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886 Thousands of Rare Concert Recordings Are Landing On the Internet Archive

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 04/14/2026 14:00 EDT

Thousands of Rare Concert Recordings Are Landing On the Internet Archive

A Chicago concert superfan Aadam Jacobs who has recorded more than 10,000 shows since the 1980s is working with Internet Archive volunteers to digitize the collection before the cassettes deteriorate. "So far, about 2,500 of these tapes have been posted on the Internet Archive, including some rare gems like a Nirvana performance from 1989," reports TechCrunch. From the report: For many of these recordings, Jacobs was using pretty mediocre equipment, but the volunteer audio engineers working with the Interne

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