We are officially out of office for the US Memorial Day holiday and will return with a new post on Tuesday. In the meantime, I wanted to share with the community a stunning new archive of live music, spanning from the mid-1980s to the recent present. Aadam Jacobs, apparently a tireless music fan in Chicago, brought along his tape recorder to more than 10,000 live shows during the past five decades, and after being featured in a documentary, was approached by the Internet Archive to digitize and upload his collection of tapes. This is going to be a long-term project, and as of this writing, just over 2,700 shows have been added to the archive.

And oh my, what a collection! Highlights include a very early Nirvana show from 1989, the Replacements (including a Prince cover), Daydream Nation-era Sonic Youth, early Bjork with her band The Sugarcubes, REM (YouTube version below), and all kinds of fabulous obscurities like personal favorites Scruffy the Cat, Mojo Nixon, and Baby Flamehead. Neko Case, Rilo Kiley, Husker Du, The Jesus and Mary Chain, I could go on, but I guarantee you’ll find something here that will make your day.

David Crotty

David Crotty

David Crotty is the Executive Director of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press. Founded in 1933, CSHL Press is an internationally renowned publisher of books, journals, and electronic media, and is a division of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, an innovator in life science research and the education of scientists, students, and the public. Previously, David was a Senior Consultant at Clarke & Esposito, a boutique management consulting firm focused on strategic issues related to professional and academic publishing and information services. David was the Editorial Director, Journals Policy for Oxford University Press. He oversaw journal policy across OUP’s journals program, drove technological innovation, and served as an information officer. David acquired and managed a suite of research society-owned journals with OUP, and before that was the Executive Editor for Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, where he created and edited new science books and journals, along with serving as a journal Editor-in-Chief. He has served on the Board of Directors for the STM Association, the Society for Scholarly Publishing and CHOR, Inc., as well as The AAP-PSP Executive Council. David received his PhD in Genetics from Columbia University and did developmental neuroscience research at Caltech before moving from the bench to publishing.

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