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He recorded 10,000 concerts on tape, now they’re streaming for free

Summary by KTLA 5
The music collection of a 59-year-old Chicago man who attended more than 10,000 concerts and recorded each one on cassette tape is slowly being digitized and released online for free. Like many GenX kids, Aadam Jacobs used cassette tapes to record music off the radio, but it wasn’t until 1984 that he met someone who [...]

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A huge collection of cassettes recorded by a Chicago superfan since the 1980s is being digitized by Internet Archive volunteers. The project has already released some 2,500 recordings, including rare concerts and previously unknown records of alternative and punk rock key bands. *** Aadam Jacobs accumulated more than 10,000 tapes recording concerts since the 1980s. Internet Archive has already published about 2,500 digitized cassettes, including…

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KTLA 5 broke the news in Los Angeles, United States on Monday, April 13, 2026.
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