I Relived One Of the Best Concerts I’ve Ever Been To for $12 on Veeps

By Angela Tricarico
Published June 11, 2024, 12:07 p.m. ET
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Concerts are often an ephemeral experience, right? You show up and for one night, you have an experience that’s uniquely yours — one that can’t be experienced in that singular way ever again.

Sometimes, though, you get lucky — and that’s where Veeps comes in. The live music streaming platform, founded by twin brothers and members of Good Charlotte Joel and Benji Madden, is backed by Live Nation.

It offers both one-night-only virtual tickets to experience concert livestreams (with playback available for roughly a week after the stream date) and a monthly Veeps All-Access plan ($11.99/month) that gives subscribers, well… all-access… to the platform’s archived concert streams, comedy shows, and original series, like Artist Friendly with Joel Madden. New shows are added to the platform weekly from some of the biggest artists out there.

Put simply: if you love music, Veeps just may be the best streaming service you’ve never heard of.

It’ll give you the ability to experience gigs you may have missed, see tours that didn’t stop by your area, and check out older shows from artists you’ve recently become a fan of. And sometimes, you’ll even get the chance to relive an experience you thought you’d only have once, if you were lucky enough to be at a show filmed for Veeps.

It’s one thing to watch back grainy cell phone video you may have taken, but another entirely to be able to stream the very show you were at in HD with multiple camera angles and crowd reaction shots.

That’s how I first became aware of Veeps; I attended Fall Out Boy’s So Much For (2our) Dust at Madison Square Garden back in March, then was able to watch the exact show I was at on Veeps last weekend.

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Photo: Veeps All Access

The show took my Fall Out Boy fandom to another level, because I tend to go all in on my new obsessions and that certainly happened after (2our) Dust. Getting to watch the show all over again with the friend who brought me along in March and a deeper knowledge of the setlist; and being able to actually see our friends within the crowd shots is priceless to me, but when forced to put a price tag on it — $12 isn’t so bad, right?

The quality is great, the website and app are so easy to use, and I got to watch it from the couch — what’s better than that?

With a Veeps All Access subscription, you’ll also have access to streams for a longer period after the initial air date (for Fall Out Boy, it’s nearly a year, rather than the seven days for people who purchased a ticket just for the stream), so you’ll be able watch and rewatch as often as you’d like within that time.

How Much Does Veeps Cost?

If you’re planning on using Veeps to buy passes to individual streams, rather than the monthly all-access, the price will vary by artist. This Fall Out Boy show was $11.99, but we’ve seen artists like the Postal Service and Death Cab for Cutie priced at $17.99.

The Veeps All Access subscription, which includes all 500+ live events currently on the platform plus everything new, costs $11.99/month or $120/year.

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What Else Can I Watch on Veeps?

Nearly every genre of music is represented on Veeps.

In the same emo-pop-punk world as Fall Out Boy, you can check out streams from Something Corporate, Bayside, and the upcoming live stream of Say Anything’s Is A Real Boy: 20th Anniversary Tour.

Classic rock fans can check out shows from The Who, Aerosmith, and The Rolling Stones, while country fans will be able to watch up and coming star Lainey Wilson alongside shows from Shania Twain, Darius Rucker, and Dierks Bentley.

Of course, there’s tons of other genres, artists, and streams to check out, including Alicia Keys, Childish Gambino, Vampire Weekend, and Coldplay.

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