of Hittin' The Note)
PRESS RELEASES
• LivePhish.com 12/20/02
• LiveDownloads.com
1/7/04
• LiveMetallica.com
3/2/04
• LiveWidespreadPanic.com 3/16/05
• Union Justice & Confidence:
A nugs.net Benefit Album for New Orleans Musicians 11/28/05
• Live Phish Video 1/5/06
• ThePhiladelphiaOrchestra.com
9/21/06
• LiveLollapalooza.com
10/21/06
• Music For The Planet: A nugs.net Benefit for Rock The Earth 4/18/07
• LiveBlackCrowes.com 3/17/08
• Metallica Launches iPhone Application To Stream Shows From Current Tour 10/12/09
• Live Phish App Debuts As #1 Paid Music App On The iTunes Store 6/16/10
• Jerry Jams For Rex:Phish, Bruce Hornsby, Strring Cheese Offer Versions of Live Songs to Benefit Rex Foundation 8/9/10
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In addition to founding and operating nugs.net, Brad most
recently served for three years as Chief Technology Officer for CinemaNow (http://www.cinemanow.com),
the leading provider of online video on demand and pay-per-view services of
Hollywood feature films. At CinemaNow Brad conceived, developed, and deployed
PatchBay, a platform for digital media distribution which currently powers the
secure global delivery of millions of feature-length video streams and
downloads per month. Currently Warner Brothers, Sony, MGM, Fox, and Disney all
distribute their films through the platform Brad architected. Before joining
CinemaNow Brad served as vice president of interactive development for
AnswerThink (formerly THINK New Ideas). During his employment with AnswerThink,
Brad was responsible for the online components of global advertising and
marketing campaigns for such clients as Anheuser-Busch, IBM, HBO, Procter &
Gamble, NFL, Chrysler, Oracle, and BMI. Prior to AnswerThink, Brad served as
Executive Producer at Adam Curry's On Ramp, Inc., where he pioneered web events for
Woodstock 94, The Molson Ice Polar Beach Party with Metallica and Hole, The
37th Annual Grammy Awards, and eleven World Series webcasts. His experience has
spanned all aspects of website development, live webcasting, multimedia content
deployment, and large scale media distribution. Brad earned a B.A. in history
from Cornell University.
You can hear what Brad's up to each week on SiriusXM's Jam On channel, where he hosts "The Weekly Live Stash," showcasing music performed in the past week.