I started a Facebook group called New Music Only. Nothing older than a fortnight is allowed. It allows others to share brand new music they haye found and it forced me to go to YouTube and start hunting for recently uploaded music so I can supply material for the group.
this post was submitted on 23 Oct 2024
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I've been paying for a Pandora subscription for about a decade. Worth it. (Piracy is a service problem.)
Their recommendations for similar bands, auto play, and making stations from a band or song has let me discover so much music over the years.
Formerly through TikTok and YouTube, but now only SoundCloud (especially through Daily drops) and Bandcamp.
I just listen to a lot of Triple J
Talk to other music nerd friends, sift through the algorithmic recommendations of spotify/ whatever, browse music forums that match my tastes, use a song identifier to catch random ones in public...
There are lots of ways to find new tunes in 2024. I mostly listen to albums rather than individual tracks so hearing one good song usually leads to several from the same album/ep/lp
Theuppermostinlife curates a bunch of music they like, and I share some of their taste so that's where I get a bunch of new stuff from.
Mostly through movies/tv shows or sometimes NPR Tiny Desk
I suppose it depends on your tastes, but I read Pitchfork reviews and check out the artits on Spotify. I do not limit my tastes to one genre, so that makes it more interesting when exploring. I'll also leverage the Related Artists section of an artist's page if I find a new artist that I like.
Youtube nprs tiny desk concert. Got so many banger musicians and GREAT music.
Through my Apple Music βNew Musicβ weekly playlist before I canceled my subscription. It does a good job so long as you actively love and dislike tracks.
Now I have a local library that syncs with last.fm for every play and you can discover new music and artists through there.
Iβm no longer on it but instagram was actually a great way to discover new artists. Seems that meta will be a significant player in the music industry (major UMG deal) soon as well so who knows whatβs coming there.
Community radio, my kids (and they find music through me too), YouTube music recommendations, opening bands at concerts, and sometimes NPR.
A friend recommended pitchfork yesterday to me. Haven't gotten around to it though
youtube shuffle works great, its truly random, give it a try.
There's been a decent amount of activity at [email protected] and the music is always all over the place. Popular music, obscure music, non American music, pretty much everything depending on the day.
Just contributed myself, and subbed. Always looking for a good jam after a good smoke.
Always nice to have more music in the rotation, thanks for posting!
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I really don't care how Kanye does anything.
Different pronunciation. Kanye's ye is "yay" while the plural second person pronoun "ye" is pronounce like "Yee"
I don't know wwhat that means
Are you Irish? Those are the only people I've heard use "ye" for the plural "you". Which is a shame, because it has a nice ring to it. Ye and Y'all are like yin and yang
It's a joke, he changed his name to Ye
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I have a large list on bandcamp that I follow to try and stay up with as many releases as I can, also following relevant genre "tags" on there to get recommendations from artists I may not know about. The genre tags can be hit and miss though due to artists often being unable to tag their work properly.
I'll also listen to shows on SoundCloud and will search out tracks and new artists I hear on there. I'll also occasionally check the Juno charts if I have run out of new music to listen to and in the last year started building up a follow list on Spotify to check new releases there that I may have missed from all the other avenues.
It's a shame Bandcamp killed RSS
Despite being aware of it for a quarter of a century I have never used RSS although I probably should.
Bandcamp is slowly getting worse but depending on your core genre interests for me it is still by far the best choice.
Bandcamp's the best of a bad lot: no DRM is a big deal. When they had RSS they were nearly perfect.
Pretty much. They still run bandcamp Friday too when the artists get all the money for sales so I generally stack up my wishlist and try to make my purchases on that one Friday a month.
RSS is so handy, it's a shame it's not as supported as it used to be. I used to read a ton of webcomics, not all of them with consistent release schedules, some of them on social media sites I don't use much, and RSS was how I kept track of them all.
Sorry, but Spotify Discover Weekly of course.
And I also always have Shazam ready to go for when out and about.
I don't use Spotify anymore, but I miss Discover Weekly. When it missed, it really missed, but I still found a lot of artists through it.
Spotify daylist (search for it). Better than discover weekly imo, and changes multiple times during the day.
Didn't know, thx for that. I was complaining about discover weekly cause it's too long between refreshes.
I just started using the AI playlist as an alternative. You can give prompts "Like this playlist, bands I never heard" or "New bands only". The 2-3 times I've used it worked alright, the songs were quite fitting the prompt. I just didn't hear any bangers in there so I don't know what to think about it.
I follow a bunch of hash tags on Mastodon.
I subscribe to the digital stream of radio stations through my podcast app. WFUV out of New York City, WXRV out of I don't know where, some random station out of Sydney, Australia I stumbled on that has an EDM DJ on at the same time I'm waking up on the weekends.
I also have Spotify, but I tend to get better recommendations from real human DJs at radio stations.
A simple combination of Spotify, searching for recommendations, as in "artists similar to _____," checking out AllMusic for a brief overview and maybe which album to start with.