Corey Spins is a music discovery site built from one record collection: the 1,109 vinyl records on the shelf in my family room, and every musician, song, genre, decade, and label connected to them. It is not a store, and it is not a streaming service. It is a way to wander through a collection the way I did as a kid, one record leading to the next.
How to use it
Start with something you love. An album, a musician, a genre, a decade, a label. Press play on any album and the music keeps going while you browse. Click a musician in the credits, and you will see every other record in the collection they played on, which is how you end up somewhere you did not expect. The Explore page draws that as a map: albums and musicians fanning out from wherever you start.
The Login link is for my family. We have a leaderboard for who has listened to the most records this week, this month, and all time, plus a Love button to build a list to come back to. Visitors can browse everything without an account.
Where the records came from
I have been collecting records for over 40 years. As a kid, I read the liner notes, noted the musicians, and went back to the record store to flip through the bins looking for their names on other records. That was my music discovery. Corey Spins works the same way.
I have logged every record I bought into Discogs since 2006, and the site reads that collection through the Discogs API. When I add a record, it shows up here within the hour, along with every new musician and connection that comes with it. The site grows every time I buy a record.
The writing
Corey Spins started in 2019 as a blog about records I love, and those posts live here. When I have written about a record, the album page says so. The best of them is a conversation with Peter Erskine about Weather Report's Night Passage, an album that matters more to me than almost any other. I had theories about why it was recorded the way it was, and he told me things I never would have guessed. If I never write another post, that one alone was worth keeping the writing here.
I hope to write more, from time to time.
Who made it
I am Corey Brown. I founded No Treble, an online magazine for bass players, and ran it for 16 years. I co-founded Squidoo with Seth Godin in 2005. I built Bassists.com, a music discovery site for bass players, and Corey Spins is the second site to come out of the same idea.
I have been building things on the web since 1995, and I wrote a book called The Expert Prompt about working with AI.
Corey Spins version 2 was scoped over three weeks and built with Claude Code in a night; the full story is on my blog.
Thanks for listening.