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IA Live Music (etree)

The Internet Archive's live music collection (etree) holds legal taper recordings of live concerts. It is searchable through the Archive's keyless search API, so results appear directly in our search as well as on archive.org. The place to look for recordings of a band's past shows.

Video / audio / music API

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Why it’s useful & how it works

The Live Music Archive (etree) is the internet's largest community of concert tapers and the first place to look for a recording of a specific band's past show. Only artists who have explicitly permitted taping and trading are represented, so the recordings are fully legal to download and share. You can search by band name, venue, or date on archive.org; Echo queries the collection and links you directly to matching shows.

What’s inside

Over 250,000 concert recordings from thousands of taper-friendly artists, taking up more than 250 terabytes of storage. The collection passed the quarter-million mark in mid-2023 and continues to grow at roughly 30 new shows per day.

API access

IA advancedsearch collection:etree

What we measured

Our own probes, not the archive’s own claims. Re-run periodically; every reading below is dated.

Reachability

Direct request: Responded HTTP 200 230 ms
Through a datacenter proxy: Responded HTTP 200 926 ms
API, direct: Responded HTTP 200 819 ms
API, through a proxy: Responded HTTP 200 1.1 s

Did a real search return anything?

Returned results · 44979 results for the sample query · median 1.7 s · stable across runs

Sample query: Leftover Salmon Live at Dead of Summer Music Festival on 2026-07-12

Benchmark coverage

Found 7 of 8 test items (88%) in the Video / audio / music cluster. Median response 807 ms.

By how well known the item is: 2/2 well-known, 4/4 mid, 1/2 obscure .

One item it found: Widespread Panic Live at Red Rocks Amphitheater on 2017-06-24

Reachability measured 2026-08-22. Search checked 2026-08-22. Benchmark run 2026-08-22.