The Aadam Jacobs Collection

“Chicago guy starts recording concerts with a tape recorder in 1989 and proceeds to do multiple shows a week. Now, he has a stockpile of over 10,000 live concert tapes across multiple decades and they are being uploaded to the internet archive by volunteers. Absolute hero ball”

“Literally thousands of recorded live shows, from as far back as 1984, by Nirvana, R.E.M., Fugazi, the Cure, the Replacements, Sonic Youth, Pavement, Hüsker Dü, They Might Be Giants, Liz Phair, Guided by Voices, Belle & Sebastian, the Flaming Lips...I mean, I’ll stop there, but that’s just scratching the surface of what’s in here (seriously, it’s nuts). They’re both streamable and downloadable from the Internet Archive in a variety of formats.”

“Nirvana, 1989; Pavement 1992; Replacements 1986- 2nd best thing to having been there yourself.”