SONG.ZERO
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System online// Vol · I · Tielman Brothers// Curated archive// Curator-reviewed

The family tree behind every song.

Every song is the end of a long line of influence. Song Zero is the liner notes for the streaming age — read the story behind a track, trace the roots that fed it, then discover the bands flying in the same orbit.

// modern liner notes. cultural lineage. fact-checked. curator-reviewed.

browse the archive →trace your own song// see vol.01 first ↗
// how each volume is researched — 9 stages● 155 published
01
Anchor research
Canonical artist, title, year.
MusicBrainz
02
Branch mapping
Musical roots and branches.
MusicBrainz
03
Track selection
~12 picks across branches.
Spotify
04
Per-track research
Multi-source dossier per track.
Wikipedia · Discogs
05
Fact-check
Independent verification.
Fact Check · AudioDB
06
Editorial blurbs
Written paragraph per track.
Editorial
07
Spotify playlist
Real, listenable order.
Spotify API
08
Family tree
Interactive SVG + framing prose.
Custom SVG
09
Curator review
Human approval before publishing.
Editorial desk

// inside a song zero

4 FEATURED · ROTATES EVERY 8s

// genealogyFOUNTAINS OF WAYNE

// playlist

// anchor

Fountains Of Wayne

Hey Julie · 2003

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// archive

155 ENTRIES · CURATED

155 entries

// how it works

9 STAGES · ~4 MIN · DETERMINISTIC

[STAGE 01] INPUT

Enter any song.

Choose your anchor track. Any song, any genre, any era. Set how wide you want the genealogy — 5 to 30 tracks across roots and branches.

[STAGE 02–08] EXECUTE

Watch it build.

A 9-stage research process cross-references influence relationships across MusicBrainz, Discogs, and Wikipedia, fact-checks every claim, and drafts historical blurbs — each reviewed by a human curator before publication.

[STAGE 09] DELIVERY

Get your genealogy.

An interactive visualization. A Spotify playlist. Per-track blurbs written like liner notes. Share the link or submit it for the curated archive.

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// pipeline stages
8+
// apis cross-referenced
✓
// fact-checked
✓
// curator-reviewed

// pricing

FREE TO TRY · 4 TIERS · PAY-PER-RUN

Solo plan — $9 per monthCurator plan — $14 per month// recommendedPower plan — $29 per monthPro plan — $79 per month

// pay per genealogy — 3 sizes × 3 quality tiers, $1.49 — $9.99

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What is Song Zero?

Song Zero is a tool that traces a song's musical genealogy — the chain of styles, scenes, and recordings that produced it. You submit an anchor track, and a multi-stage research process assembles an editorial article with an interactive family tree of its influences, a curated Spotify playlist, and cited sources. Every published volume is fact-checked against multiple music databases and reviewed by a human curator before it goes live.

What is Song Zero?

Song Zero is a tool that traces a song's musical genealogy — the chain of styles, scenes, and recordings that produced it. You submit an anchor track, and a multi-stage research process assembles an editorial article — an interactive family tree of its influences, a curated Spotify playlist, and cited sources — which a human curator reviews and approves before it is published.

What is a musical genealogy?

A musical genealogy is a family tree of a song’s influences: the genres, regional scenes, and earlier recordings that fed into it, drawn as branches that converge on the anchor track. Each branch represents one lineage (for example Delta Blues or Jamaican Ska), and convergence points mark where those lineages merge.

What is an anchor track?

The anchor track is the song you submit. Song Zero constructs the genealogy backwards from it, tracing the styles and recordings that led to that song rather than the ones it later influenced.

How does Song Zero research a song’s influences?

A nine-stage pipeline runs anchor research, branch mapping, per-track research, an independent fact-check pass, editorial blurb writing, Spotify playlist assembly, and an interactive SVG family tree. Every published volume is reviewed by a human curator before it goes public, and sources are cited inline.

Is Song Zero accurate?

Each generation passes a dedicated fact-check stage and is curator-reviewed before publication, with sources (audio archives, scholarship, oral histories, label discographies) linked at the foot of every share page. It is an editorial interpretation of musical lineage, not a definitive historical record.

Trace your song's lineage.

// run the pipeline. follow the roots.

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// free to try · no spotify account required