“Chicago-based #music superfan Aadam Jacobs has been #recording the concerts he attends since the 1980s, amassing an archive of over 10,000 tapes. Now 59, Jacobs knows that these #cassettes are going to degrade over time, so he agreed to let volunteers from the Internet Archive, the nonprofit digital library, digitize the tapes.”

https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/13/thousands-of-rare-concert-recordings-are-landing-on-the-internet-archive-listen-now/

Thousands of rare concert recordings are landing on the Internet Archive -- listen now | TechCrunch

Chicago-based music superfan Aadam Jacobs has been recording the concerts he goes to since the 1980s, amassing an archive of over 10,000 tapes.

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11 tapes added today!

Good to see the YYYY-MM-DD format being used on recordings that were made as far back as 1984-05-27 :-)