DE-PLATFORMING MUSIC CONSUMPTION

Streaming music sucks, but it’s also so convenient and ubiquitous. Having access to music streaming means that any song I want from any era is constantly available.   

What that really means, though, is that choice paralysis freezes me from making any new choices—I effectively spin the same 10 records most of the time.   

A lot of my friends have tried to get off streaming […]

Aadam Jacobs Collection

https://radioblackout.org/podcast/aadam-jacobs-collection/

A Mad Undertaking. An undefinitive guide to the Aadam Jacobs Collection

https://voragine.net/link/a-mad-undertaking-an-undefinitive-guide-to-the-aadam-jacobs-collection

Huh. Quite the collection of live recordings. Chicago Tape Guy did 40 years of recording 10,000+ concerts. Raw, early-career sets from Nirvana (their 1989 Chicago debut!), R.E.M., The Cure, Sonic Youth, Bangles, Cardigans, Tracy Chapman, and Björk. Some good and interesting listening, reasonable quality for live recordings.

https://aadamjacobscollection.org/

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Chicago Reader: A private collection of 10,000 Chicago show tapes finds a public home. “Jacobs taped concerts for his own satisfaction. Though he sometimes shared his recordings with the musicians, even giving them copies for free, in most cases no one else heard them. … In 2023, the Chicago Underground Film Festival debuted a documentary about Jacobs by Katlin Schneider called Melomaniac. […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/01/08/chicago-reader-a-private-collection-of-10000-chicago-show-tapes-finds-a-public-home/