Longtime readers of this column will recall that, back in October/November 2020, I discussed the many benefits of nugs.net, a top-shelf streaming site offering multiple-thousands of soundboard-quality streams and downloads from a horde of name artists. I admired how nugs.net had been able to bring live-show listening (and viewing!) into the hi-res arena where it rightly belongs. Don't get me wrong-I love my bootleg collection to no end, but if I can a) get better-SQ versions of live gigs that are directly artist-approved, and b) obtain them in such a way that benefits those artists more directly financially, even better. And that's where nugs.net shines like practically no other site can.
Since that 2020 column, I've continued enjoying the scope of nugs.net offerings whenever I can-perhaps even more exponentially so of late, given how my personal live-gig attendance has become relatively sparse (by my standards) during the pandemic era. With all that in mind, I figured it was high time to deliver an official nugs.net redux-or "redug," if you will to let you know if the site has been able to keep up with the high-quality demands of discerning listeners/viewers like ourselves.
This story is from the August - September 2022 edition of Sound & Vision.
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