I used to discover a lot of new music on Youtube, actually.
If you watched a music video you liked, the algorithm recommended related stuff, but also threw you a curveball with <1000 views once in a while.
I stumbled upon a lot of great bands that way.
But nowadays, 3 videos in it’ll all be AI slop, so I’m open to new ideas and willing to pay for a service, too.
YouTube music is still pretty good for me, the canned playlists sometimes turn up good bands I’ve not heard of, and recommendations about as good as they ever were, not great but good.
But there is a community radio station here with a variety of shows, a couple are ‘alternative’ and those DJs have good taste and stay on top of new stuff.
Also opening bands at shows, and sometimes at yoga class, oddly.
A mix of BBC radio 6 and recommendations from my cousin who works in the music industry. I can’t give you my cousin’s details, but radio 6 has a great range of music from some of the DJs.
I take the brute approach: get music packs bundling all releases for a day, load the albums into a lightweight player, filtered by genre. Anything sounding nice results in a
beet import.YouTube, I go country by country, from period to period. I even have my own favourite medieval piece of music!
Decided to start paying for Qobuz amd its been a great time so far! Audio quality is top notch, and their focus on exploring individuals/bands albums are very good. Id recommend giving the service a go, they also pay artists a much better share compared to Spotify…
By purchasing new video games.
Like 90% of my tracks in Spotify are videogame soundtracks.
Bandcamp new and notable
Bands I like touring with other bands
Record labels I like put out new stuff
internet radio.
From shows I watch and games I play. I don’t really go out of my way to search for music. If I find something interesting, it’s usually on YouTube.
spotify discover weekly. its been so finely tuned over the years that 90% of them are at least put in my liked playlist, and maybe 50% into my favorites playlist
i used to follow this “greatest _____ album” tournement thing on facebook, but stopped doing that because i dont use facebook anymore
you can also do the 1001albumsgenerator, which will give you a random album a day from the book “1001 albums you must hear before you die”
- Pitchfork and AOTY websites are is usually good. I’ll look at Last FM webpage too on the music tab to see what’s new.
- I’m subscribed to Qobuz and get a daily and a weekly playlist that bring things up that I’d never heard of.
Been a supporter since he started.
Rival Suns
Spiritbox
Kanaan
Love Honey - (Rolling 7s - holy shit is this good!{if you are me, which I am})
Psychedelic Porn Crumpets
Sick Joy
Vance Joy
Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers
Tiger cub
Mammoth
Chokecherry
Ren - (Hi Ren is fucking powerful, watch the video for it and prepare for a wild ride. Earbuds/headset recommended)
Sludgemother
Slomosa
Halestorm
Avalone stone
The Warning
The Glorious sons
Velvet Two Stripe - favourite song is Catch 22
Servo
JPNZGRLS/Hotel Mira (name change)
Bamdcamp daily, people i follow on bandcamp, warez websites and features and collaborations
I do it by playing the long game.
Back in 2007 I embarked on a three year radio production degree, and the costs associated with that, all so I could start my own radio show 18 years later where I get people to suggest songs and I play them. And many of them I’ve never heard of.
I go through my kids’ playlists.
I ask friends and family to make me mix CDs instead of giving gifts.
I listen to local independent radio (Chirp in my case).
I carpool with coworkers sometimes and have them run the aux.
I ask people to tell me what their favorite song is.
I go to concerts early enough to see the opening acts, even if I’ve never heard of them.
And I participate in threads like this.
