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Curating a FLAC Library That Will Outlive the Cloud

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100 Years of Music

From Dust Bowl blues to digital-age drill. A timeline of how sound shaped us.

Apr 20, 2025 · 5 min

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Vinyl vs. FLAC: It’s Not a War, It’s a Conversation

Apr 20, 2025 · 2 min

Westlake Recording Studios

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Documenting Sound: How ‘100 Years of Music’ Came to Life

Apr 20, 2025 · 2 min

In Rotation

2024Alligator Bites Never Heal

Alligator Bites Never Heal

Doechii

BLUE LIPS

ScHoolboy Q

2022Cheat Codes

Cheat Codes

Black Thought & Danger Mouse

Currents

Tame Impala

2024The Death of Slim Shady

The Death of Slim Shady

Eminem

2014Days Before Rodeo

Days Before Rodeo

Travis Scott

Reviews

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808s and Heartbreak Changed the Rap Landscape Forever

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Dec 21, 2023

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Graduation: Kanye West’s Masterpiece of Self-Actualization

Jamie Foxx with Kanye West

Dec 17, 2023

album

IGOR is not Your Father’s Hip-Hop Album

Tyler the Creator (52163761341) (cropped)

Jan 22, 2023

album

Call Me If You Get Lost

Dec 13, 2021

Playlists

TCM: Future

The essential Future playlist.

TCM: Eminem

The essential Eminem playlist.

TCM: Kendrick Lamar

The essential Kendrick Lamar playlist.

TCM: Mac Miller

The essential Mac Miller playlist.

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