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How to Find New Music
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#142In addition to some of the sources mentioned in this HN thread, I let myself be spammed (bacn'd?) by various physical music stores that have a focus on music I like.
Also, more applicable to electronic music perhaps, listen to live sets / radio mixes by artists I like.
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#143I usually use a website Sputnik Music. Once every couple months I look at their charts for best new releases, and listen to a snippet of each new album on Spotify and just work my way down. I usually end up with a couple new artists/albums to listen to each time. It’s pretty time consuming but it’s how I’ve found almost all my music the last few years.
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#144Rather 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...
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#145Earlier quoted context omitted.
win96@H+ mail.ch ; switch chem abbreviation for the subatomic particle it represents. https://github.com/WhatCD/Gazelle I'm wondering how they make their similar artist connections, tried looking through the code but only found code pulling from a DB rather than how they generate the db.
It was a manually created list of similar artists weighted by users up/down votes on each entry, as I recall. Linked above but in case you don't see, have a look at https://rippy.site
Awesome, thank you.
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#147By 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 radio station in the US. I've been a member since before it became my local radio station. Couple other notables are The Current (KCMP) and KEXP.
The other big (meta-) source is surrounding myself with people with similar (or not so similar, but still interesting) music tastes. I've discovered a TON of music like this.
Yes, I've discovered a few things from algorithmic recommendation systems (e.g. spotify). But: (a) the quality of the recommendations hasn't been even close as good, and more importantly (b) there is zero emotional connection (i.e. like saying "oh, this is the band that Eleni showed me when we were camping in Yosemite").
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As a listener of Triple J's actual radio content; I think it's become stale and more "mainstream" in recent years however their online stuff: Unearthed, and Double J are great.
Triple J's Like a Version program/segment is also good for discovering new artists/songs. Live performances of one or two songs, with a cover[1] NPR Tiny Desk Concert[2], BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge[3], KEXP[4] and Mahogany Sessions[5] are also good for similar reasons. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KC_9ZVpXZiQ [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mi6uRT7PxTQ [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTuLDimhKaY [4] https…
KEXP is the best radio station in the US. Jason's departure from the am show is a big loss, but it still kicks ass. Also, a great part of the LA community, year-round.
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#149I've been subscribed to Google Play Music for years now, mainly because I'm still on the intro $8.99/month rate. Finding new music on Play is pretty difficult, occasionally, some of the playlists do surface artists I've never heard of before.
So been resorting to a few different ways to find new music.
When I use to live in Boston, I would check the gig calendars of the places I loved going to. They tended to be smaller venues where more unknown artists played. I remember once seeing Imagine Dragons as a support at the Brighton Music Hall. Boston is full of wonderful small gig venues.
Now, when I visit different cities and places, I'll follow the venues on FB so I can easily see the gig calendars. I pretty much use FB as a bookmarker for venues and bands now.
Also, I recommend a cool site called Indishuffle, it's curated by a bunch of humans around the world (I believe).
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#150By 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…
+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.