Starting in 1984 and up until recently, Aadam Jacobs brought tape recorders to thousands of indie, rock and punk shows, ...

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

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 ...

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.

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

For decades, one man quietly documented Chicago’s live music scene with an intensity that few noticed at the time but many are recognising now. Aadam Jacobs, known as the city’s “tape guy”, recorded ...