How to Find New Music

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Post by garretthenry » Thu, Jan 30, 2020, 6:50 PM UTC

How to Find New Music
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Re: How to Find New Music

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Post by zerr » Thu, Jan 30, 2020, 7:18 PM UTC

FM Radio

Re: How to Find New Music

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Post by jedimastert » Thu, Jan 30, 2020, 7:23 PM UTC

zerr wrote: post #2

FM Radio

Reeeeeeally depends on your area, unfortunately. For instance, where I grew up there were 3 christian rock stations and exactly zero jazz stations.

Re: How to Find New Music

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Post by lostgame » Thu, Jan 30, 2020, 7:24 PM UTC

zerr wrote: post #2

FM Radio

Eww. Unless you can find yourself an independent station that actually plays something outside of the top-pops, please, please, count me out.

In every Uber and/or cab I end up taking, I ask them to turn the FM radio off.

The jazz and classical stations are okay, but then the commercials completely ruin the listening experience - especially for 'chill out' genres like the above.

Word of mouth from friends - Spotify or Apple Music playlists, these are great ways to find new music. What's on popular radio stations generally just annoys my friends and I.

Between the terrible selection of music, spotty audio quality, and ads, there's never been a worse time to pick radio.

Re: How to Find New Music

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Post by bwanab » Thu, Jan 30, 2020, 7:25 PM UTC

For my taste, it’s been Radio Paradise for a long time.

Re: How to Find New Music

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Post by sgw928 » Thu, Jan 30, 2020, 7:27 PM UTC

NPR's All Songs Considered (https://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/) has New Music Friday every week, available through podcasts.

Re: How to Find New Music

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Post by pmoriarty » Thu, Jan 30, 2020, 7:27 PM UTC

I'm surprised this article doesn't mention youtube, which is a major way of finding new music for me.

Not only can I find new music through videos that youtube selects as related to ones I like, but listening to playlists that contain music that I like is another great way to find new music, and so is listening through the other music posted by people who post music that I like. And then, of course, one always has the option to search for favorite genres and artists, which should turn up a bunch of new music.

Listening through Soundcloud's playlists is another possibility, though Soundcloud's discoverability has really suffered since they got rid of groups.

Then there are genre-specific subreddits, like r/psybient, r/EBM, r/industrialmusic, etc.

Connecting with people with similar tastes is probably the best way, though.

Re: How to Find New Music

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Post by lostgame » Thu, Jan 30, 2020, 7:29 PM UTC

Word of mouth from friends is number one. As a DJ, I used to live by this. I wouldn't go hunting on BeatPort, I'd just find what friends were listening to and try to explore from there. 90% of the time it went awesome.

Other than that - Spotify and Apple Music both, at this time, have excellent playlists and recommendations - as far as I've found, in my extensive use of both platforms.

I prefer Apple Music, for no particular reason other than I've been using the iTunes/iPod ecosystem since 2004-5, and thusly my library contains all the music I've already ripped/downloaded.

Re: How to Find New Music

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Post by rbongers » Thu, Jan 30, 2020, 7:30 PM UTC

I love to use rateyourmusic for this. It is great for finding related artists and for exploring new genres.

Re: How to Find New Music

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Post by Swtrz » Thu, Jan 30, 2020, 7:31 PM UTC

daily.bandcamp and their weekly radio show is pretty huge for my discovery along with a mishmash of npr, kexp, bleep, reddit, brooklyn vegan and nts radio