Crate View
Get Into It.
- Browse everything you own, cover by cover
- Hand it to guests — let them flip through your collection
- Prop your iPad on the rack — it becomes a now playing display, pulling up the story behind whatever's spinning
- Connects to your Discogs collection — your albums, your data, automatically
The pressing details. The session notes. The reason this record matters. Your collection, finally alive.
Free · Designed for iPad
On a computer? Scan this with your iPad's camera to install it there.
Wax Scout · Coming to iOS
Find the Dig.
Wherever You Land.
The best record shops near you, ranked by what you actually collect, with an alert the second you land somewhere new.
- The Dig Score — every shop scored against your taste. A jazz digger and a hip-hop head see completely different rankings for the same store
- City Radar — land in Tokyo, drive through Berlin, and a ranked shop list hits your lock screen before you open the app
- Proximity alerts — walk or drive within a few blocks of a shop worth your time and your phone says so, before you wander past the best bins in town
- Trip planner — pick your shops in any city and get an optimised multi-stop route, straight into Apple Maps, Google Maps, or Waze
- Collector profile — log check-ins, earn badges, and level up from Curious Listener to Legend. Every shop you visit counts
- Shop owners can post a haul — when new stock hits the racks, push it straight to the diggers nearby who collect that genre. A shop owner admin view is on the way, so shops can manage their own listing
Free on iPhone · No account required
Wax Scout · City Radar
Tokyo just entered the chat.
6 shops ranked for you. Disk Union Shinjuku is 0.3 mi away.
Wax Scout · Nearby
The bins are calling your name.
Amoeba Records is 0.2 mi away. Your Dig Score: 9.1.
Wax Scout · Fresh Haul
Someone just scored big.
Turntable Lab posted new Jazz arrivals. Get there first.
RigShot
Stop Typing.
Start Showing.
- Upload your setup photo — drag, drop, or shoot straight from your camera roll
- Drop pins on your gear — turntable, amp, cart, cables, all of it. Add the name, description, price, and a link for each piece
- Add your affiliate link — on Reverb, Discogs, or Amazon Associates? Drop your link in. Every visitor who clicks and buys puts money in your pocket
- One link. Forever. — share it in your bio, forum posts, YouTube description. Never type out your rig again
- Save and update anytime — sign in and your rigs live in your account. New turntable? Swap the pin. Same link, always current
VinylVsVinyl
Not all pressings
are equal.
Compare two pressings of the same record side by side. Matrix details, label variants, community ratings. Find the one worth owning.
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Free Stuff
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No email required. No catch. Just good stuff for people who love records.
3D Print FilesNew Arrivals Light Box
Print it. Plug it in. Watch your rack go from good to great.
Download free →Needs a light strip — we use this one: Led Light Strip (not an affiliate link, just the one that works)
Coming to iOS
Good things coming.
Two apps. Built for the serious listener. Be first.
TUBE HOURS
Coming to iOS
Log every hour. Know exactly when to retube.
OBI STRIP
Coming to iOS
Every Japanese pressing. Every detail. In your pocket.
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Chalino Sánchez, a Death Note, and the Gunfight That Made a Legend
Elijah Wald
Chalino Sánchez was handed a note onstage in Culiacán, Sinaloa on May 15, 1992. The next morning he was found dead in an irrigation canal. The grainy clip of that moment, the "death note" video, has millions of views, and our guest doesn't believe it's what the internet says it is.
Elijah Wald wrote Dylan Goes Electric, the basis for the Oscar-nominated A Complete Unknown. He also hitchhiked across Mexico with a guitar and wrote Narcocorrido, the first book to track down the corrido songwriters themselves.
We get into what a corrido actually is, how Prohibition-era smuggling turned it into the narcocorrido, the Coachella shootout that made Chalino a legend before the murder made him a martyr, and why kids in LA compared him to Eazy-E while writers reached for Tupac.
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