Big Thief have launched the Big Thief Live Archive, with 10 fully mixed shows already uploaded to the platform today. Inspired by drummer James Krivchenia’s love of the Grateful Dead’s extensive catalog of live recordings, the collection includes sets from “the recent and distant past.” A new one will be added on the second Tuesday of every month, and the site allows fans to sort their favorite versions of songs into personalized playlists.
“Every show we play holds a different energy,” the band explained in a press release. “The songs are always changing and sound different every night, and we spend so much more time on the road than in studios, and so we felt a desire to create something that captures the ever-undulating aliveness of our music through time.”
The initial shows were recorded by the band’s front-of-house engineer Alice Wilder and monitor engineer Aleda Deroche and mixed by 4AD’s in-house engineer Fabian Prynn. Below, take a listen to a live take of Double Infinity‘s ‘Incomprehensible’, performed at 3Arena in Dublin on April 29 (and also a highlight of their Primavera Sound 2026 set a few weeks later).
