Rare concert recordings are landing on the Internet Archive

Article

• Thousands of audience-recorded concert tapes being digitized and uploaded to Internet Archive
• Covers decades of bootleg recordings, especially punk/indie from the 80s-90s underground
• Preservation effort by volunteers converting analog tapes to digital files

Discussion

• Commenters marveled at tape fidelity surpassing expectations for audience recordings
• Block Club Chicago article linked as better source than the TechCrunch piece
• Relisten.net flagged as another repo, skewing toward jam bands
• Concern about Internet Archive’s stability; calls for decentralized IPFS backup

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