Bandcamp. It has been mentioned by others but it bears repetition. From the curated articles to following different labels/artists, it is an incredible resource. I take comfort also knowing they are artist friendly.
This.
How to Find New Music
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#112Rather 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.
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#113As a music consumer for years and blogger in the blog house days.
For me -
Electronic + Dance - Resident Advisor. Specifically the best of the month features.
Upcoming indie + Pop - Pitchfork (not what it used to be but still a great resource).
More cutting edge upcoming indie + pop - Gorilla vs. Bear (Spotted the likes of Leon Bridges, Charli XCX, Tyler the Creator)
Soundcloud for mixes
Spotify for most listening. Discover weekly and artist radio can unearth some gems.
MixesDB for finding tracks from mixes.
I never listen actual radio.
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#114Anyone remember back on what.cd the related artists "web" system? That was my favorite way to find music, and since the site's demise, I have yet to find a comparable way of discovering similar artists. Luckily back then, I started following many of my favorite artists and labels on social media, which sort of created a new wave of recommendations based on what those artists are talking about. It works, but it's not…
Freeleech was one of my favorite ways to discover new music on What.cd even with a buffer well built I'd go for it anyway just to see if I could find something new I liked.
Yep. Can't replace the passion of music lovers. I posted elsewhere in the thread about finding new favorite music just on a whim when it happens to be freeleech.
Re: How to Find New Music
#115Anyone remember back on what.cd the related artists "web" system? That was my favorite way to find music, and since the site's demise, I have yet to find a comparable way of discovering similar artists. Luckily back then, I started following many of my favorite artists and labels on social media, which sort of created a new wave of recommendations based on what those artists are talking about. It works, but it's not…
Every Noise At Once [1] has a nice web of genres and artists to check out. From their description: Every Noise at Once is an ongoing attempt at an algorithmically-generated, readability-adjusted scatter-plot of the musical genre-space, based on data tracked and analyzed for 3,883 genre-shaped distinctions by Spotify as of 2020-01-30. The calibration is fuzzy, but in general down is more organic, up is more mechanical…
I came here to say this. It takes a few minutes to understand what you're looking at, but once you dig in, it's a phenomenal way to discover new music. The auto-generated Spotify lists linked from the top are awesome.
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#116I really wish Apple Music just had a list (station? Whatever) I could listen to that showed me music I’m likely to enjoy based on the thousands of songs I have ‘liked’ in my library. I was disappointed to find that didn’t exist when I signed up. It’s what I was looming forward to the most.
It does. Go to the "For You" tab, and pick "New Music Mix" I don't understand why this algorithmic playlist gets such a bad rap. On any given week, I've only heard about about 15% of the artists on the list at most; I usually find 2-3 new artists whose catalog I want to sample, one or two tracks from artists I already like but have new albums I didn't know about, everything else maybe not a keeper but definitely list…
Thanks! I had no idea that was there.
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#117Word 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 pa…
Spotify's (non-algorithmic) New Music Friday, (algorithmic) Release Radar and Discover Weekly playlists have all been amazing for finding music for me.
I had found their best offerings to be their end of year wrap-ups: “The Ones that Got Away” in 2017 and “Tastebreakers” in 2018, and was disappointed they chose to end 2019 with “Music of the decade”, which was all songs I already knew.
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#118I 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…
Also note that if you're in Australia with DVB-T reception, Double J and Triple J are on the ABC transponder at ~256kbit MP2 which is the highest quality stream you'll get.
(ABC tech, please provide 320kbit AAC, please?)
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#119...is this advice people actually need?
Re: How to Find New Music
#120Anyone remember back on what.cd the related artists "web" system? That was my favorite way to find music, and since the site's demise, I have yet to find a comparable way of discovering similar artists. Luckily back then, I started following many of my favorite artists and labels on social media, which sort of created a new wave of recommendations based on what those artists are talking about. It works, but it's not…
I run https://www.music-map.com which might be similar to what you describe? I have never seen (or heard about) the what.cd related artists web. Let me see if I can find a video or images about it...
You can browse a snapshot of what.cd here: https://rippy.site/