Toward the end of every year, social feeds overflow with Spotify Wrapped flexes—colorful, curated snapshots of our year in music. But I'm too impatient to wait that long. There's an easier, better way ...

For as long as we’ve been making music, we’ve been using it as a way to communicate with others. Before the advent of recording, we performed our music face-to-face. Soon, physical music on vinyl, ...