A healthy slice of Chicago concert history is waiting for you to devour it.

Every couple of months another news outlet or two discovers the growing archive of online concert recordings made in Chicago by longtime taper Aadam Jacobs. This is a good thing! I would often run into Aadam at shows, and his collection is vast, offering tons of well known bands in earlier days and in smaller venues, while also providing a nice slice of local talent that perhaps never hit it big, but were still important parts of our ever evolving music scene. 

There's a couple shows I booked at various venues in there, and even a few from my time as talent buyer at The Note have even started to show up!* (You can hear The Note sets from America's #1 Sweetheart before I joined the band, Wes Hollywood in his imperial phase, or a raucous The Amazing Kill-O-Watts show. I'm hoping the Yum Yum show I booked eventually shows up too, since Sweetheart and Wes recordings were from that show as well.)

Also, I've been looking for this Pavement show I saw at Double Door for forever! Plus that first Empty Bottle Polyphonic Spree show was pretty great so I look forward to listening to that too.* 

Anyway, if you want to hoover up tons of great concerts from Chicago coursing through the '90s and aughts, prepare to gorge yourself!

And if you'd like to know more about the archival project overall, this is a great place to start.

*Quite honestly, I took seeing Aadam show up at The Note back as a sign I was on the right track, booking good music, and successfully broadening the venue's appeal enough to bring in the previously skeptical rock and indie crowds...

**I just dug up an old post to make sure I had the date right and in it I mention "I'm in love with the choir girl with the dark straight hair." and I wonder who that was?! And I reviewed the show here!