A time machine of Chicago concerts is now online

For decades, Aadam Jacobs obsessively documented Chicago’s indie rock scene. He was a fixture at local venues, recording shows religiously in the 80s, 90s and beyond. For a while, the future of Jacobs’ personal archive was uncertain… much of it lived in his home, on shelves or in boxes… and tape *quality* degrades over time. But over the past few years … a team of volunteer audio archivists began converting the recordings to digital formats and releasing them to the public.