Favorite ways of discovering music?

[mixyguy2]

Yeah that's not happening. Hurts is a fraud. KC annoys me in the same way NE annoyed me: they win often despite themselves because the other team hands it to them.

[mjolnir]

i listen to some internet radio stations and then cross-reference the playlists with YouTube to keep on listening or whatnot.

[VOODOO U]

Yeah that's not happening. Hurts is a fraud. KC annoys me in the same way NE annoyed me: they win often despite themselves because the other team hands it to them.

I wouldn't say the Bills handed KC any victories. They had close and exciting games.

[funky lime]

Spotify's suggestions have been pretty good to me. I go to an artist I like, and either click one of the "Discovered on..." playlists, or browse the "Fans also like..." section.

Then of course there's just asking folks what they like lately. Hang out with interesting people and you'll inevitably get recommended some interesting media.

Incidentally, I tend to find music I really like when I'm not actively searching for it. For instance, if I'm hanging out with friends playing poker or something, and just put on one of those playlists as passive listening, I find at least one cool song/artist that is new to me almost every time.

Also I absolutely love all kinds of video game soundtracks, and have discovered some really cool artists just by playing new games, especially the more indie ones.

[Bunny_boy]

Magazines / websites , mailing lists, late night Radio 3


Edit: I suppose actual favourite ways are:
Being involved in a musical community
Going to gigs multiple times a week
Club nights
Getting mix tapes from people
Fanzines

[Bunny_boy]

Also I absolutely love all kinds of video game soundtracks, and have discovered some really cool artists just by playing new games, especially the more indie ones.

Like Berlinist (Gris, Neva)?

[bermudagold]

I've had some success with this...quantifying buzz through blogging traffic from webcrawling...music went from an access to distribution problem for creators, ...to an access to trusted/valuable curation problem for consumers

https://hypem.com/popular

for instance one day the first entry was Brenda Fassie - Vul'indlela...I had known about this song for decades, but I bet the vast majority of their users have never heard that record in their lives

[jthekidd427]

I just recently went through all my favorite rap songs to find what they sampled on whosampled… its been a nice journey adding classics I’ve never heard to my playlist.

[harryupbabble]

1. public library

2. music store (used cds)

3. word of mouth

4. loud music coming ftom parked or passing cars
discovered nirvana`s "come as you are" and led zeppelin`s "heartbreaker" that way, and many other songs

5. ultimate classic rock website (lately)

6. guy playing guitar in locker room during lunch break at work
discovered stairway to heaven and greensleeves that way, and a few other songs

7. being in other people`s houses, babysitting, housesitting, etc
some have huge collections, greatest hits, etc

8. parties, rarely go to them

9. college radio

10. youtube

11. elevator

12. movies, documentaries

[harryupbabble]

13. rock concerts, not many, usually the rockers are not in their prime anymore, disappointing, david bowie for example
i avoid crowds these days
shooters, terrorists, they target crowds

[Ghostwave]

I listen to (and have supported) SomaFM Radio. https://somafm.com/
I also regularly listen to the Syndae podcast.
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[mjolnir]

yeah, SomaFM is pretty good.

[Bunny_boy]

Forgot about this thread. I'll repost my stuff from the other one here:
BBC radio stations
Radio1: Chart and pop music
Radio1 xtra: grime, dubstep, hip-hop, drum n bass, garage, bassline, etc (um, might be showing my age with some of those genres...)
Radio2: old stuff
Radio 3: classical during the day; experimental / avant-garde at night
Radio 6: indie, rock, etc
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/help/quest ... ide-the-uk

For those outside the UK - as the BBC is publicly funded it doesn't need to appeal to lowest common denominator stuff.

https://www.thewire.co.uk/home/
Hip-hop, jazz, noise, rock, electronic, dub, etc

https://www.resonancefm.com/
Loads of different styles

https://thequietus.com/
Covers loads of different genres

https://www.factmag.com/
Mainly electronic, but does cover artists that fall just outside that orbit as well.

The Guardian's music section covers quite a lot as well
https://www.theguardian.com/music

Record labels / distros
https://warp.net/
https://bleep.com/
https://hyperdub.net/
https://gondwanarecords.com/
https://igetrvng.com/
https://deathwishinc.com/

And of course
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[AsPeeXXXVIII]

Bandcamp Discover and the occasional YouTube recommendation.