About Record Tribe

Record Tribe gives anyone with a Discogs collection a free site of their own, where every record, musician, label, and decade links to the next. Connect your Discogs account, pick a name, and your collection becomes something you can wander through.

What you get

Your site lives at a name you choose, like jane.recordtribe.com, and is built from your Discogs collection. There is no key to paste and nothing to install or host. Every album and every musician gets a page, and the credits link them, so one click shows you every other record you own that a musician played on.

That is how records come back off the shelf. I knew Greg Leisz by name, but I had no idea he played on six of my records until my own site showed me. Albums I had not touched in years are getting played again.

You can also browse by decade, style, and label; see a map of how the musicians connect; get Apple Music previews; write about the records you love; and play a listening game with family and friends.

Discovery between collections

Every site is part of the network on recordtribe.com, so you can see who else owns your records. Find someone who shares many of them, then see what they have that you don’t. I didn’t plan for this, and it’s become one of my favorite parts. If you would rather not be listed, it is one checkbox.

Why I built it

I’m Corey Brown. When I shared Corey Spins, the site I built from my own collection, friends who use Discogs kept saying, “I wish I had something like that.” Most of them aren’t technical, so open-sourcing it wouldn’t have helped. Instead, I built a platform where anyone can sign up, and we handle the rest.

I have logged my records on Discogs since 2006, and I love the site and its community. Record Tribe is an extension of Discogs, not a replacement. You keep logging your records there, and your site keeps up.

It is free because community has always been the point for me. I ran No Treble, an online magazine for bass players, for 16 years, and we featured players the print magazines never would have. Record Tribe comes from the same place. My own site is corey.recordtribe.com.

Thank you

Thanks to the early members who tested Record Tribe before launch and showed me what my own collection could not. If you have a Discogs collection, create your site.