I've discovered some great bands through Audiotree Live
Ask HN: Where do you find new music to listen to online?
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Re: Ask HN: Where do you find new music to listen to online?
#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
That hardly ever works for me. It's either "here's another artist that's like these ones, only more mediocre" or completely crazy ones, like a playlist of the album Ilana (The Creator) by Mdou Moctar, a Berber electric guitarist, where Spotify recommendations are all for Tyler The Creator.
If you need to get in the right frame of mind for Coding here is an albums-only playlist I made that seems to do the trick for me and a few friends - https://open.spotify.com/user/j3elam/playlist/61RNVG9yeQpFBR...
Thanks - I'll check that out.
Re: Ask HN: Where do you find new music to listen to online?
#83Reading Wikipedia articles mostly.
Re: Ask HN: Where do you find new music to listen to online?
#84Bandcamp. It’s awesome for discovering new music. I love exploring weird micro-genres while working, so the discover feature can keep me going for days while going deep into a particular style. 19A0s dreamwave, vaportrap, Chinese traditional vs dubstep, baroquecore - it’s all there! Neither Spotify or Apple Music allow searches by deep genre tags - ‘electronic’ is not enough - or by record label, which is frustrating…
also found this - https://lbl.fm
Oh this is good - thanks for the link!
Re: Ask HN: Where do you find new music to listen to online?
#85Spotify. Their “Discover more artists.” / “Fans also like.” feature has provided me with quite a few interesting bands I didn’t know before. Their curated genre playlists are fantastic as well. I mostly listen to progressive metal / progressive rock and occasionally some electronic music, too. Their algorithms and curated content work well even for those not-exactly-mainstream genres.
I cant find these. Where can they be found? What are the search terms to be used?
The “Discover more artists.” / “Fans also like.” / "Related artists" (the exact name varies depending on the version and client used) feature currently is accessible via individual artist pages.
The curated playlists were mostly recommended to me on the home page in the Spotify desktop client but I suppose you could find them by simply searching for "progressive metal" in that case as well.
Anyway, here are the playlist links if you're interested in those genre playlists specifically:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DX5wgKYQVRARv?si=...
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DX0uqkwkR49kK?si=...
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6dkBTR6Wovn86LEDAmIKdV?si=...
Re: Ask HN: Where do you find new music to listen to online?
#86Online radio and mixes.
NTS and “the lot radio” are in my heavy rotation right now.
Both stations have live DJs usually in 1-2 hour sets, and play a wide variety of music depending on the DJ.
Re: Ask HN: Where do you find new music to listen to online?
#87Aside from community radio stations and major sites like Spotify, you could try looking through slices of the record industry yourself. There's a big list of record labels on Wikipedia that you could read through[0]. They've also sorted by genre if you want to try a more targeted search[1]. Most decent labels will have a big list of signed artists and events going on.
It's been fun getting to know some of the record labels and listening through full albums. If you type in an artist name in YouTube they usually have most of the albums to sample. I've found lots of good artists this way :D
[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_record_labels
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Record_labels_by_genr...
Re: Ask HN: Where do you find new music to listen to online?
#88Spotify. Their “Discover more artists.” / “Fans also like.” feature has provided me with quite a few interesting bands I didn’t know before. Their curated genre playlists are fantastic as well. I mostly listen to progressive metal / progressive rock and occasionally some electronic music, too. Their algorithms and curated content work well even for those not-exactly-mainstream genres.
That hardly ever works for me. It's either "here's another artist that's like these ones, only more mediocre" or completely crazy ones, like a playlist of the album Ilana (The Creator) by Mdou Moctar, a Berber electric guitarist, where Spotify recommendations are all for Tyler The Creator.
Thank you for bringing Mdou Moctar to my attention. Holy crap, that is one hell of an album, it's been on constant repeat since yesterday and I just can't stop listening!
Re: Ask HN: Where do you find new music to listen to online?
#89Weirdly, I've found TV shows to be a great place to find great artists.
Even weirder is that American Dad got me into loads of bands, from My Morning Jacket to Wax Hang to These Kids Wear Crowns. I can name a handful of acoustic artists that I got into thanks to Netflix shows like Bojack Horseman, Queer Eye, Jessica Jones, and Final Space. I also watch wrestling from time to time, and the WWE often use some good songs when promoting PPV's or building promos.
The next time you watch TV and you hear a song you like, look it up on your phone or Shazam it. You'll probably find a ton of other songs by that artist/band that you like too.
Re: Ask HN: Where do you find new music to listen to online?
#90Currently - Spotify 'Discover weekly' mostly (there are some weeks that they match my taste poorly, but sometimes I find something that really suits me)
Also - youtube. I'm a big fan of XMA Tricking and I love watching Tricking Samplers of people - they have very often cool soundtracks.
Before spotify I was sing Hype Machine - I think it's still worth trying it out. I've found many artists before they become mainstream ones there - totally recommend it.