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Re: How to Find New Music

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Post by ta999999171 »

cm2187 wrote: post #194
dorian-graph wrote: post #87

I would add: - Radio stations, especially triple j [1] and SomaFM [2] - Hype Machine [3] with Plug (macOS) [4] - Similar artists (e.g. on Last.fm [5]) - Other artists on the same label (e.g. Ghostly [6]) - Wander through a record store - Search for one of your favourite songs and see what other user's playlists it's on - YouTube chanels (e.g. David Dean Burkhart [7]) - Bandcamp—just wander around, and also check out…

In the old days there was a service offered to radio stations, they were sending them regularly large curated compilations CDs of the latest potential hits. You could find these CDs on torrent websites and usenet. There must be something similar today.

There is - Google/YT promotes Lil Yachty on the frontpage and takes him from xxxK views to a million at a whim.

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Post by renjimen »

Intermernet wrote: post #188
usuallymatt wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Came here to say 6Music too. It's an absolute goldmine and I've discovered some great stuff on there (Nils Frahm, Hannah Peel, Anna Meridith, Erland Cooper, Big Thief). I'm more into contemporary instrumental stuff these days but enjoy other genres, too. I usually listen to Mary-Anne Hobbs, Tom Ravenscroft, Guy Garvey, Cillian Murphy whenever he's on. Which DJs do you recommend on there?

I recently discovered Nils Frahm, the day after he performed live in Sydney. Now I have to wait for him to tour again!

He's great live - well worth the wait :)

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Post by Zealotux »

plop_ wrote: post #216
gfxgirl wrote: post #198

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No radio stations have ever played the music I'm looking for so no, this doesn't work for me at all. The majority of stations play top 40, or top R&B/Urban (no idea what the PC description is), top country, class rock. Maybe if you live in LA or NYC there are some other stations with more eclectic selections like say KCRW in LA but I have no interest in what they play.

I find FIP to have a pretty decent selection of music (clearly not top 40 only). https://www.fip.fr/

I've discovered so many great artists through FIP, the greatest thing about this one is the themed channels, you're almost guaranteed to always find something good to listen to.

Re: How to Find New Music

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Post by paulcarroty »

chrisseaton wrote: post #217
gfxgirl wrote: post #198

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No radio stations have ever played the music I'm looking for so no, this doesn't work for me at all. The majority of stations play top 40, or top R&B/Urban (no idea what the PC description is), top country, class rock. Maybe if you live in LA or NYC there are some other stations with more eclectic selections like say KCRW in LA but I have no interest in what they play.

> Maybe if you live in LA or NYC there are some other stations with more eclectic selections Do you know that you can get radio stations over the Internet? It doesn’t matter where you physically live.

And it's much more interested to hear station from locations you never been :)

Recommend to try https://www.radio-browser.info

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Post by erfgh »

rapnie wrote: post #202
pmoriarty wrote: post #7

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 th…

Isn't the stuff on YT mostly unofficial uploads where the artist doesn't benefit, whereas with e.g. Spotify at least a couple of pennies (though very little still) are paid to them?

They might be unofficial uploads but YT can still find the artist and credit him.

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Post by coldtea »

spookthesunset wrote: post #144
Uhhrrr wrote: post #67

Rather 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…

Sounds like every one of our tips could all be automated into a.... recommendation engine. Almost trivially...

And yet all recommendation engines have historically been crap

Re: How to Find New Music

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Post by clSTophEjUdRanu »

hammock wrote: post #167
clSTophEjUdRanu wrote: post #112

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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

I get what you're saying but how does that help with small name or indie artists like Blank Banshee or Trevor Something for example?

What you're suggesting is definitely feasible with the larger acts that have been around and have been thoroughly psychoanalyzed.

Re: How to Find New Music

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Post by fbelzile »

Angostura wrote: post #211
gfxgirl wrote: post #198

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No radio stations have ever played the music I'm looking for so no, this doesn't work for me at all. The majority of stations play top 40, or top R&B/Urban (no idea what the PC description is), top country, class rock. Maybe if you live in LA or NYC there are some other stations with more eclectic selections like say KCRW in LA but I have no interest in what they play.

If you are in the UK, try BBC Radio 6 Music. Or if you have a VPN (I assume its not available from outside the the UK) https://www.bbc.co.uk/6music

Similarly, in Canada we have CBC Radio 3 which plays pretty good indie music: https://www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-music-playlists/56-cbc-radio-3

There are other CBC Music playlists that are surprisingly good too: https://www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-music-playlists

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Post by jpbutler »

aloukissas wrote: post #147

By 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…

A lot of the college radio stations have HD2 streams which are really good, too:

XPN2: https://xpn.org/xpn-programs/xponential-radio

KCRW Eclectic 24: https://www.kcrw.com/music/shows/eclectic24

Re: How to Find New Music

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Post by severak_cz »

My sources for new music are:

- YouTube autoplay (althought this leads sooner or later to Blue Monday)

- some youtube channels (NewRetroWave, Harakiri Diat, My Analog Journal, Anatolian Rock Revival Project)

- web based hobbyist radio stations (https://anonradio.net/, https://tilderadio.org/, Soma FM)

- songs shared by my friend on social networks and various websites

- shared playlist of tilde.town - see http://tilde.town/~severak/town_radio.html (this player is actually my work)

- sometimes even mainstream radio and TV

- another one is tuning some random radio at WebSDR, but after that you have to be detective to get song name

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