Don’t think you can write an article on discovering music without at least mentioning SoundCloud.
How to Find New Music
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#162Massively underwhelming article.
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#163By far, the best way I've discovered new music is through radio. Find a station with producers that you jive with and this will be a treasure chest. I was lucky enough to grow up in Athens (GR), where radio is really, really good. A big disappointment happened when I moved to SF (which, aside of KCSM - a great jazz radio - is a music radio disappointment). I was lucky to come across KCRW from LA, perhaps the best rad…
My favorite "unexpected surprises" station is BBC "6 Music", which might be called "Radio 6 Music" depending on what you use to listen to it. It's streamable worldwide.
I might be a bit biased since I grew up in the UK, but I recommend it highly. And like all BBC radio, no ads!
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#164Earlier quoted context omitted.
+1 to KEXP and KCRW (and KCRW's Eclectic 24). KEXP plays a ton of great music of different varieties of music, some of which, I wouldn't normally listen to.
I only recently discovered KEXP...strangely enough through a random youtube video of a live performance from Austra. I've also had some success with BBC Radio 1 in the past. Radio can be a good source but I still feel music recommendations is something that's gonna be cracked by algos in the future
Tycho also did a really great performance on KEXP a few years ago: https://youtu.be/c_56qQqxvm4
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#165I mainly use Spotify recommendations.
As a someone with highly niche musical preference (Mostly anime and some game music) Spotify seems to give me most spot-on recommendations. Those recommendations tend to be within what I consider as anime/game genre.
YouTube Music tends to provide me recommendation that's a little too broad for my taste; I see recommendation often cover J-Pop songs.
Might be something to do with the difference in categorization of songs.
This might of an somewhat of an outlier case, though.
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#166Rdio used to be my favorite app for music discovery before it got acquired/shut down.
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#167Rather than subjecting oneself to the whims of recommendation engines and random people, I recommend starting with the artists you like: -Find out who they've toured with - this is one of the strongest signals possible -Find out who produced their albums, and check out other albums produced by those folks -See if people in their band(s) have released their own work -Read interviews to find out who their influences ar…
This doesn't get me out of my bubble. I'm a huge fan of cheesy synthwave and would have never known had Trevor Something - Death Dream not been a freeleech pick on w.cd years ago. Curation + association is the key.
The influences does, but what you really need is an engine that recommends bands based on shared influences.
In other words, two bands in totally different genres who both call Led Zeppelin an influence
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#168I just wish spotify would give us an "all songs by this artist" page. Clicking through like 10 albums is tedious especially when they often have 1 or 2 songs in them.
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#169By far, the best way I've discovered new music is through radio. Find a station with producers that you jive with and this will be a treasure chest. I was lucky enough to grow up in Athens (GR), where radio is really, really good. A big disappointment happened when I moved to SF (which, aside of KCSM - a great jazz radio - is a music radio disappointment). I was lucky to come across KCRW from LA, perhaps the best rad…
Agreed. I love The Current. When they play a song I don't like I switch to something else whether it is kexp or another genre. (Sadly, one of my favorite hip hop stations beatbasement seems to have gone away. I still haven't found a good replacement for underground hip hop. Gtronic radio is good but not to the same level as beatbasement).
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#170If learning a new language, it's still amazing how you can find large and well developed music scenes for pretty much any genre you already like, in your target language.