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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?
#92I look at the university radio station playlists: https://www.earshot-online.com/charts/citr.cfm some schools still have these.
All of those bands will be on bandcamp or youtube, like Devours: https://youtu.be/6klgNfSsmoM or Orville Peck: https://youtu.be/q3esGD6lcMM
Re: Ask HN: Where do you find new music to listen to online?
#93Earlier 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.
You should check out Tinariwen https://youtu.be/WcqlOq1cjjc
I really recommend Aza (Tamazight influence from the Atlas Mountains of Morocco). I've seen them live a bunch of times. (I attended this particular performance!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5C1u_MFahhw&list=RDuvS_fSfW2...
Re: Ask HN: Where do you find new music to listen to online?
#94Jamendo is a good platform. It has copyright-free music from talented musicians, like good talented artists. This means you can download songs for free and even use them in your online videos only if you don't monetize them. You can buy licenses as well, if you need songs for your commercials or whatever. Also, they pay artists decently. My band has profited from Jamendo in the last 3 years and we were able to pay for our last 2 albums with the money coming from there.
Re: Ask HN: Where do you find new music to listen to online?
#95To find related artists of usually similar genre it's good to look at the producers of an album and then go look at what other artists they produce
Re: Ask HN: Where do you find new music to listen to online?
#96NTS.live
online radio - great djs if i hear something i like, i look into the playlist to find the artists
Re: Ask HN: Where do you find new music to listen to online?
#97NTS.live online radio - great djs if i hear something i like, i look into the playlist to find the artists
I love the Do You!!! show. Great recommendation.
Re: Ask HN: Where do you find new music to listen to online?
#98https://wfmu.org/ - listener sponsored, free format radio out of Jersey City, New Jersey, USA. volunteer DJs are all amazingly informed about the music in their collections. days and days of archives to listen to, as well as online-only streams. highly recommended.
Re: Ask HN: Where do you find new music to listen to online?
#99Spotify. 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 use Spotify but something I do not enjoy about their playlists is they redefine genres. I noticed that all of their house genres are filled with auto-tuned singers and cheap sounding music (chainsmokers, swedish house mafia). This isn't the kind of house that is played in clubs or is remotely reflective of the genre. You have to look for things like "housewerk" to find actual music that reflects the state of the art in this space that djs themselves enjoy listening to.
The same thing has happened with some rock genres, I've seen Spotify build playlists of pop bands who've taken the image/art of a hardcore/heavy rock band to create this really confusing situation where you are expecting a raw rock sound but you get a heavily produced pop sound.
Re: Ask HN: Where do you find new music to listen to online?
#100Bandcamp. 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…
You actually can search Spotify by record label, but it's super unintuitive and I can't remember how to do it. Maybe give their docs a quick search? It's basically a hidden feature. edit: ok maybe not so unintuitive after all, try label:"ghost box" then look at the albums.
You can also filter by additional metadata, like year:2019 - I often use that to narrow the results for very large labels down to more recent releases.