Internet Archive — Max Creek Live Music Archive
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Bootleg Legends: the Most-Downloaded Live Concert Recordings on Archive.org
The Live Music Archive is one of the Internet Archive's greatest gifts to music culture: a library of tens of thousands of audience and soundboard recordings, uploaded by the tapers who made them and freely shared with anyone who wants to listen. These bands authorised the recordings. The audience members who made them gave them away. The Archive hosts them forever. What emerges from this collection is a portrait of American jam and indie rock built entirely from live performance — music that exists to be shared, that changes every night, that only becomes real in the moment between the band and the room.
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