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.

Seven years ago, I interviewed Aadam Jacobs about his astonishing collection of 10,000 local concert recordings that spanned four decades and filled large swaths of his Northwest Side home. At the ...

The music collection of a 59-year-old Chicago man who attended more than 10,000 concerts and recorded them on cassette tapes ...

On July 8, 1989, a young music fan named Aadam Jacobs, with a compact Sony cassette recorder in his pocket, went to see an up-and-coming rock band from Washington for their debut show in Chicago.

It’s hard to blame him: after 40 years and over 10,000 shows, it’s no wonder a few performances have fallen through the cracks. Luckily for the beneficiaries of Jacobs’s labor of love, though, his ...

A music fan from Chicago taped thousands of concerts over four decades. These recordings are now being uploaded to an online ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chicago-based music superfan Aadam Jacobs has been recording the concerts he attends since the 1980s, amassing an archive of over ...

In 1989, an up-and-coming rock band from Washington called Nirvana played in Chicago for the first time at a club called Dreamerz.