KCRW vs Three Albums

Your shortcut to the music, shows, and city you love. The KCRW app is your home for in-depth journalism, community storytelling, and free music discovery. Stream live, catch up on shows, and hear real-time Now Playing. New in this version: Explore LA. Discover events, places, and cultural picks curated by KCRW, browse hand-picked collections from local experts, and see what's happening near you on an interactive map. Bookmark your favorites to revisit or share, and keep all your member perks in one place. With livestreams including Dance24 and Vintage24, member perks in your pocket, and now a curated guide to the city, there's more to discover than ever.

Every Sunday you pick three albums. Until the next Sunday, they are the only three this app will play. That's the whole thing. You search Apple Music, pull sleeves into the crate, set three on the counter and seal them. Sealed means sealed. No swap, no undo, no fourth album behind a menu. Choosing is the hard part, and Sunday is the only day you have to do it. The rest of the week you listen. Side two gets a chance. The slow one in the middle stops being the track you skip. By Thursday you know the record instead of recognising it. Then the week ends and you get a receipt: what you played, how long you listened, the track you kept going back to. The shelf empties. You choose again. You already have Apple Music streaming. What it adds is the one thing a streaming app will never give you: a limitation. Once a week you can hand one of your three to someone, with a note on the slip. They find it in their crate on Sunday. One notification a week, on Sunday, to tell you the week is over. Requires an active Apple Music subscription. Three Albums streams from the Apple Music catalog. It doesn't own or sell any music.