For the “wait, listen to this part” people
Start a listening club with friends. Each round has a theme: bring a song, listen to the club's picks, and vote for your favourites. Leave with new music and the stories behind it.
The listening club · Round 08
Choose a track. Read its story.
01 / 03Mara's listening note
“The piano caught me first. Then the whole room went quiet. Ten minutes, and not one of them needs trimming.”
An imagined round. Your club supplies the rabbit holes.
A small belief about music
AuxArena is a listening club, not a taste contest. A prompt gives everyone a different door into the music; the shared playlist shows you where they wandered.
Come curious. Bring something you love. Hear it through someone else.
Passed by a friend · Not an algorithm
The algorithmic feed // Metric match
42,918,041 plays · 84% acoustic match · Auto-queued because you skipped track 4
Mara's liner note · 01:00 AM
“My older brother played this on a desert road trip in 2018. I shared it with the club at 1:00 AM. Now whenever it rains, four of us text each other.”
Nina Simone · Sinnerman (10:19)
One prompt. A roomful of rabbit holes.
“Songs for night buses.” “A beautiful song with an unhinged bridge.” The right prompt is an invitation to dig, not a genre checkbox.
The club owner sets the theme and the deadline.
“Songs for night buses”
Find your song, choose the listening link you prefer, and add a note if there is a story behind it. Obvious favourites and left-field finds are equally welcome.
Clubs can allow more than one song per person.
Talking Heads · 4:56
Listen and vote with names hidden. When voting closes, find out who brought each song and read the stories behind their choices.
Keep talking in your club's conversation.
Talking Heads · This Must Be the Place
“For dancing in the kitchen before anyone else is awake. It still sounds like being exactly where you should be.”
Two ballots. Two good arguments.
Spotlight puts your top songs in order. Tier List lets you place every song from S to F. The club picks the format when the round starts; the reveal does the rest.
The podium
Put a few favourites in order. First place gets the most points, the next gets fewer, and the club’s Headliner emerges at the reveal.
Try the ballot
The whole board
Give every song a home from S to F. Build your board as you listen, then see where the club lands at the reveal.
Try the board
Drag a song, or pick it and choose a tier.
Never scored
Keep a little love outside the scoring. Applaud a discovery, a perfect fit for the theme, or a song that made you smile.
Optional · Never scored
Keep a thought with the song. Notes stay yours while voting is open and join the reveal with the music.
Yours until the reveal
AuxArenaClub pass · 08
An open invitation
If a listening club sounds like your kind of thing, make one. If not, keep sharing songs anyway.
Example invite link
auxarena.com/join/midnight-radio